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Meet our leadership team:

Dr. Christian Dowdeswell

Managing Director

Dr. Christian Dowdeswell is an experienced pharmaceutical services executive with 30 years of experience in the CDMO sector across...

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Richard Castledine

Head of Operations - Alnwick, UK

Richard Castledine is responsible for the overall leadership responsibility for drug product and drug substance operations, projec...

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Gareth Jenkins

Head of Site - Alnwick, UK / Vice President, Science & Technology

Dr. Gareth Jenkins has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical services industry spanning drug discovery, drug developme...

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Martin Wing-King

Vice President & General Manager - Reading, UK

Martin Wing-King has been part of the organization since 2008, initially with Pharmaterials, a company later acquired by Quotient ...

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Eleanor Row, PhD

VP, Global Commercial

Eleanor Row has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and contract research environment working with multinational com...

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Steve Byard

Principal Research Fellow

Steve Byard completed his post-graduate research at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds and has spent more th...

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Heather Tomlinson

Senior Director, Compliance

Heather Tomlinson has over 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical and CDMO sectors and has extensive knowledge of quality...

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Mark Anstiss

Head of Drug Substance Operations

Dr. Mark Anstiss has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical and industries spanning Process Research ...

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Alan McNeill

Head of Isotope Labelling

Dr. Alan McNeill has 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, both within large pharma and CROs, in 14C radiosynthes...

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Polly Foreman

Head of Bioanalytical Services

Polly Foreman is the Head of Bioanalytical Services at Arcinova, A Quotient Sciences Company. Polly has over 10 years of experienc...

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Michael Blackburn

Head of Bioanalysis Method Development and Labs

Michael Blackburn is the Head of Bioanalytical Method Development and Labs at Arcinova, A Quotient Sciences Company. With extensiv...

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Mihaela Totolici

Head of Formulation Development

Mihaela Totolici brings over 20 years of experience in pre-formulation and formulation development to drug product programs at Arc...

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Stuart McDougall

Principal Research Fellow

Stuart McDougall is Principal Research Fellow of bioanalytical services at Arcinova, A Quotient Sciences Company. Stuart has over ...

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Steve Byard

Principal Research Fellow

Steve Byard completed his post-graduate research at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds and has spent more th...

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Hiren Moradiya

Senior Formulation Scientist

Hiren Moradiya is a Senior Formulation Scientist with a strong track record in developing innovative drug formulations. Hiren play...

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Valeria Ciarnelli

Senior Director, Product Development

Dr. Valeria Ciarnelli has over 15 years of experience in pre-formulation and formulation development, in academia and contract dev...

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Thomas Nunns

Director, Drug Development Consulting

Dr. Thomas Nunns is the drug substance subject matter expert supporting the commercial team at Arcinova, A Quotient Sciences Compa...

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Alan Jeuken

Director, Drug Development Consulting

Alan Jeuken has over 11 years’ experience across pharmaceutical contract research and academic settings, including radiochemistry,...

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Jon West

Director, Business Development - Europe

Jon West joined Arcinova in 2024. With extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Jon previously served as the Senior Bu...

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Haewon Chong

Director, Business Development - North America

Haewon Chong joined the company in 2025 with extensive experience in technical sales from previous roles at AmbioPharm, Leinco Tec...

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Simon Whitney

Director, Business Development - UK & Nordics

Simon Whitney has over 13 years of experience in business development and sales in the life sciences sector, and is passionate abo...

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