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Dr. Tim Sandle is a pharmaceutical microbiologist, science writer, and journalist. Dr. Sandle is a chartered biologist and holds a first-class honors degree in Applied Biology; a master’s degree in education; and a doctorate from Keele University.

Dr. Sandle has over twenty-five years of experience in microbiological research, quality assurance, and biopharmaceutical processing. This includes experience in designing, validating, and operating a range of microbiological tests including sterility testing, bacterial endotoxin testing, bioburden and microbial enumeration, environmental monitoring, particle counting, and water testing. In addition, Dr. Sandle is experienced in quality risk assessment, root cause analysis, and investigation.

Dr. Sandle acts as a consultant, expert witness, and technical adviser to sterile and non-sterile manufacturing facilities, microbiology laboratories, the medical device industry, and hospitals. Dr. Sandle has also undertaken many technical writing and review projects.

Sarah is the strategic mind behind Dycem Contamination Control’s marketing in the US. With a background in Six Sigma and process improvement, she is constantly refining marketing strategies to effectively reach B2B audiences. Sarah focuses on practical approaches to enhance outreach and engagement efforts. Dedicated to efficiency, she ensures that every campaign is optimized for maximum impact.

Outside of the office, Sarah enjoys pursuing adventure, whether it’s seeking ski trails or discovering new culinary experiences.

Ben is the Business Development Manager at Langfields and has been with the company for over four years. Langfields specialise in the design, manufacturing and fabrication of process plant equipment for the hydrogen, renewable, CCUS, chemical and nuclear industries. They have multiple facilities spread throughout the UK including Salford, Dunfermline, Deephaven, Tamworth, Thurso, Halkirk, Warrington and Worksop. The company are one of the UK’s leading fabricators and help clients with the design, fabrication and manufacture of products such as welded parts for electrolysers, water separator vessels, desalination vessels, reverse osmosis, filtration, hydrogen storage & Process and high pressure process vessels.

Storegga (formerly Pale Blue Dot Energy) is an independent developer of low-carbon solutions including industrial carbon capture, storage, and hydrogen. Storegga has evolved from a consultancy with a flagship R&D project, into a mature international developer attracting global interest for its expertise.

During the last 9 years with Storegga, Tim has developed, led and project managed aspects of the Acorn CCS Project, Acorn Hydrogen Project, Cromarty Hydrogen, Speyside Hydrogen and Hylander Projects. He is a Mechanical Engineer with 30 years of expertise in energy management, energy transition and supply chain leadership with a key focus on brewing and distillation via a range of senior manager roles with Diageo across 15 years and 4 continents prior to joining Storegga in 2014.

Tim thrives alongside inspirational leaders, making rapid decisions in a commercial environment full of fresh challenges, creating value through pursuing the elimination of waste and achieving carbon reduction through efficiency, process innovation and alternative sources of energy. He is a proven business leader in supply operations across the UK, West Africa, Thailand and Australia with a keen eye for strategic and commercial wins.

Alice is Head of Partnerships at Urban Jungle, one of the fastest growing Insurtechs in the UK. Urban Jungle provides home insurance products for the new generation of customers, with the focus on delivering a digitalised journey where cover is simple, clear and fair

Alice leads on Affinity Partnerships at UJ, developing and cultivating multi-year relationships with big brands where we provide a co-branded or white-labelled product. Partners choose UJ for our market leading CX, modern proprietary tech stack and data models, and speed to market

Prior to UJ Alice spent her career in consulting at Bain and KPMG

Andrea is a senior leader in financial services with 17 years’ international experience in the (re)insurance and banking sectors. She’s successfully led local and remote teams focused on claims and underwriting operations; business transformation and enterprise change; IT and information security; service delivery; data management and digitisation; and procurement, supply chain and vendor management. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Flood Re, and was previously COO of Hiscox Special Risks. Andrea has also held senior roles in enterprise risk management, compliance, corporate governance and insurance regulation and supervision in complex international environments. She has served as an executive director for entities in the UK and US.

Hannah Melia works for Citrine as a Product Management Consultant. She has been working in Materials, Chemicals and CPG software for 15 years and has a degree in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge.