IOTA NanoSolutions Ltd appoints Technical Programme Director and Laboratory Director
1st January 2007
The Board of IOTA NanoSolutions Limited is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Dave Duncalf to the position of Technical Programme Director and Dr. Alison Foster to the position of Laboratory Director.
Prior to joining IOTA NanoSolutions, Dave was a Scientist in Unilever’s Oral Care Group which he joined in 2001. In 2003, he moved to the Physical Sciences Group where he focused on the development of the IOTA NanoSolutions technology internally within Unilever. Previously, Dave worked at Zeneca in Blackley for 4 years where he was the Leader of the Complex Analysis Team within Zeneca Specialties Business Groups. Here he worked across a number of different areas and sectors including biocides, polymers, polymer additives, dyes, inkjets, pigments, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. Dave obtained his first degree in Chemistry and his D.Phil in Low Valent Lanthanide Complexes from the University of Sussex. He also gained considerable post doctoral experience at the University of Warwick where he pioneered the development of ATRP controlled polymerisation with Prof. Dave Haddleton. Dave also worked for a period of time at the Ministry of Defence as an analyst. He is co-author of >30 papers and is co-inventor on >10 published patents.
Alison was also involved in the original Unilever/Liverpool collaboration that led to the formation of IOTA NanoSolutions Limited, developing the technology for use within the Unilever HPC Business. Previous to working on the IOTA NanoSolutions technology, Alison worked on numerous projects as part of the Molecular Science Unit and later the Physical Sciences Group which included polymer chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, mechanistic, HTE, sensory molecules and colloid chemistry. Before joining Unilever in 1998, Alison gained post doctoral medicinal chemistry experience at the University of Manchester, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, working predominantly with anti-cancer drugs. She gained her BSc in Chemistry (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) from the University of Birmingham in the area of fluorinated dyes as part of a joint collaboration with Courtaulds. Alison has also held positions at Rhodia, working on phosphorus flame-retardants, and at the University of Birmingham working on chiral ligands. She is co-author on 4 papers and >10 published patents and has been awarded a number of prizes including two university scholarships and the Bader Prize in Fluorine Chemistry.
CEO of IOTA NanoSolutions, Andrew Elphick commented, “I am absolutely delighted that Alison and Dave have chosen to move on from their respective roles in Unilever and join IOTA NanoSolutions. As co-founders of the company and leading developers of our technology platforms, they both bring an enormous wealth of knowledge and experience to the company. They are taking up important positions within the executive team and will, I am sure, be instrumental in shaping the future success of IOTA NanoSolutions.”
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