The Britest Team

The Britest team comprises a group of highly experienced individuals with complementary skills and a strong track record in facilitating effective knowledge transfer, training and deployment of Britest`s tools into organisations.

Mark Talford - CEO

A strategic thinker, Mark retains a chemical engineer's enthusiasm for innovative design and practical solutions. He is responsible for developing and delivering Britest’s innovation strategy, addressing challenges in sustainable whole process design.

Martin Edwards - Senior Innovation Specialist

An organic chemist by trade, Martin has worked across a number of Britest's innovation projects, and is especially skilled at turning ideas into practical qualitative tools and methodologies, especially in the areas of formulation and physical processing.

Rob Peeling - Senior Innovation Specialist

With a professional lifetime spent in operations and engineering research management roles, Rob knows all about the realities of driving excellence out on the line. He is ideally qualified to help organisations define, structure and translate process knowledge and information into process understanding.

John Henderson - Technical Communications Specialist

An experienced industrial chemist, consultant and trainer, equally fascinated by people and processes, John brings bring a personable and flexible approach to technical communications within the Britest community, and in support of dissemination and exploitation activities in our collaborative research projects.  

Emma Maun - Senior Administrator

Emma's organisational skills and tireless commitment to customer satisfaction, acquired in the demanding environment of world class hospitality provision, are put to work ensuring that the administration of Britest's events, meetings, and training goes without a hitch. If you need it, Emma can sort it.