Michael Bate

Providing containment solutions to the UK pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

• Sales - Managing key accounts signed up from the UK and overseas, including many leading players within the Life Science industry. • Grew sales by 13% in the Company’s financial year ending in October 2012. • Marketing – author of the Company’s 2012 product catalogue; heavily involved in the development and launch new products such as the ‘TETRAD’ mini-vertical PAGE and blotting systems, and innovative products such as the ‘runVIEW’ real-time horizontal DNA electrophoresis and the ‘WAVE’ large format maxi vertical PAGE systems. Regular exhibitor or attendee at national and international trade shows. Experience in the promotion and sale of thermal cyclers, gel documentation and fermentation systems. • Created scripts for sales videos for horizontal multiSUB and vertical omniPAGE systems

Main achievements: - 1. Sales - signed up a number of leading distributors within the industry whose sales of Cleaver Scientific products contributed to a significant increase in sales growth during 2009. 2. Marketing - new 2010 Cleaver Scientific Catalogue. 3. Distributor Training - set up and ran technical and sales training workshops - new customers welcome.

 A challenging commercial role within a small company, specialising in the manufacture of gel electrophoresis tanks and radiation protection products for distributors witihn the life sciences industry.  Sales – managing key distributor accounts  Marketing – project-managed the Company’s 156-page 2007 Electrophoresis catalogue

Set up and ran customized preclinical assays to test small molecule inhibitors against cloned cellular kinases, identified as potential therapeutic targets of disease, for the company’s pharmaceutical clients