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Professor Judith A K Howard CBE, FRS Chairperson

Professor Howard is recognised as a World leading authority in X-Ray crystallography and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2002) In 1996, she was awarded a CBE for her services to science and crystallography in particular. Professor Howard has over 1100 peer reviewed publications and ~ 8 book chapters.

Beatrice Leigh Chief Executive Officer

Beatrice Leigh has had a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry spanning excess of 20 years as a research scientist, manager of Academic Liaison worldwide and finally Director of Operations, Technology Development a group working with start-up technology companies. She left GSK in 2004 to accept the position of CEO of a SME, Cresset Biomolecular Discovery Limited ,a chemistry software company providing licensed software and consultancy to the pharmaceutical, academic and biosciences sectors. Under her management the company grew and became profitable. In 2010 she resigned as CEO having recruited a significant player in the mainstream software business as CEO and has resigned as Chairman of the Cresset Group in 2011 to concentrate on OlexSys.

Dr Oleg Dolomanov Chief Technical Officer

Oleg Dolomanov graduated from Moscow states University in 2000 and did his Ph.D. at the Nottingham University (2004) where he wrote his first internationally recognised software package. He then moved for to Durham for a short project leading to Olex2 . He joined European Bio-informatics Institute in Cambridge in 2004 for a two year project in the field of distributed computing after which he came back to Durham to continue working on the Olex2 project.

Dr Horst Puschmann Chief Scientific Officer

Horst Puschmann graduated from Oxford University in 1992 and obtained his Ph.D. at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. After moving to Durham, he was first employed by Prof. Judith Howard, followed by a two-year period with Prof. David Parker (working in the area of Lanthanide chemistry). Since 2005 he has been working on the Olex2 project.