Tom is responsible for ensuring that the new tools emerging from the IVCC portfolio, and other essential vector control tools, are available, affordable, acceptable and adopted by the populations of the disease endemic countries. He develops and manages partnerships with manufacturers of vector control tools, national programmes, funders and donors and implementation partners, as well as academia, to support this process.
Tom graduated from Oxford University with a master’s degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry on Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms. He has 30 years’ experience in the chemical industry having worked for several of the industry leaders including ICI, Merck, Rexam and Avecia. Tom has led a number of multinational consortia spanning industrial and academic partners to bring about the development and exploitation of novel chemical technologies targeted at consumer and industrial markets. He focussed initially on chemical and process technology research for speciality chemicals but became progressively more interested in the marketing of technological advances and the introduction of ground-breaking consumer products.
