Tim Carter
Chief Scientific Officer


Tim holds a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Clinical Biochemistry and a PhD in Clinical Chemistry. He was awarded the Rank Fund Prize for Opto-electronics in 1991 for the discovery of enhanced chemiluminescence, commercialised as the Amerlite® immunoassay system.

He joined Elara Associates in April 1993 to help set up the piezofilm sensor project, founded PiezOptic’s gas sensor business in 1994 and became Managing Director in 2004. Further developments of the piezofilm sensor in immunoassay lead him to found PanOpSys in 2001.

Prior to founding PanOpSys, Tim was a Senior Researcher with the Battelle Research Organisation in Geneva, held product and business development posts with Corning Medical, was International Marketing Manager at Whatman and for 6 years ran the UK operations of a Swiss healthcare business consultancy, Corporate Dynamics SA.

Neil Butler
Chief Executive Officer

Neil joined PanOpSys in September 2004 from Oxford Biosensors where he had led the company as MD from its inception in 2000.

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Steve Ross
Director of R&D

Steve holds BSc and PhD degrees in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a chartered chemist.
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Sonja Johnston
Quality Manager

Joining the Management Team, Sonja will play an important role in structuring the Company’s Quality Management System and ensuring operational compliance.
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