Colin Clarke
(NNL, formerly BNFL) retires in September 2023.
Colin
has been involved with CPACT pretty much since the beginning. BNFL was a founder member, and his first involvement was in
1997/98. Colin was the company expert on remote/instrumental analysis and
became BNFL lead on two of the first phase projects (Project 1 “Use of model
process systems to devise and evaluate improvements in process analysis and
control” and Project 2 “Robust calibration of spectral data, using small data
sets). After a period of time Colin
became the BNFL representative on the CPACT Industrial Management Board (IMB)
and then became the IMB Chair in 2009. His first trip to Ross Priory for the
summer Steering Committee meeting was in 2001 and he continued to enjoy coming
to Ross Priory every year since. Colin’s last meeting as CPACT Chair was at
Ross Priory in June this year.
Colin’s time as CPACT chair has
corresponded with significant growth in the membership of our community and the
broadening of the benefits provided to companies. Colin calmly steered us
through the various discussions that have shaped CPACT over the past decade and
we are enormously grateful for his contributions. We hope that Colin will agree
to remain connected with CPACT in some form or another in future and wish him
well on his retirement from NNL.
Graeme Cruickshank from CPI (main image) will be taking over from
Colin on 1st September 2023.
Graeme is CPI’s Chief Technology and
Innovation Officer and is responsible for supporting the development of
the Technology and Innovation (T&I) culture within CPI, ensuring the
integration of CPI’s full innovation capability as part of the High Vale Manufacturing
Catapult offer.
He originally joined CPI as the
Director of the National Formulation Centre in 2015, where he led the
establishment and management of CPI’s Formulation capability which enables the
UK’s ecosystem of academics, SMEs and large companies to de-risk the
development and scale-up to manufacture of their complex, high-value,
formulated products (with applications spanning foods to pharmaceuticals,
paints to detergents, inks to composite materials).
Graeme joined CPI from Procter and
Gamble where he spent 20 years in a range of product design and technology
innovation roles across a range of FMCGs (e.g. Fairy Automatic Dishwashing products)
and in Corporate R&D developing new product categories. Most recently he
was Global Associate Director for Strategic Alliances and also led the Global
Methods Team bringing more robust and consumer predictive methods for product
evaluation.
Graeme said “I am really excited to be taking
involvement with CPACT to the next level. I have witnessed the tremendous progress
and impact achieved and so it is very exciting to be given the chance to build
on Colin’s efforts and work with the wider CPACT community, to continue to
create disproportionate value from the highly effective grouping”.
We look forward to working with
Graeme.