Our Team
Our consultants are experts in a number of specialist fields, providing intelligent, high quality and forward-looking technical scientific and regulatory solutions to meet your compliance objectives.
Management Team
Alison McCondichie
Finance and Business
Alison McCondichie
Finance and Business
After graduating in Archaeology and History from the University of Glasgow in 2004, Alison initially worked in commercial fieldwork investigations before taking on her first business administration role within a local yachting business.
Dr David Andrew
Technical Director
Dr David Andrew
Technical Director
David is a highly experienced, board certified (DABT) EU regulatory toxicologist with extensive experience in the areas of plant protection, biocides, general chemicals and cosmetic products, gained over 23 years in senior roles in government and consultancy. His experience includes the assessment of data completeness, advice on waivers and testing strategies, dossier preparation and submission, expert witness statements and client representation, classification and labelling, IUCLID, REACH dossier preparation, and cosmetic safety assessment. He has a long-standing interest in the use of non-testing methods, and extensive involvement in the training, development and mentoring of junior colleagues.
Jen Buchanan
Director, Business Affairs
Jen Buchanan
Director, Business Affairs
Jen graduated with an honours degree in Law and Marketing and subsequent professional development included specialist finance and strategy courses at both Henley and Ashridge Business Schools. Over the years she has worked in senior positions for blue chip companies in the fields of banking, telecoms and latterly with her own family business. Jen first joined RSA in 2007 using her experience within strategy, finance and operational management to support RSA's ongoing development.
Liz Macquarrie
Advisor & Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Liz Macquarrie
Advisor & Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Liz joined RSA’s Leadership Team in 2022 following a career in Agrichemical Regulatory Affairs spanning more than 25 years. Her most recent role was Global Regulatory Manager for ADAMA, managing a team of over 50 scientific and regulatory experts. Liz’s experience covers all aspects of regulatory project support to meet business objectives, including the development of regulatory strategies and governance, budgetary oversight, project management including Task Force management and ability to influence decision making.
Dr Mac Provan
Director
Dr Mac Provan
Director
Mac has a wide experience of mechanistic toxicology within the regulatory contexts of Europe and North America. The major industry sectors of interest include Agrochemicals, General Chemicals and within the UK, Pharmaceuticals and more recently Food.
Dr Phil Botham
Advisor
Dr Phil Botham
Advisor
Phil is a member of RSA’s leadership team, providing advice on organisational development and skills recruitment . He was the Global Head of Product Safety for Syngenta, managing a team of over 300 experts in human and environmental safety. He has published more than 140 peer - reviewed papers , is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the British Toxicology Society (BTS), and is also Vice President of the BTS.
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Alison Brammer
Consultant Toxicologist/ Study Reviewer
Alison has extensive practical experience of mammalian toxicology studies. She was a highly experienced multi-disciplinary Study Director with a wide range of experience in the design, conduct and reporting of a range of toxicology and safety pharmacology studies. She is a Study Monitor working with a number of contract laboratories to deliver a range of regulatory and environmental toxicology tests for clients, working as the liaison between the Laboratory and client.
Alison McCondichie
Finance and Business
After graduating in Archaeology and History from the University of Glasgow in 2004, Alison initially worked in commercial fieldwork investigations before taking on her first business administration role within a local yachting business.
Dr Cheryl Scudamore
Consultant Pathologist
Cheryl is a qualified vet and has been a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Recognised Specialist in Veterinary Pathology since 2010. She has experience of pathology in a wide range of species with particular expertise in toxicological pathology and the pathology of genetically modified mouse and ageing mice. She has worked for a range of organisations in academia and industry.
Dr Christine Walter
Consultant Toxicologist
Christine is a regulatory scientist with a keen interest in designing toxicology or regulatory strategies to meet clients' needs, making use of more than 15 years of experience in toxicology and regulatory roles in both the agrichemical industry and pharmaceutical consultancy sectors. Her substantial experience spans active substance toxicology, endocrine disruption, investigative studies and pesticide regulation.
Claire Grant
Consultant Toxicologist
Claire is a regulatory and investigative toxicologist with over 15 years experience working in agrichemical and pharmaceutical industries. Recognised for expertise in toxicology, endocrine disruption, safety pharmacology and study management. She has extensive experience in the design, conduct and reporting of regulatory toxicology packages. More recently, Claire has focussed on conducting endocrine disruption weight of evidence assessments, preparing mode of action analysis and designing strategies to address potential concerns.
Dr David Andrew
Technical Director
David is a highly experienced, board certified (DABT) EU regulatory toxicologist with extensive experience in the areas of plant protection, biocides, general chemicals and cosmetic products, gained over 23 years in senior roles in government and consultancy. His experience includes the assessment of data completeness, advice on waivers and testing strategies, dossier preparation and submission, expert witness statements and client representation, classification and labelling, IUCLID, REACH dossier preparation, and cosmetic safety assessment. He has a long-standing interest in the use of non-testing methods, and extensive involvement in the training, development and mentoring of junior colleagues.
David R Jones
Consultant, Regulatory Pharmaco-Toxicologist
David is a European Registered Toxicologist with over 40 years’ experience. He is a Fellow of the British Toxicology Society and of the Royal Society of Biology. He retired as an Expert Pharmaco-Toxicologist after at the MHRA before joining RSA. He represented the UK in the European Safety Working Party for almost 15 years and was the EU Rapporteur in the ICH revision of the M3, ICH S10, ICH S3 and ICH S11 guidelines.
Diane Bewick
Consultant Toxicologist
Diane has a diverse background in toxicology that spans over 30 years working in the Central Toxicology Laboratories. Practical and Senior Investigatory roles and later as a Regulatory Project Manager with recognised specialism in reproductive toxicology and expertise with data interpretation, report summaries and auditing protocols and reports from CRO’s. As an experienced toxicologist, Diane is well versed with all aspects of Study Monitoring. She is skilled in Project Management, data analysis, problem solving.
Dr Dick Lewis
Consultant Toxicologist
Dick has extensive experience (30 years plus) in industrial and agrichemical toxicology. He held a number of science and people leadership roles with ICI/Zeneca and Syngenta including heading inhalation toxicology, long term toxicology and reproductive and developmental toxicology. Latterly he was the Global Head of Toxicology and Health Science at Syngenta having responsibility for the human safety of crop protection chemicals and traits and led groups in the UK, USA, Switzerland and Brazil.
Graham Reeves
Consultant, E-Fate, Environmental Exposure Assessment and Modelling
Graham has a strong background in e-fate, exposure assessment and modelling gained from over 35 years working in the agrochemical industry. His expertise is in e-fate, environmental exposure modelling (soil, groundwater, surface water) and the preparation of e-fate dossier sections, and addressing feedback from Regulators and preparing responses/waivers. Graham has been an e-fate representative on external working groups, as well as earlier experience as a Study Director for lab and field e-fate studies.
Gill Milburn
Consultant Toxicologist
Gill worked at Central Toxicology Laboratory in inhalation toxicology as well as reproductive and long-term toxicology. She has acted as Study Director, Facility Manager, and Study Monitor in the regulatory toxicology area advising on the design, conduct and interpretation of a diverse range of mammalian toxicology studies. Her work has included regulatory and research studies on agrichemicals, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and food stuffs. She has mentored and trained Study Directors and Study Monitors.
Jason Manton
Consultant Toxicologist
Jason is a board certified and EU registered toxicologist with over 20 years of experience within industry, CRO's and consultancy. His specialism is in developmental and reproductive toxicology, endocrine and general toxicology, read across and QSAR, with experience of compiling risk assessments for general chemicals, agrochemicals, nanomaterials, pharmaceuticals and pollutants.
Jen Buchanan
Director, Business Affairs
Jen graduated with an honours degree in Law and Marketing and subsequent professional development included specialist finance and strategy courses at both Henley and Ashridge Business Schools. Over the years she has worked in senior positions for blue chip companies in the fields of banking, telecoms and latterly with her own family business. Jen first joined RSA in 2007 using her experience within strategy, finance and operational management to support RSA's ongoing development.
Dr Jenny Odum
Consultant Toxicologist
Jenny has 30 years’ experience in toxicology and has a broad range of expertise within toxicological specialities. She is an expert in the field of endocrine disruption and was a member of several OECD expert panels on testing for endocrine disruption. She has written position statements for compound defence. She has been responsible for the scientific and technical integrity, design, conduct and interpretation of a wide range of studies for agrichemical and chemical industry clients.
Dr Jo Kilgour
Consultant Toxicologist
Jo has over 20 years experience in industry and is a recognised expert in the field of inhalation toxicology. Jo is a skilled toxicologist whose early experience as Study Director/Study Monitor formed a strong foundation from which to move into toxicology project management. Her experience covers all aspects of toxicology program design and conduct in drug development from DRF studies and pivotal toxicology studies for FTIM submissions, to life cycle management of registered products.
Judy Knight
Regulatory Affairs Manager
Judy has over 25 years’ experience in the agrochemical industry mostly in Regulatory Affairs as a European Project Manager. She has a strong technical background in field trials, lead discovery, and entomology. She is skilled in writing and explaining scientific findings simply, and in liaison between regulators and scientists.
Dr Karen Roberts
Consultant Metabolism Scientist
Formerly a Senior Study Director at both Syngenta and Central Toxicology Laboratory Karen is involved in regulatory study monitoring, regulatory summary and dossier preparation, and literature searching for RSA. She has a wide breadth of scientific knowledge with particular skills and expertise in the areas of mammalian metabolism and stability, toxico/pharmacokinetics, soil metabolism and stability, nucleic acids, enzyme kinetics and analytical chemistry.
Dr Kevan Richardson
Consultant Metabolism Scientist
Kevan is a metabolism scientist with over 30 years’ experience in supporting the safety evaluation and international registration of agrichemical products and industrial chemicals. He has worked in environmental, mammalian and plant metabolism and in analytical methods leading technical development and contributing to study design, data interpretation and registration documentation. He has also contributed to International Research Projects jointly funded by the Health Effects Institute (USA) and CEFIC (Europe) as well as an ECETOC task force
Kim Travis
Consultant, Toxicology and Environmental Sciences
Kim has extensive experience of developing an understanding of the fate and effects of small molecules in biological systems. His expertise is in understanding and modelling the mammalian kinetics of small molecules, including study design and interpretation, and the relationship to biological effects (desired or otherwise). He has also worked on new molecule discovery projects. Kim has published and presented extensively, and worked on many panels and committees as a recognised expert.
Liz Macquarrie
Advisor & Regulatory Affairs Consultant
Liz joined RSA’s Leadership Team in 2022 following a career in Agrichemical Regulatory Affairs spanning more than 25 years. Her most recent role was Global Regulatory Manager for ADAMA, managing a team of over 50 scientific and regulatory experts. Liz’s experience covers all aspects of regulatory project support to meet business objectives, including the development of regulatory strategies and governance, budgetary oversight, project management including Task Force management and ability to influence decision making.
Dr Louise Marks
Consultant Toxicologist
Louise is a highly skilled scientist with experience in the design, conduct, interpretation and reporting of preclinical safety pharmacology and investigative toxicology studies in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical sectors. Louise has extensive experience in the safety assessment of pharmaceuticals, including the design, conduct and reporting of preclinical regulatory safety pharmacology packages and overseeing the inclusion of safety pharmacology endpoints to repeat dose toxicology studies.
Lynda Farrelly
Consultant Ecotoxicologist
With over 25 years experience in the agrochemical industry, Lynda is an ecotoxicologist with a proven track record in managing environmental risk projects for agrochemical product registration and is able to provide a high level of holistic technical support for regulatory projects to meet business objectives. She has extensive experience in project planning, development of regulatory strategies, risk mitigation and the generation of data for regulatory submissions through GLP compliant reports and presentations.
Dr Mac Provan
Director
Mac has a wide experience of mechanistic toxicology within the regulatory contexts of Europe and North America. The major industry sectors of interest include Agrochemicals, General Chemicals and within the UK, Pharmaceuticals and more recently Food.
Mike Coulson
Consultant Ecotoxicologist
Mike is acknowledged internationally as an expert in the terrestrial invertebrate field with over 30+ years’ experience within the bee, soil invertebrate and non-target arthropod testing and assessment area. He has been heavily involved in the development of bee testing in Europe as a member of SETAC, BART and ECPA. More recently Mark has worked for Exponent, as the Head of Ecotoxicology, and ERM, as the Technical Director of Ecotoxicology.
Nicola Powles-Glover
Consultant Toxicologist
As a PhD qualified developmental biologist Nicola has over 16 years experience, largely within the pharmaceutical industry, specialising in reproductive toxicology, where she spent significant time as a Toxicology Study Director with Astra Zeneca. Nicola can provide expert advice on scientific strategy and positioning of data to achieve the aims of her clients and has supported discovery projects through to regulatory documents for marketing and post-marketing activities. She has extensive experience interpreting reports and literature for regulatory submissions as well as interacting with regulatory authorities. As a result she has a robust knowledge of ICH, FDA and EMEA practices in pharma and agrochemical guidelines, OECD and REACh requirements.
Dr Paul Fowler
Consultant - Genetic Toxicology
Paul can provide in vitro and in vivo genetic toxicology data analysis, project management, screening strategies, data reviews, literature reviews, mechanistic investigations, cancer data interpretation/modelling and experimental design alongside interpretation/analysis of QSAR data. Paul joined the UK Committee on Mutagenicity (COM) in September 2019
Paul Carter
Consultant Toxicologist
Paul is a versatile toxicologist within the pharmaceutical arena and has all round knowledge of all processes involved in drug research and development. He is recognised internationally as an expert in the field of inhalation toxicology/aerosol science. He has 30+ years experience in both CRO and pharmaceutical industries as a study director and study monitor on a range of studies including all delivery routes and species but specialising as an inhalation toxicologist.
Paula Batten
Regulatory Affairs Manager
Paula has over 20 years’ experience working in the agrochemical industry, firstly as a research plant biologist at Jealott’s Hill Research Station before moving into product registration. For the last 13 years Paula has worked opposite the EU and member states as a Regulatory Project Manager delivering active substance and plant protection product dossiers for EU and national registration/re-registration, and managing all aspects of the dossier review with the regulatory agency.
Peter Cotton
Consultant Clinical Pathology and Haematology
Peter has over 30 years experience as a Clinical Pathologist and Haematology Specialist, largely gained over a long career with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, UK. He has significant experience in data interpretation for pre-clinical toxicology studies as well as specialist knowledge of toxicological Clinical Pathology
Dr Phil Botham
Advisor
Phil is a member of RSA’s leadership team, providing advice on organisational development and skills recruitment . He was the Global Head of Product Safety for Syngenta, managing a team of over 300 experts in human and environmental safety. He has published more than 140 peer - reviewed papers , is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the British Toxicology Society (BTS), and is also Vice President of the BTS.
Dr Remi Bars
Consultant Toxicologist
Remi holds a PharmD degree and a PhD degree in Toxicology. He worked for several years in the UK at the Central Toxicology Laboratory of ICI/Zeneca and then as a regulatory toxicologist for Bayer Crop Science in the US and in France. For many years he was the head of a research toxicology group actively involved in mechanistic toxicology and in developing screening tools particularly in the field of endocrine disruption.
Richard Murray-Smith
Consultant, Environmental Risk Assessment
Richard has over 25 years industry experience in the environmental risk assessment of agrochemicals, general chemicals and human medicines. Previously Head of AstraZeneca Global Environmental Risk Assessment he is fully conversant with the technical ERA requirements under EU REACH, EMA and US FDA . He has represented EU pharmaceutical trade associations on environmental risk assessment issues and been an active member/participant in several ECETOC and OECD task forces, SETAC Pellston and DIA workshops . Appointed to UK REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool.
Dr Sandra Allen
Consultant Toxicologist
Sandra has a first degree in Pharmacology, a PhD in Experimental Neurology and 24 years’ experience as an industrial toxicologist, including Head of Regulatory Toxicology and Central Toxicology Laboratory. Sandra has an international reputation as an expert in neurotoxicology with extensive expertise in the design, conduct and interpretation of a full range of toxicology studies. Ranging from acute to lifetime exposures in a variety of species, including method development, novel research and human volunteer studies.
Zoe Karalli
Consultant Toxicologist
Zoe joins RSA with seven years’ experience gained from working in the agrochemical industry, including roles as Dermal Absorption Team Lead and DART Study Manager.