Bio_Tech_Division | foodworks

The Bioscience Division is a stand-alone profit centre within FoodWorks. The Division also includes agricultural technology (AgTech). It is the leading edge of our innovation in the following areas:

Animal Health

Lead Specialist: Robert Lindley

Vaccine manufacturing process engineering
Feasibility and design studies
Investment and implementation planning and management

Food & Beverage Bioprocesses

Lead Specialist: John Connolly

Capture of dairy proteins
Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) from animal sources
Bioprocesses for enzyme and other value-added biomolecules from egg and other ag products

Food Processing Systems

Lead Specialist: Geoff Quartermaine Bastin

Planning and build of least-cost manufacturing systems
Integration of equipment
Feasibility, design studies

Controlled Environment Farming

Lead Specialist: Eddie Vernon

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation
Systems integration
Feasibility and design studies
Implementation and project management

John J. Connolly

Managing Director,

Bioscience Division

Bachelor of Science, Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Co-founder of FoodWorks Co. Ltd. 2003
Co-Founder of Bio-Works Technologies AB Sweden 2005

Entrepreneur and senior manager with a focus on business development. He has consulting experience in F&B, Risk Analysis and public- sponsored development. He co-founded FoodWorks and later went on to co-found a Swedish biotech company, Bio-Works Technologies AB, John was formerly General Director of Melchers GmbH, a 200-year old trading company, in Vietnam, and Managing Director of Experience International Inc. in Thailand (public sector development).

Contact: john.connolly@foodworks.ag

Eddie Vernon

Senior Managing Partner,

Agriculture and AgTech

M.Sc. Marketing and Product Management, Cranfield Institute of Technology, (now renamed Cranfield University) England, 1987

Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing, England, 1987

Licensed Inspector of certified seed crops, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, UK, 1984.

B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture, University of Bath, England, 1982

Member. International Society for Horticultural Science

Since 2004 Senior Managing Partner responsible for Agriculture with Foodworks Co. Ltd. In this position he has a wide management and technical role for all our projects.

Contact: eddie@foodworks.ag

For additional information, please contact gqb@foodworks.ag

Bioscience Division

(including AgTech)