Kate Full - Finance Manager

Kate joined TFT from Braveheart Ventures where she was responsible for the evaluation and development of investment opportunities, focusing on financial diligence. A Chartered Certified Accountant, she trained with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, qualifying in 2001 and continued in professional practice until joining Braveheart in 2004. Prior to embarking on her professional training Kate held a number of different accounting roles in a variety of industries including manufacturing, wholesale and leisure.

Richard Nelson - Director of Development Operations

Richard Nelson joined TFT in 2008 as Director of Development Operations. Previously he held clinical research and sales posts in the orthopaedic industry with Zimmer and Corin. He has a B.Eng in Mechanical engineering and a M.Sc in bioengineering from Strathclyde University, Glasgow.

Katie Whyte - Marketing Coordinator/PA

Katie is the Marketing Coordinator and Personal Assistant to the CEO, David Lawrence. She joined the company in February after working in retail whilst studying at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Katie achieved a 2:1 Joint Honors Degree in Human Resource Management and Marketing. The role includes many duties such as conference organization, website design and liaising with distributors.

Rudy Mounia - US General Manager

Rudy Mounia is a highly experienced commercial professional having spent much of his sales and marketing career with Impra and Bard. Rudy has been responsible for product launches of Access Grafts (Venaflo, Vectra) as well as the management and marketing of peripheral bypass grafts (Carboflo, Distaflo). Rudy has also published several papers on Vascular Access.

Most recently Rudy was working with the State of Arizona as a health industry consultant and Vasca where his responsibilities included leadership of the training program for the Sales Team.

Rudy has been appointed as General Manager for the US for TFT and brings great experience and knowledge to our company.

Edwin Lindsay - Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs

Edwin is the Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs for Tayside Flow Technologies. Edwin is responsible for the quality and regulatory function for the company's operations.

From 1996 to the present his extensive quality, validation and regulatory experience has encompassed roles at Smith and Nephew Ltd, Ethicon Ltd, AorTech Europe Ltd, MI Services (Consultancy),Omega Critical Care Ltd and Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences) Ltd. These roles involved the preparation of new and amended European (CE Marking) and US FDA Regulatory (510K, PMA, IDE) submissions for class 1,2 and 3 medical devices, development and implementation of quality systems to ISO 9001, ISO 13485, GMP/GLP and the US FDA Quality system regulations.

As a consultant his clients included Scottish and Northern Ireland National Blood Transfusion Service's, Tayside Flow Technologies, Cambrex, Ventana Medical, Integra Life Sciences, American Red Cross, Novartis, Optos, and Oracle.

Rodney Parker - US Director of Sales

Rodney has more than 42 years experience in the medical field beginning in 1968. This experience includes Clinical laboratory management, Emergency room services, X-Ray and medical imaging, as well as, extensive vascular and cardiovascular sales and product development experience.
Rodney’s clinical experience includes 3 ½ years as assistant medical examiner in Muscogee County (Columbus) Georgia as well as director of the medical examiners laboratory.
At the commercial level Rodney spent 10 years as a Territory Manager for the laboratory division of Owens-Illinois, Kimble as well as 15 years with Meadox-Boston Scientific as a Distributor Manager and has Sales and Customer Development Manager. Rodney has also worked as a Customer Development Manager and Director of Customer Development and Training for Vasca Inc. This included the preapproval process and market launch of the Vasca Life Site Hemodialysis Access Valve.
More recently Rodney was an Area Manager for Vascular Architects and an Imaging Specialist for a surgical products distributor for Siemens Medical.