Meet our team . . .
Jennyfer graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science (Nursing) from the University of Ottawa in 2004. She has experience in health care delivery and management in acute care settings in Canada and Internationally as a Nursing Officer in the Canadian Forces. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh with a Master’s in Medical Law and Ethics (LL.M) in 2021, she has worked with the Research Ethics Committee for NHS Scotland and has been Managing Director at EPP since 2023. As GLP Named Operator, Jennyfer has legal responsibility for EPP’s GLP services.
David is a graduate chemist [B.Sc. Hons. (1st class)] and also holds a Ph.D. in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry both from the University of Edinburgh. David commenced his industrial career as an R&D and scale-up production chemist with Avocado Research Chemicals (now Alfa Aesar) in Lancashire, England. David joined EPP in 2002 working firstly as a synthetic organic chemist in the R&D Department and has had various increasingly important managerial roles within the company including that of Production Manager, then QA Manager. David has been responsible for the operational side of the business as Director of Chemistry since 2013. David is an active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (professional qualification, MRSC) and is a Member of the Research Quality Association (“MRQA”).
Bruce joined EPP Ltd in May 2008 as Analytical Services Manager from previous employment at Charles River (previously Inveresk Research) where he spent 20 years as a study director in the agrochemical registration field.
Bruce has conducted over 400 programmes of work in the 5-Batch Analysis and physico-chemical testing area. He has undertaken registration studies on new molecules for multinational companies as well as many studies conducted for off-patent generic molecules.
After graduating from Edinburgh University with an honours degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience (Merck, Sharpe and Dohme) Karen remained at the university to complete her PhD in Natural Product Synthesis. From 2002-2004 Karen worked as a Research Associate at AMRI, Syracuse, NY. Karen joined EPP in 2004 working in the synthetic team before moving into Quality Assurance in 2011 and has been the QA Manager since 2013.
Wullie is one of our Study Director’s in the Analytical Services group. He joined EPP in 2012.
Prior to joining EPP he was a Senior Scientist in the physico-chemical analysis group at MSD.
Hobbies include restoring vintage cars, photography, scootering, and his ever increasing vinyl collection.
Derek has been a Senior Study Director with EPP since 2012.
Sharon joined EPP in 2019 as our Administration Manager with a wealth of admin knowledge and experience.
Working in an ever-changing and busy environment, she covers all aspects of the business day-to day-administration including marketing and communications.
John is one of the Senior Scientific Officers who joined EPP in 2012. He has over 20 years’ experience as an analytical chemist in both the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
John is highly experienced in Mass spectrometry (MS) and heads up the Screening Team.
Eilidh joined EPP in 2010 and has over 20 years’ experience in the CRO sector, having previously worked at Charles River Laboratories. Eilidh has worked as a Study Director on 5-Batch Analysis and physio-chemical studies and took on the role of deputy manager of the Analytical Services group in 2014. Eilidh supports Bruce in the day-to-day management of the Analytical Services group and works closely with all staff to maintain and improve the GLP quality management system.
Eilidh holds a BSc(Hons) in Applied Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde.
Eva joined EPP as an Analyst in June 2024. Her first language is Slovene.
Mary joined in 2023 as a Lab Orderly. Mary’s job entails ensuring our glassware and labs are kept to a high level of cleanliness. In October 2023 Mary commenced as the Deputy Archivist.
Study Director (GLP)
During his student years (bachelor degree 2002-2006) Jurijs participated in an apprenticeship at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (2003-2006).
During and after graduating with an master degree in Chemistry (2006-2008), Jurijs went on to work in research with the Laboratory of Hygiene and Occupational Diseases (2006-2011) attaining over five years of work experience in research, field sampling techniques, and working to good laboratory practice (GLP), in the field of occupational health and safety testing.
Jurijs joined EPP in 2014 as an analyst and since 2016 as a Study Director on studies of various nature: physico-chemical characterisation, 5-batch analysis and ecotoxicology, supporting regulatory requirements for the agrochemical, pharmaceutical and animal health sectors.
Jurijs first language is Russian.
After graduating with a 1st class chemistry BSc from Northumbria University with an integrated industrial placement, he began to follow a career in research and went on to conduct a PhD in the synthesis of functional organic polymer coatings to protect aluminium form corrosion, of which he was awarded in 2022.
Joe joined EPP as a Synthetic Organic Chemist in 2023.
Billy completed his Chemistry degree at the University of Hong Kong in 2001; and completed his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2006 and postdoctoral work in 2008.
Billy joined EPP in 2023, his native language is Cantonese (Chinese) and is able to communicate in Mandarin.
Billy joined EPP as Synthetic Chemist in 2023.
After obtaining a MChem degree in Medicinal and Biological Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Alan stayed at the same university to complete his PhD study in Chemical Biology.
Alan joined EPP Ltd in 2021 and was promoted to R&D Manager in 2023.
Alan is fluent in Mandarin.
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Tel: +44 (0) 131 285 0566
Email: enquiries@eppltd.com
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