Biofortuna Management Teams
Find out more about the Biofortuna team in these key areas:
Board of directors
Mike Bunce, PhD
Mike is a transplant immunologist with nearly 21 years clinical experience at Oxford and 8 years of industrial experience at Dynal / Invitrogen UK . During this time Mike has consistently developed cutting-edge genotyping and phenotyping solutions for transplant health care scientists. Mike holds a PhD in immunology from Oxford Brookes University, three patents within transplantation science and over 100 publications in the field of immunology. Email: mike.bunce [Email address: mike.bunce #AT# biofortuna.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
Ben Passey, BSc
Prior to setting up Biofortuna Ltd, Ben worked for Dynal / Invitrogen‚ Transplant Diagnostics division (previously Dynal Biotech UK) where he was instrumental in developing and maintaining HLA genotyping solutions such as sequence-specific amplification (SSP) and sequence-specific oligonucelotides (SSO) as well as developing novel microarray technology . He has a BSc in Genetics from the University of Liverpool. Email: ben.passey [Email address: ben.passey #AT# biofortuna.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
David Charvill, BSc
Before co-founding Biofortuna Ltd, David had 7 years R&D experience in developing complex genotyping solutions within Dynal / Invitrogen‚ Transplant Diagnostics division. David specialised in developing and project managing key projects in macro and microarray technologies . He has a BSc in Genetics from the University of Liverpool, and in 2009 will complete his MSc in Biotechnology from Liverpool John Moore’s University. Email: david.charvill [Email address: david.charvill #AT# biofortuna.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
Mark Hurley
Mark is a serial entrepreneur with a wealth of experience of start-up and early stage businesses and is a director of a number of health and life-science companies, whose technologies range from drug development (anti-cancer) through to medical device development (implantable insulin delivery device).
Key staff
Mark Reardon, BSc
Mark Reardon is Biofortuna’s Software Development Manager. Mark is an experienced software developer who previously worked for fifteen years as an independent software consultant in a wide range of public and private sector businesses and services including a large international biotechnology company. Mark brings to Biofortuna a broad hardware, technical and scientific background and has specialist knowledge of Delphi, C# and SQL Server applications which are being applied in our novel software solutions for in-vitro diagnostic products. Mark has a degree in Computer Science from Leeds University. Email: mark.reardon [Email address: mark.reardon #AT# biofortuna.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
Andy Bonner
Andy Bonner was previously Facilities Manager for a major international biotechnology company and comes with a wealth of practical experience in biotechnology operations management and quality systems management. Andy has ten years of direct experience in the production, development and maintenance of in vitro diagnostic biotechnology kits and platforms applied to genotyping and phenotyping. With qualifications in Chemistry, Engineering and Health & Safety Andy has the knowledge to set up, run, maintain and improve specialist production facilities to ISO9001 quality standards. Email: andy.bonner [Email address: andy.bonner #AT# biofortuna.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
Advisory panel
Biofortuna's Advisory Panel reflects not only our core skills in immunogenetics but also the broader aims of the company to apply their skills into adjacent clinical and research areas.
Career Opportunities
Although we have no current vacancies, Biofortuna does plan to expand over the next year in the areas of R&D, Production, Sales, Bioinformatics, Marketing and Product Management; consequently if you are interested in a job with a forward-thinking, exciting employer then we would be pleased to hold your CV and details on file and we will contact you as and when the vacancies develop.
Biofortuna is an equal-opportunities employer that actively encourages and values the contributions of its workforce to create and maintain the best possible products for our customers.