Gareth joined Univercells Technologies in November 2021 as Head of Manufacturing and Supply chain and is the Operations Director since January 2023. He and his team ensure the completion of development of our cutting-edge technology portfolio whilst guaranteeing competitive lead-time product supply to the vaccine and gene therapy markets. Since January 2024 Gareth has expanded his role to cover Operations of the Donaldson Life Sciences Bioprocessing Equipment business as a whole.
Prior to Univercells Technologies, he worked for 15 years at the Lessines site of Baxter/Baxalta/Shire/Takeda in a variety of Continuous Improvement, Quality, and technical leadership roles (including Automation, Process Engineering, Maintenance, and CAPEX). Before that, he worked for 10 years in the domains of Process Automation and Advanced Process Control (including process modelling and real-time dynamic optimization) for BP at various sites across Europe.
He holds a Master’s degree in Process Automation (University of Sheffield) and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and BioProcess Engineering (University of Bath).