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Dolomite Appoints Gillian Davis to Strategic Commercial Role (September 2007) Dolomite, a world leader in microfluidic design and fabrication, has appointed Dr Gillian Davis to the position of Commercial Director. In this leading strategic role, Gillian will be instrumental in securing new business opportunities and managing customer relations for Dolomite's microfluidic design and fabrication services. |
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"This is an exciting development for us," said Mark Gilligan, Managing Director of Dolomite. "It reflects the increasing level of interest we are experiencing around the world from instrument manufacturers interested in working with us to bring their microfluidic concepts to market." Microfluidics, also known as 'lab on a chip', is an exciting new field of science and engineering that enables very small-scale fluid control and analysis, allowing instrument manufacturers to develop smaller, more cost-effective and more powerful systems. With lab-on-a-chip technology, entire complex chemical management and analysis systems are created in a microfluidic chip and interfaced with, for example, electronic and optical detection systems.
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 Dr Gillian Davis - Commercial Director |
"I am delighted to welcome Gillian on board. Gillian brings to the company, not only a strong background in business development, but also extensive experience of working at the cutting edge of a diverse range of technical disciplines. Having people on board with a broad technical background is particularly important to a company, such as Dolomite, which offers a service with an extremely wide application base that includes environmental monitoring, clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, nuclear fuels reprocessing and forensic science." |
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In 2005 Dolomite won funding from the UK Department of Trade and Industry's Micro and Nano Technology (MNT) Manufacturing Initiative. This £2m funding enabled Dolomite to establish an excellent microfabrication facility that includes clean rooms, precision glass processing facilities and applications laboratories. In addition to this, Dolomite has managed to attract top quality engineering and scientific staff with strong backgrounds across the broad range of disciplines required for success in bringing microfluidics applications to the market, including; chemistry, biotechnology, control system development, electronics, physics and instrument design and supply. |
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"I am very pleased to be taking on this role," said Gillian."Microfluidics is very much an emerging technology that will impact a broad range of industries. Instrument designers around the world are starting to adopt microfluidics and Dolomite is very much at the forefront of this science. I am confident that I can help Dolomite turn their expertise and market position into further commercial success." |
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