Our Management Team

Steve Williams
Chief Technical Officer / Managing Director

Steve has over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry in R & D, Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Operations, working on point-of-care diagnostics and drug-device combination products.

At MediSense (now part of Abbot Diabetes Care), Steve was a member of the team that developed the world’s first biosensor device for the measurement of blood glucose, and as the Operations Director at Environmental Sensors Ltd (now Cambridge Sensors Ltd), he led the development of a range of biosensor devices for the measurement of heavy metals and glucose.

In Director-level positions at Cygnus Inc Steve spent the next eight years developing and then manufacturing the Glucowatch Biographer, the first FDA-approved non-invasive glucose monitoring technology before joining Corium International to head up the Advanced Drug Delivery group in R&D, where he was responsible for nonclinical and clinical development of novel microneedle-based transdermal drug-delivery devices.

Steve has a Ph. D and B. Sc in Biochemistry from the University of Southampton.

Dr. John Pritchard
Glucose Technical Leader

John has over 20 years international experience with companies such as Boehringer Mannheim, Genzyme and Hypoguard. At Boehringer Mannheim, he was responsible for the development of the first generation biosensor test strip for the Accuchek® Advantage™ blood glucose monitoring system. This blockbuster product generated over $1 billion in sales revenue worldwide.

Rob Glen
Director of Technology Development and Intellectual Property

Rob has twenty years experience in technical product development and intellectual property, including ten years in start up companies covering diverse technology fields including materials, instrumentation, biosensors and optical devices. Prior to this he was technical manager of a functional film coating business in ICI plc (now part of AkzoNobel), where he development media products for the digital printing industry and managed a portfolio of over fifty patent cases. He subsequently built up patent portfolios for startups in Oxford and Cambridge. At Smart he is in charge of technology and product development, and manages the portfolio of over twenty patent families.