About Rowdix

Stuart Rowan, coach and consultant

Coaching

Stuart is a certified ICF coach with a particular interest in helping those in management and leadership roles, as well as those navigating career changes, parental leave and family life.

In his career working in the financial services and technology sectors, Stuart worked alongside those at all levels of leadership - from the executive board to team leads - through periods of growth and periods of change. He has extensive experience of life in a start-up organisation as well as working for and with large corporate entities and understands the challenges and opportunities that each environment can bring.

Stuart is also well-versed in balancing work and home life, being a husband and father of two young children, who has recently completed his second three-month period of shared parental leave.

Often praised as a good listener, Stuart helps coaching clients to identify underlying issues and what is preventing progress, to find a range of solutions to the issues and to set appropriate, timely goals.

Consulting

Stuart is an experienced operations director/COO/Chief of Staff with a wealth of experience in the financial services and technology sectors. If you are looking for help in scaling up your company or navigating a period growth, Stuart can help.

Stuart has strong knowledge of IT and software architecture, consulting, DevOps, development, research, sales and support areas and has contributed to go to market propositions from initial ideas right through to client pitches.

Prior to becoming a COO, Stuart’s roles included leading various teams including Professional Services, Sales Engineering and IT and being an advisor to a number of key clients such as the Australian Tax Office, Deloitte, UK Companies House and FASB in the USA.

Background

Stuart holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Cambridge and has also undertaken executive education at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In his previous role, Stuart set up an award-winning employer charitable giving scheme and is a primary school governor.

Tim Rowan, founder
BVSc., PhD., MRCVS., MRSB

In 2007, he established Rowdix Ltd., as an Animal Health Development company based in the UK to provide scientific consultancy services and organisation of clinical studies. His work has included: Scientific Adviser to GALVmed and the Wellcome Trust in support of the development of new veterinary medicines and vaccines for incorporation into integrated control programmes targeting some of the major diseases affecting poor livestock farmers in developing countries.

Through Rowdix, he has been a consultant for many commercial businesses (companies in top 10 AH companies and start-ups), NGOs (GALVmed, Wellcome Trust, IDRC, DNDi), industry bodies (Health for Animals, NOAH), regulatory bodies (WHO, OIE, VICH, EMA) together with academic organisations including Universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh (Roslin Institute), Liverpool, London (RVC), Oxford, Galway and Jerusalem, and the Sanger Institute.

Tim has always maintained a strong interest in animal welfare, ethics and the 3Rs; in 2005, he was a founding member of the steering committee of the European Commission - Industry Partnership for non-animal alternatives in regulatory safety testing (EPAA) based in Brussels and he continues to support EPAAs’ scientific projects. He is currently chair of an animal welfare and ethical review board for a UK CRO.

Tim has had key roles in leadership of projects supported by BMGF, DfID and Wellcome Trust for vaccine and pharmaceutical R & D approaches to animal African trypanosomosis, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, porcine cysticercosis, and haemorrhagic septicaemia, together with advisory roles to projects on onchocerciasis, brucellosis and MERS, as well as vaccine delivery in LMICs.

He supported the GALVmed animal African trypanosomosis project team from its beginning in 2011 through to 2016, providing both scientific advice (especially in clinical, compliance and regulatory aspects, and in design and construction of experimental animal facilities, see Appendix) and project coordination of a wide range of partner groups for R & D of new trypanocides (also advising on the evaluation of novel vaccine approaches, the development of new diagnostics, and improvement of quality control procedures for existing trypanocides).

He has been a Board member of two small start-up companies and currently Chairs the Board of Nortev, a veterinary medical device company.

Background

Tim graduated as a veterinary surgeon and completed his PhD in 1982 (University of Liverpool). After time in practice he returned to Liverpool as lecturer/senior lecturer and focused his research on cattle and pigs.

In 1992, he joined Pfizer Animal Health R & D (subsequently Zoetis) where he held a number of increasingly senior management and leadership positions first in Clinical Development and then in Discovery Research for livestock and companion animal veterinary medicinal products (pharmaceuticals and vaccines).

He has extensive experience of both the conduct and ethical review of GCP and GLP regulatory studies in Africa, India, EU and US.

Tim has 27 years of experience within the Animal Health Pharmaceutical industry, has contributed extensively to the success of a number of marketed products and has over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books.