Mike Penman has 40 years experience in managing toxicology, regulatory affairs and information technology within major companies (ICI and ExxonMobil), associated trade associations and, since 2007, Penman Consulting.

With an experimental background, initially working on alternatives to long term cancer testing at the ICI Central Toxicology Laboratory in the UK, he moved to provide toxicological and regulatory information services to the whole ICI Group, and then to specific businesses on Teesside, UK. During this time he was awarded a UK civil honour for “Services to Environmental Safety”.

For nearly 10 years Mike worked for ExxonMobil in the US and Belgium as Senior Toxicology Advisor for Europe, and later as the Technical REACH / GHS Implementation Manager. During this time he worked on the ECETOC TRA exposure model, IUCLID and chaired the REACH Implementation Project responsible for the initial EU guidance on Information Requirements.

In May 2007 he founded Penman Consulting bvba, providing managed service solutions to industry and Consortia on chemical regulation, toxicology and environmental sciences. These services include Technical (toxicology, environment and exposure issues) Product Stewardship, and Regulatory activities.

The team at Penman Consulting has grown and provided pivotal roles in major consortia and SIEFs, steering these through the entire registration process – legal, technical and financial – for hundreds of successful 2010 and 2013 REACH registrations. It has also developed successful strategies and approaches to deal with the subsequent challenges of evaluation and testing complex categories of substances and UVCBs with minimal animal use.

The major consortia Penman Consulting have managed are the Lower Olefins and Aromatic Consortium(LOA), the Higher Olefins and Polyalpha Olefins Reach Consortium (HOPA) and, since 2011, the Hydrocarbon Resins & Rosin Resins REACH Consortium (H4R).

Mike has also overseen a many other REACH and regulatory activities for clients from both regulatory and industry backgrounds.

In managing these activities, Mike has continued his interest in developing expert systems to provide cost effective solutions for the challenges met by businesses and consortia. The latest of these is Active Steward™ which provides proactive product stewardship tools for companies.

As Director primarily responsible for finance, Sue Penman manages the Company’s multinational offices, administration, and finances.

Her early career was in science. When the family moved to Belgium, she gained the CELTA certificate and for some years taught English as a Second Language (ESOL).

Bernardo studied Computer Engineering in Castilla La Macha University (Spain) and has a Masters in Web Technologies.

He has experience as software developer in either back and front end using many different technologies, ranging from C, C++ and JAVA to .NET, Javascript or SQL Server.

In his last position, Bernardo has been busy with Business Intelligence Systems using SQL Server and Power Bi and administrating an ETL in a data Warehouse.

Bernardo joined Penman Consulting in 2021 helping with the population of AsTrack and the automatization of processes.

Gurkeerat is a recent University of Aston graduate, with a BEng in Biomedical Engineering.

With her interest in regulatory affairs within the chemical industry, she joins Penman Consulting as her first step in her career.

In her spare time she enjoys spending time with friends and family and plays recreational sports.

Monia has been with Penman Consulting since December 2017 and works in the Brussels office, providing administration support to the team.

Before joining Penman Consulting she spent 8 years in various administrative positions. Her main interests are foreign languages and cultural exchange.

Anissa joined Penman Consulting in June 2023 as a Toxicologist. She holds a BSc (University of Liege) and a MSc (Catholic University of Louvain) in Biomedical Sciences, with a specialisation in Toxicology. Anissa gained relevant professional experience in the regulatory field at Eurometaux and at the European Precious Metals Federation, as a trainee, and worked at the Cobalt Institute for seven months.

She has a keen interest in Human Health Toxicology and Regulatory Toxicology.

Anissa is passionate about rhythmic gymnastics and loves to travel.

Victoria has over 15 years experience in environmental consultancy specialising in ecotoxicology and environmental fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment. She has extensive experience providing hazard and risk assessments for an array of organic and inorganic chemicals for clients such as regulators, water utilities, chemical manufacturers and waste producers.

Victoria has experience with regulatory affairs such classification of waste as hazardous and experience with the Classification, Labelling and Packaging regulation. She also has project management experience, especially with projects that involve field monitoring and laboratory testing.

Victoria has an MSc in Environmental Toxicology, a BSc in Environmental Science and a Special Diploma in Environmental Management from NEBOSH.

Richard has a BSc (Hons) in Computing for Real-Time Systems and is an Oracle Certified Associate (OCA).

Richard is an experienced software developer, specialising in Object Orientated Design and Coding. Previously he has worked for
companies with a technological or scientific focus.

Since November 2017, he has worked on Active Steward, where he maintains
and extends code written in Java, JSP, JavaScript and CSS.

Ali graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2014 with her Bachelor’s degree in Biology, and a minor in Chemistry. The following 4 years, she tried a different career, working in the accounting field. Wanting to return to science, she attended the University of Birmingham, obtaining her Master’s degree in Toxicology in 2019.

She joins Penman Consulting with interests in general toxicology, eco-toxicology, and reducing animal use for toxicological endpoints.

Tilly Borsboom-Patel joined Penman Consulting in January 2022 as Project Officer for HOPA and LOA.

Tilly studied Chemistry at the Van ‘t Hoff Instituut – Hogere Technische School in Rotterdam (1980-1986) in the evening whilst working in Rijswijk during the day.

She began her career in 1980 with Shell in Production Services measuring the properties of core samples from around the world. After obtaining her Chemistry degree, she started a role developing new additives for automotive lubricants in the Shell lab in Amsterdam. This work took her to the United Kingdom in 1990 and following several different roles she became a Product Steward in 2013 with Shell Chemicals looking after the REACH registrations for the Higher Olefins and related products. In this role, she was a member of the HOPA consortium representing Shell and was Chair of the Technical Committee and the last 4 to 3 years also chair of the Executive Committee. She was also a member of the Technical Regulatory Affairs in CESIO (Surfactants) and lead a CEFIC -CESIO pilot project on Polymers Requiring Registration which included several interactions with ECHA. After 41 years in the industry she is happy to join the Penman Consulting family.

In her free time she looks after her family and dog, is a Guide leader, sings alto in the local choral society and is an active member of the local Panto Group.

Tatiana has a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management from the University of Matej Bel in Slovakia.

Before joining Penman Consulting she spent over 15 years in a variety of industries from telecom, finance, compliance, and regulatory where she held different positions from customer service, to analytics, to management roles.

As for her continuous passion for science over the years, Tatiana is currently studying toward a degree in Biomedical Science.

In her spare time, she likes spending time with her family and dog, traveling, reading, and DIY.

Ed Cemeli is a toxicologist with nearly 25 years’ experience. Ed has worked at Penman Consulting since early 2024. His current line of work involves REACh and agrochemicals.

Before Penman Consulting, Ed was a consultant for nearly 10 years working mainly at Intertek. He was specialized in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry and is experienced in regulatory frameworks such as CLP, cosmetics, detergents and, to a minor extent, biocides. He is a proficient risk assessor. Amongst his most well-known clients there are Unilever, Procter & Gamble and VAX.

Ed was an experimental toxicologist prior to his career as consultant. He spent 10 years in research gaining a PhD in Toxicology (obtained in UK) as well as publishing around 25 research investigations. Ed also has a BSc in Biochemistry (obtained in Spain) and is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English.

Milan is an experienced Systems Administrator and AWS Solutions Architect with expertise in Linux, MacOS, and cloud infrastructure. His work covers automation, networking, cybersecurity, and IT compliance.

He holds an MSc in Cyber Security and Forensic Information Technology from the University of Portsmouth, where he gained hands-on skills in cybercrime investigation, penetration testing, and ethical hacking. He has also published a research paper “An Analysis of Cloud Security Frameworks, Problems, and Solutions”, addressing key challenges in cloud security. In his spare time, he enjoys painting and gardening, exploring creativity outside the tech world.

Susan joined Penman Consulting in 2021 as a Senior Toxicologist with 37 years industry experience working in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical safety sector at Sequani Limited, a non-clinical contract research organization.

She began her career as a Technician within Reproductive Toxicology, studying for an HNC in Applied Biological Sciences. Susan gained experience in both in-life and necropsy, with several years spent as a Senior Technician undertaking all types of foetal pathology examinations on developmental and reproductive toxicology (DART) studies.

Susan also worked as a Study Director for five years, conducting regulatory and GLP-compliant toxicology studies on pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and chemicals, across multiple toxicology disciplines (DART, juvenile toxicology and general toxicology).

During her last 11 years with Sequani Susan worked as a Study Scientist, responsible for the preparation and review of toxicology study reports.

Alex holds a BSc in Applied Zoology from the University of Plymouth and an MSc in Neuroscience from the University of Sussex. Additionally, he recently finished a PhD researching the effects of organophosphates on neuronal function and psychiatric health, at the Open University’s laboratories in Milton Keynes.

His interests range from human health to environmental issues, and is particularly keen to help reduce and replace the use of animals in research. His own work has focused on invertebrate neuroscience, plant protection products, and human health topics. Previous experience includes supporting the UK’s initial COVID-19 response with the UK Biocentre, and investigating potential routes of bovine tuberculosis transmission to cattle with the Zoological Society of London.

Alex joined Penman Consulting in July 2021 as a Regulatory Scientist and works with both the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs team and the Environment team, supporting Penman Consulting’s Only Representative services and consultancy work on REACH compliance issues.

Joanna joins Penman as a Scientific Services Officer with 21 years industry experience working in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical safety sector at Sequani Limited, a non-clinical contract research organization.
Joanna has a MSc in Chemical Technology and worked for over 20 years in the analytical chemistry section as a Senior Scientist/ Study Director undertaking method development, optimisation, transfer, validation, and stability studies to support dosing formulations in related in-vitro and in-vivo toxicology studies. She also acted as the Principal Investigator for formulation analysis phases from multi-site studies. In the latter year at Sequani, she joined the Business Development team as a Programme Manager where she was responsible for several large key clients, her main responsibilities including preparation of formal proposals whilst ensuring that specific regulatory requirements are met; monitoring, management, and timely delivery of all programme elements (internal and at third party facilities), assisting with programme specific contracts and maintaining Sequani’s scheduling tool.

After spending 4 years in the pharmaceuticals industry, in which I performed key roles in Deviation and Compliance as well as Data analysis projects. I joined Penman Consulting in September of 2022 in search of a fresh new challenge and to further my own personal skills and knowledge. I am currently looking at innovative ways to make our internal processes more efficient. In my free time, I enjoy watching football and keeping fit by playing football locally with a group of friends.

Mr. Doshi has a Masters in Environmental Management (MEM) degree from Duke University (USA) and has over 10 years of experience in the areas of human health and environmental risk assessment.

Since 2008, Mr. Doshi has assisted consortia of multinational companies based in Europe and the United States in complying with the requirements of the European Union’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation. He has extensive hands on experience developing robust summary dossiers and endpoint summary records in the International Uniform Chemical Information Database (IUCLID) and is proficient in the use of data management tools such as REACHSuite.

Mr. Doshi is adept in the determination of DNELS (Derived No-Effect Levels) and has experience working with international hazard based classification systems such as GHS, CLP, and DSD.

Prior to joining Penman Consulting, Mr. Doshi worked in Washington DC for a reputed international consulting firm where his experience includes providing technical assistance and scientific know-how to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pesticides Programs’ (OPPTS) Antimicrobials Division (AD) for antimicrobial pesticides in the U.S market.

Jamie Dunn graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology and has been a member of the company since November 2014. He was then subsequently awarded an MSc in Toxicology from the University of Birmingham in 2019, after 2 years of part-time study and weekly travel between Oxfordshire and Birmingham, and with the professional and financial support of Penman Consulting. He is now currently training in the area of developmental and reproductive toxicology (DART).

In his role as a toxicologist, Jamie is responsible for maintaining the regulatory data for several substances within the Lower Olefins and Aromatics (LOA) and Higher Olefins and Polyalphaolefins (HOPA) REACH consortia, such as butene isomers, methylbutenes, butene oligomers and polyalphaolefin UVCBs. He is also responsible for updating testing strategies, testing proposals and read-across argumentation relevant to these substances.

Additionally, Jamie is proficient in using ECHA’s IUCLID software for the reporting and submission of scientific data to regulatory authorities, and in this capacity has also worked with DEFRA as they began to develop the UK’s equivalent to REACH.

Jamie is active in the British Toxicological Society (BTS), in which he is currently vice-chair of the Network for Early-Stage Toxicologists (NEST) sub-group. He heads up the engagement team, which currently produce podcasts and other materials for toxicologists and students early in their career.

Claire has worked as a regulatory toxicologist since early 2009 and has an MSc in Applied Toxicology from the University of Surrey.  She is experienced in study monitoring a range of regulatory toxicology studies from acute toxicology to DART and carcinogenicity studies as well as the supporting analytical validations.  Claire currently works as a technical lead on client projects providing technical advice and position statements.

She has over 20 years’ experience working in the agrochemical industry in a number of different roles associated with the safety of agrochemicals and formulations with a particular interest in in vitro methodologies in the acute arena. Claire also has a degree in Environmental Sciences and has worked as a soil and plant metabolism chemist using radiolabelled techniques and as a residue analyst.

David joined Active Steward in November 2022.

He is a qualified Red Hat Certified Engineer for Linux and Microsoft Certified Systems Associate for Windows Server with a background in both Windows Domain Management and Linux Systems Engineering.

He has spent the last 12 years working at the University of Oxford and Jisc, the UK’s National Research and Education Network (NREN) provider – managing various physical and virtual infrastructure systems with a strong focus on IT Security, automation and infrastructure as code.

Away from the office he enjoys reading, exploring the wilderness with his family and playing various games with boards, cards and computers.

Lorraine has over 35 years industry experience and knowledge of working in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and chemical safety sector at Sequani Ltd – a pre-clinical CRO.

Her career started as an in-vivo technician supporting both non and regulatory acute, general, pharmacology and reproductive toxicology studies before ending some 20+ years later as the deputy section manager for the in-vivo facilities at Sequani and having attained the Membership status of the Institute of Animal Technicians.

Following this, she remained at Sequani and moved into Business Development where she was an Assistant Programme Manager for several key customers that spanned the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical and Chemical industry (covering multi-disciplines – DART, EOGRT, Juvenile, short- and long-term toxicity studies) along with being a key proposal writer.

In August 2021, Lorraine joined Penman Consulting as the Technical Services Manager to provide support to Client and Consortia management; lead Penman Consulting’s working relationships with CROs; support staff to deliver the Company’s commitments timely and to the highest standard; implement and manage use of Penman Consulting’s internal software systems.

Montse joined Penman Consulting in May 2022 and is part of the Regulatory Affairs team. Her role involves helping with REACH registration of substances and providing guidance on regulatory rules.

She started her career as a Science Associate at Concawe, where she worked in the Substance Identity Management Group. She was actively engaged in the Gas Oil Analytical Program, contributing to a new approach for supporting read-across.

Montse holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of Bologna and has more than 10 years of experience in synthesis of molecules and the implementation of cutting-edge synthetic methodologies.

Safety and quality of the substances are main goals as a regulator chemist.

Outside work, I like spending time with my family and growing plants.

Corinne graduated from the University of Dundee with a degree in Physics (BSc (Hons); 2003) and a degree in Life Sciences (Biochemistry; BSc; 2008).

Corinne began her career in toxicology at CXR Biosciences Ltd and Concept Life Sciences Ltd. Corinne has over 15 years of industry experience working primarily with agro- and industrial- chemicals. Corinne has substantial expertise in Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), study directing, designing and running in vivo and in vitro toxicology studies and focusing primarily on mechanism of action and human relevance. Corinne has expertise in metabolism, new approach methodologies (NAMs), human safety and endocrine disruption and is passionate about delivery of quality sound scientific supports with a customer centric focus.

Megan has 10 years’ experience as an HR professional. She started her career at Skanska in 2013 as an HR Administrator and within 3 years, worked her way up to become an Associate HR Business Partner.

In 2015, Megan completed her CIPD level 5 in People Management and became an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Professional Development.

During her time at Skanska, Megan was an accredited Mental Health Ambassador (Regional Lead) and volunteered for numerous charities, including Arrival Education; a charity aimed at helping socially and ethnically diverse students reach their full potential.

In 2020, Megan took a career break to care for her three young girls and returned to work in September 2021 to a short-term resourcing role. Megan then went on to start her current role as an HR Manager, at Penman Consulting, in November 2021.

Larry studied biochemistry at Trinity College in Dublin (1996-2001) followed by a PhD at the University of Dundee (2001-2005) studying the role of Nrf2 in adaption to oxidative stress under the tutelage Professor John Hayes and Dr. Cliff Elcombe. After his PhD, he continued his work on Nrf2 and oxidative stress in professor Hayes lab as a post-doctoral research assistant (2005-2008) before switching to study the role of PPARβ/δ in the initiation and promotion of breast cancer with Professor Colin Palmer (2008-20011). To formalise his training, he studied toxicology at the University of Birmingham 2016-17.

Larry has over 14-year’s experience in toxicology and in particular mechanisms of action and human relevance. He started his career as a bench scientist where he then very quickly progressed into Senior Principal Scientist combined with business development and customer facing roles working with CRO’s such as CXR Biosciences (CXR) and Concept Life Sciences (CLS). He has experience in mechanistic study design and interpretation, study management, GLP and non-GLP study directing and providing leadership and support to the technical teams. He has published regularly throughout his scientific career and he has served on scientific advisory boards of CXR and CLS and provided strategy to meet the CRO demands for mechanistic screens for endocrine disruption, most recently on thyroid hormone endpoints. He maintains membership of the Royal Society of Biology, The Society of Toxicology, and is an EU registered toxicologist. He has delivered workshops on mechanistic toxicology at the European Chemicals Agency and Lectures in Toxicology at the University of Birmingham.

After several years spent at university studying Veterinary Science and Biology, I am pleased to have joined Penman Consulting. I am providing science support to the Environment and Toxicology teams, initially focusing on IUCLID and Active Steward.

I like to spend time with my family, friends, and animals. I try to practice a sport several times a week, horse riding or gym.

Maitreyi holds a Master’s degree in Toxicology from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from University of Mumbai, India. She joined Penman Consulting in June 2022, bringing valuable experience from her academic work at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institute, where she worked with data from the Swedish Poisons Information Centre and the Swedish Chemicals Agency.

Maitreyi’s expertise include risk assessment of chemicals, dossier preparation, data gap analysis, study monitoring of genetic toxicity studies, and literature searches. She has a keen interest in regulatory toxicology and the development of non-animal methods for chemical testing.

Hans is passionate to build bridges with science, especially in the area that helps companies at finding solutions to meet the global energy and circular economy needs in a responsible & sustainable way with respect to environmental health.

After completing his PhD and a short post-doc position in toxicology and biological health sciences, he has worked for 13 years in several positions for ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences (EMBSI, under ExxonMobil Research & Engineering), and worked for 6 years at the European Refiners Association – first as the Science Executive for Health and subsequently as the Director for REACH.

Scientifically, Hans continues to be involved in international research with a special interest in the development and practical application of realistic alternatives to animal testing. He is an active member of several professional societies.

Other passions include music, literature, sports and his lively family with two sets of twins (hence: stress-proof and strategic thinking).

Tim has over 30 years’ experience within the chemical industry. Originally starting in sales he went on to lead his own sales, formulation and manufacturing SME group for industrial speciality chemicals which also included recycling and hazardous waste companies. After selling these businesses Tim moved into chemical distribution as General and Sales Manager for a business unit within Brenntag UK.

Having experienced working in a corporate environment Tim expanded his managerial range and moved into the financial services industry, as Group Managing Director for a multi-site disaster restoration company servicing the insurance industry.

Tim has extensive experience leading SME teams in the management of Sales, Admin, Operations, HR, Procurement, Quality, IT and Finance functions pursuing a ‘client-focused’ approach.

In January 2019 Tim joined Penman Consulting as General Manager, dividing his time between our Brussels and Oxfordshire offices. He is responsible for ensuring we deliver a high-quality service for our clients.

Varvara joined Penman in 2020 to support the Hydrocarbon Resins, Rosin Resins and Pine Chemical Materials (H4R) REACH Consortium with its compliance activities. She has several years of experience in the water industry initially as a researcher on water toxicity monitoring projects and later gained several years of experience in acquiring and managing projects within the eco-toxicology sector. She has also worked on innovative projects using image processing analysis to address water industry challenges.

Varvara holds a PhD in Environmental Monitoring and Toxicology from the University of Cranfield in the UK, an MSc in Food Biotechnology and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Patras in Greece.

Varvara enjoys spending time with her family, dancing, baking and travelling.

Martyna holds a MEng in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering from the University of Leeds as well as a MSc in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technology from the University of York.

In her previous role in a global CRO, she owned and managed lead and joint EU REACh registrations and provided business-critical advice to multiple global corporations on EU chemical compliance over a 3-year period. She has also contributed to preparation of plant protection product dossiers as well as environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals.

She joined Penman Consulting in September 2020 as a Regulatory Scientist and is a member of the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs (PRSA) team.  Martyna’s responsibilities include overseeing Penman Consulting’s Only Representative services and consulting on REACH and Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs queries. She will also be supporting the Environmental team and CoRP Consortium.

Carole Lamant holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Compiègne in France.

Her first job was as Principal Scientist in R&D at Baxter Healthcare in Belgium. She worked at Baxter for 8 years and then moved to Kraton Polymers Belgium where she worked for 17 years in the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs team as Regulatory Senior Specialist.

Her main hobbies are aquabiking and horse riding.

Theo graduated from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale with a Licence’s Degree (BSc equivalent) in 2010, and a Master’s Degree in Health and Biology with specialisation in Toxicological Risk Assessment for the Consumer in 2012. Since then, he has held various safety science roles.

At British American Tobacco, he supported product stewardship and risk assessment for 2 years (2017-2019). This involved identification of relevant in vitro models and monitoring safety studies conducted at external laboratories.

Theo has also acted as a Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Study director at CiToxLAB and Concept Life Science, for 1 (2013-2014) and 4 years (2019-2023), respectively.

At Concept Life Sciences, Theo was a senior scientist supporting clients with their Endocrine Disruption assessment strategies. He was instrumental in the development, validation, and introduction to market of a suite of in vitro assays for thyroid disruption.

Theo is an EU registered toxicologist and a member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB), the British Toxicology Society and the European Society for Toxicology In Vitro. He has a keen interest in the application of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to safety assessment.

Stephanie has been with Penman Consulting since 2012 and works in the UK office providing administration and finance support to the business.

Before joining Penman Consulting she spent 15 years in a variety of financial and banking industry roles. In addition to her administration and finance role in the company Stephanie provides assistance on marketing and design activities.

Alberto joined Penman Consulting in 2022 as a Senior Environmental Scientist, to further strengthen the Environmental Team. He has a degree in Environmental Sciences and more than 15 years of experience in chemical risk assessment and REACH compliance.

Alberto spent almost 12 years working at the European Chemicals Agency dealing with a wide variety of tasks, and was part of the group that started up all the processes in ECHA at the beginning of the Agency. Apart from process development and project management, he was one of the main experts in the application and assessment of QSARs and NAMs, as well as in the application of Business Intelligence tools to support a variety of processes managed by ECHA.

In 2019 he joined Concawe as a Science Associate, where he led the Special Task Force on Environmental Hazard, supporting the EU petroleum refining companies in complying with the environmental requirements of the REACH regulation, representing their views in front of regulatory authorities and ensuring that all scientific projects related to hazard assessment came to good term.

In his free time he enjoys cooking, reading and reading cookbooks.

Audric, an exposure scientist, joined Penman Consulting in July 2023, armed with a BSc in chemistry and a MSc in organic chemistry from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). With nearly five years of expertise gained as a modelling exposure scientist at Vitis Regulatory, he is driven by a strong commitment to human health and environment safety, particularly concerning chemical exposure.

Audric like to do bouldering during his spare time.

Mike studied Industrial Chemistry at the University of Limerick (1990-1994) followed by a PhD in Biotechnology at Dublin City University (1994-1999). Thereafter, he spent 18 years at the University of Dundee in the laboratories of first Professor John Hayes and later Professor Roland Wolf. During this period, he published over 30 peer-reviewed papers revealing how organisms respond to chemical stress at the molecular, cellular, and system levels. Many of these papers are considered seminal and have been cited collectively over 8000 times.

After leaving academia in 2017, Mike joined Concept Life Sciences (CLS) as a Principal Scientist. By the time of his departure, he had risen to the position of Head of Science (Toxicology) in which capacity he was responsible for RnD strategy and delivery; and mentorship of the operational teams. Mike was also responsible for the design, delivery, and interpretation of bespoke client studies, for which purpose he frequently acted as GLP Study Director.

During his career, Mike has developed particular expertise in the fields of Mechanistic Toxicology (Human Relevance) and Endocrine Disruption. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed publications, Mike has been an invited speaker at various Toxicology forums, including EUROTOX and BelTox. He is a review editor for the journal “Frontiers in Toxicology”.

Stefano holds a BSc in Biology from the University of Genova and a MSc in Marine biology from the Marche Polytechnic University with a thesis in ecotoxicology.

After the master’s degree, Stefano moved to Cyprus to work as Marine Biologist at the Marine & Environmental Research (MER) Lab. In February 2020 he moved to UK to work as a Consultant Ecotoxicologist at the Cambridge Environmental Assessment (CEA) where he was involved in GLP studies on the effects of herbicides on freshwater mesocosms and in reviewing ecotoxicological studies.

Stefano joined Penman Consulting in April 2021 as an Environmental scientist/ecotoxicologist as part of the Environmental team.

Ross graduated from the University of Lancaster with a first-class honours degree in Computer Science, alongside a gold Lancaster Award, recognising outstanding extra-curricular work.

After exploring solutions for energy optimisation in smart cities, he became an Oracle certified programmer, working with large e-commerce clients, before joining Active Steward™ in 2018. His role involves maintaining and extending code written in Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS and associated frameworks.

Ross loves the outdoors and travel; he previously volunteered as a park ranger and hopes to continue completing annual ‘Tough Mudder’ events.

James joined Penman Consulting in August 2016, and is the Regulatory Affairs Manager.

He graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a First-Class Honours degree in Biomedical Science.
James’ main responsibilities include management of the regulatory services offered by Penman Consulting, regulatory team management and oversight of Only Representative services. In addition, James is the focal point for consulting on REACH and Regulatory Affairs queries for both EU and UK REACH, and aims to support clients with gaining access to these markets. In this capacity, James has also provided support to DEFRA on development and feedback of the “Comply with UK REACH tool” during multiple focus group sessions.

Since joining the company, he has also gained additional experience in project management and oversight, joint submission management (LoA requests, cost calculations), IUCLID preparation, PPORD’s, PCNs and complex regulatory compliance strategies.

Claire joined Penman Consulting in June 2024 to provide Bookkeeping and financial support to the business.

Before joining Penman, Claire spent over 7 years in a variety of financial roles within the Automobile and SFX, Mouldling & Casting distribution industries.

Outside of work, Claire is a qualified Level 2 Gym Instructor who has taught a variety of exercise classes including Spin, Les Mills BodyPump and BodyCombat.

Helen Penman, BSc, PG Cert Environmental Management, is a regulatory project manager with many years of experience working closely with large consortia in the chemicals industry and REACH regulation.

Her experience includes SIEF management, SIEF communication, data access for non-REACH purposes, project management, consortia management and financial management of large testing programs for multiple complex substances.

Helen is studying for an MSc in Environmental Management and has level 2 BSL.

Marsh has a Masters (MA) degree specialising in collaborative editing of electronic literary texts. He completed his MSc (computing) in 2021, specialising in machine learning and information security threat prediction.

Marsh began his career in Health, Safety and Environmental management in the nuclear industry. He holds the NEBOSH National Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, and NVQ 3 Advice and Guidance.

Later he became a CEDR-accredited mediator as part of an award-winning team, focussing on SHE and ITIP (Information Technology Intellectual Property) mediation for, among others, the U.K domain name registry Nominet and the County Courts.

Before coming to Penman Consulting Marsh worked for the Open University, Europe’s largest university, in a team providing Higher Education for students in prisons and secure hospitals.

Professional body memberships: Tech IOSH, MISTC, MIIRSM, MBCS

Carmen holds an ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification and completed Business Management studies at the University of the West Indies. She joined Penman Consulting in 2021 after 15 years in a financial services (FCA) regulated business; six of those years as an Internal Auditor, two of which she was responsible for the Internal Audit portfolio for clients in the moto finance services industry. In the past she working as a Foreign Purchase Officer for a manufacturing company.

Carmen now has nine years’ experience in QMS and ISMS internal auditing and is proficient in the development and management of the Internal Audit Function, focusing on operational (QMS) and information security system audits, delivering QMS training and contributing to business improvements through the internal audit, change management and risk management processes.

Rhianon Price graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in Mathematics in 2014. After working briefly as a finance assistant, she joined Penman Consulting in 2015.

Rhianon works closely with the Active Steward™ team, testing new releases and providing training to internal staff. Rhianon also sits inside Penman Consulting’s Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs team, contributing to innovative modeling work such as Petrorisk and other statistical work.

James obtained an undergraduate degree in Chemistry in 2014 and a master’s degree in Toxicology in 2018 from the University of Birmingham. He has worked for metal pretreatment, regulatory cosmetics, and agrichemical companies before joining the company in December 2019. He has primarily worked with the LOA consortium, especially with the Xylene, Benzene, and Toluene registrations. He has also assisted with the publication of several papers produced by the consortium.

James is also a member of the British Toxicological Society (BTS), and like all toxicologists has very strong opinions on tea.

Federica joins Penman Consulting as a Technical Projects Coordinator.

Prior to this role, she gained experience in various industries, including hospitality and real estate investment.

Alongside her professional commitments, Federica is pursuing a BA (Honours) Business Management degree at the Open University.

In her free time, she enjoys baking, playing videogames, and watching football with her family.”

Claire has a BSc (Hons) and has previously worked as a Senior Quality Control and Analytical Scientist within forensic and drugs of abuse testing laboratories.

Claire joined Penman Consulting in December 2021 as a Regulatory Affairs Officer taking on a supporting role with REACH and Only Representative services offered by Penman Consulting.

Since joining the company, Claire has gained additional experience in project management as well as overseeing the Poison Centre Notification service offered by Penman Consulting.

Borja studied Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). He completed the last year of his degree and the Final Project at the University of Pisa (Italy).

He is a proficient programmer in Java and C++ with experience in all the stages of the software development life-cycle.

Previously, Borja worked as a programmer analyst for communication and audiovisual companies. He has worked as the support engineer for integrated development editors as Delphi or C++ Builder. Within Penman Consulting he works as a software developer and quality engineer of Active Steward™.

Borja was born in Spain and joined Penman Consulting/Active Steward™ 2016.

Lewis graduated from the University of Gloucestershire with a First-Class Honours degree in Sport & Exercise Sciences, specialising in Sport Psychology. Before joining Penman Consulting, he began his career in data management and analytics in the financial and sports betting industries.

Lewis joined Penman Consulting in April 2022 as part of the Regulatory Affairs team focusing on the development of the in-house software ASTrack. More recently, he has moved into the Consortia team where he now acts as Project Officer. He is responsible for the day-to-day organisation and management of the Higher Olefins and Poly Alpha Olefins (HOPA) REACH Consortium and the Di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) REACH Consortium.

Lewis is involved in several other projects within the company including the new Letter of Access (LoA) Webshop team, which was established to streamline the LoA process. He also serves as Secretariat for the LOA Alternative Feedstock Working Group (AFWG) and provides administrative support to the Category 8 Working Group within the Hydrocarbon Resins & Rosin Resins (H4R) Consortium.

Lawrence (Larry) Segal has over 30 years professional experience in regulatory toxicology in the chemical and pharmaceutical Industries and in a Regulatory Agency (Health Canada). He is a Eurotox Registered Toxicologist (ERT) and obtained a PhD in toxicology from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and MSc and BSc (Hons) in Biology from Carleton University (Canada).

Prior to joining Penman Consulting, Larry was Director of Nonclinical Toxicology & Pharmacology at GSK Vaccines, where he was responsible for the preparation and review of the non-clinical toxicology sections of all regulatory submissions, interactions with regulatory agencies worldwide, planning and review of GLP toxicity studies, and participation in internal safety monitoring boards and project teams. He was also involved in leading and participating in technical projects at EU and US industry associations.

Before joining GSK he worked for GE Advanced Materials and Huntsman Europe in senior regulatory toxicology and product safety roles that provided him with experience in chemical health hazard and risk assessment, industry association activities related to toxicology and product safety, occupational toxicology, hazard communication and hazard classification. Prior to moving to Belgium in 2000 he worked for Health Canada as a toxicologist involved in chemical, pesticide and hazardous waste management programmes.

Larry has been an active member of the WEEL (OARS/TERA) occupational exposure committee since 1994. He is a member of the Society of Toxicology and Beltox.

Lucy Timpson graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Mathematics in 2021. She joined Penman Consulting in 2022. Lucy works in the Active Steward team as trainee developer, testing new releases and updating the Help Centre.

Adam achieved a level 3 qualification in A.A.T in 2010 and has 10 years’ experience working in finance and business administration roles.

He joined Penman Consulting in August 2016 as an Administration Assistant in the Belgium office. Adam manages all SIEF communication and Letter of Access enquiries for the LOA, HOPA and H4R REACH consortiums.

Prior to joining Penman Consulting, Nathan spent 10 years in customer service and administration before graduating from the University of Exeter with an honours degree in Law, in July 2017.

Nathan joined Penman Consulting in August 2017 as Project Officer for the Lower Olefins and Aromatics (LOA) REACH Consortium and the Higher Olefins and Poly Alpha Olefins (HOPA) REACH Consortium.

Following a successful period in consortia, Nathan moved to the role of Legal and Regulatory Advisor where he assists the wider Penman team with legal and contractual issues. Nathan is also responsible for the Penman Consulting Letter of Access service for which he has been instrumental in the development and running of the Letter of Access webshops on behalf of the Penman Consulting consortia clients as well as individual clients.