Albion Chemicals Group has appointed Tim Roberts to the position of general manager of its Manchester Depot, where he will oversee a 70-strong workforce. Phill Ellis has been made general manager at Albion Distillation Services, based at Garston, Liverpool, where he will manage a team of 22 people.
UK printed flexible packaging supplier G&A Healthcare Packaging has appointed Steve Godwin as managing director to support the company's continued expansion plans and sales development programme. Godwin joins the company from Ethiprint, of Derby, where he was operations director for more than 10 years.
Dr Steven Enoch will head the newly established in-house computational chemistry operations at Peakdale Molecular. He joins Peakdale from Cyprotex Discovery, where he played a key role as a chemoinformatician and was part of a research team that developed novel QSPR building techniques.
In support of its continued growth and expansion, pharmaceutical outsource services provider Brecon Pharmaceuticals has appointed Roger Jones to a new role as head of operations for Commercial Packaging. Jones has considerable international pharmaceutical experience in a variety of dosage forms and has spent time working in South Africa. He joins Brecon from ProPharma, of Scotland, where he worked for three years as head of operations. He will use his knowledge and operational expertise to support the development of Brecon's commercial packaging team.
Koen Hellendoorn has joined Avecia Biotechnology as commercial development manager, covering Benelux, Germany and Israel. He was previously director of global technology alliances at Cambridge-based Biovation (part of Merck).
Reading Scientific Services (RSSL) has appointed Dr Laura Marshall to head up the newly formed Clinical Sciences Department. Marshall joined RSSL in 2003, and has many years' experience in conducting clinical tests in medical and commercial environments.
RSSL has also appointed Dr Sarah Kemp to the newly created position of global head of Sensory and Consumer Guidance. Dr Kemp has previously worked for Givaudan and Unilever in the UK. Most recently she has been the director and principal consultant for Kemps Research Solutions.