SUSPROC
...creating sustainable processes


The SUSPROC team

Chris Dowle

Chris Dowle
Director of Sustainable Processing

At the Centre for Process Innovation he is managing a portfolio of projects in his role as Director of CPI’s Sustainable Processing Centre (SUSPROC). Susproc is the UK’s leading centre.  Chris has developed it to help companies and organisations test, develop and scale up sustainable processes and energy solutions. This practical and commercial approach enables customers to sustain competitiveness and enter valuable and new markets as quickly as possible...more

Sophie Walton

Sophie Walton
Business Manager

Sophie joined the Centre for Process Innovation in April 2007 as Business Manager for the Sustainable Processing (SUSPROC) team. She manages a diverse range of customers and projects focusing on innovative technologies including batch to continuous processing, process intensification and bioprocess scale-up...more

Sophie Walton

Pete Carney
Business Manager

Pete joined CPI in 2009 as a Business Manager for CPI’s Sustainable Processing Centre specialising in Industrial Biotechnology (IB).  He manages a variety of projects working in industrial biotechnology as well as “batch to continuous” chemistry for a variety of customers, including spin outs, SMEs and large industry...more

Steven Broome

Steven Broome
Business Manager

As Business Manager for CPI’s Sustainable Processing Centre, Steven is responsible for developing commercial opportunities in the low carbon energy sector. On a wider level, he is one of CPI’s main representatives in Europe, having held responsibility for the fuel cell and hydrogen JTI research and development programme and its associated working groups...more

Jerry Cooper

Jerry Cooper
Projects Manager

At the National Industrial Biotechnology Facility (NIBF) Jerry has established a fully operational facility, recruited an experienced development team and manages a busy pipeline of development projects...more

Steve Donegan

Steve Donegan
Technology & Engineering Manager of Sustainable Processing

At the National Industrial Biotechnology Facility (NIBF) Steve is responsible for the initial design and specification of new projects, including interaction with academia, industry and government in UK and Europe to develop scope and secure funding....more

Azhar Juna

Azhar Juna
Development Centre Technical Development Engineer

Azhar joined CPI in October 2005 and is responsible for the initial design and specification of new projects and also for the set-up and operation of the Development Centre...more

Denis Wray

Denis Wray
Bay 12 Group Leader

As a Senior Process Technologist, Denis is instrumental in combining development processes with novel plant designs to provide practical and safe processes with improved performance at CPI...more

Dr. Callum Wilson

Dr. Callum Wilson
Technology Manager

Callum is Technology Manager for the Sustainable Processing (SUSPROC) team based at Wilton. He has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of high profile projects which demonstrate fuel cell and other low carbon energy systems in real world applications. Callum brings with him many years of practical experience of fuel cell engineering...more

Campbell Tang

Campbell Tang
Principal Development Bioscientist

After initially joining CPI in 2008 as a Process Development Scientist in the NIBF team,  Campbell now leads the multidisciplinary Bioprocess Development Team which handles a diverse range of exciting projects embracing algal technology, fermentation development, protein purification and biocatalysis...more

Rosalind Hay

Rosalind Hay
NIBF BioProcessing Team Leader

At CPI, Rosalind began work on the National Industrial Biotechnology Facility (NIBF) developing and commissioning the laboratories and then the pilot plant facility. This has been followed by establishing operating procedures, completing commissioning runs on the new equipment and then delivering customer projects...more

Ruksanna Ahmad

Ruksanna Ahmad
Lab Group Leader (Senior Chemist)

Ruksanna is the Group Leader (Senior Chemist) for the laboratory that focuses on crystallisations, dispersions and emulsions in the Susproc division at CPI. She is involved with several projects that promote technologies that are eco-friendly, incorporate continuous reactions and have small footprints...more