Our Team at GXPi
The GXPi team comprises of 20 carefully selected individuals with the exceptional experience and skills that are required to understand, scope, plan and deliver on our clients regulatory requirements. The principal consultants and board members are shown here but if you would like to find out more about our extended team and their capabilities we would be happy to discuss in greater detail.
  • Keith Williams - Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant

    Keith Williams, CEO, GXPi

    Keith founded GXPi in 1999 and brings over 20 years of Life Sciences experience, particularly in a pragmatic approach to computer systems validation.  Having been involved with and seen the benefits of correctly implementing compliant software tools within large pharmaceutical organisations he identified the gap with more cost effective solutions for the market. Keith initiated the concepts that have led to the current family of products in 2007 and he remains activity involved with the product development programme as well as sales and marketing activities. He has worked in a manufacturing, laboratory and clinical environment extensively in Europe and the US. He has a BSc in Genetics and Microbiology and an MSc in Biochemical Engineering.

  • Mark Stevens - Operations Director and Principal Consultant

    Mark Stevens, Operations Director, GXPi

    Mark joined GXPi in 1999 and became a director and investor in 2002. In 2004 he became responsible for the running of the consulting business and drove the successful restructuring of that operation into the model that exists today. He has 20 years of experience with managing teams and delivering projects that have utilised a risk based approach to achieving compliance within EU and US markets in a cost efficient manner. Mark has been responsible for building a team that is able to provide rapid response in managing critical compliance issues and help customers resume commercial operations in the shortest possible time. Mark has BEng in Chemical Engineering with Biochemical Engineering.

  • Jonathan Burd - Product Director and Principal Consultant

    Jonathan Burd, Product Director, GXPi
    A pharmacist by background, Jonathan has 30 years’ experience working in Healthcare and Life Sciences. After 15 years in the NHS, Jonathan moved into consultancy and software development where he has undertaken a wide variety of roles. He has been involved in providing enterprise content management solutions into the Life Sciences market on industry leading products based on the Documentum and SharePoint platforms since 2002 in the US and Europe.  He has extensive skills in business requirement gathering and translation into discrete work packages and provides domain input to the X-docs™ product development.
  • Dr Peter Clarke - Principal Consultant

    Dr Peter Clarke, Principal Consultant, GXPi

    Peter is GXPi’s representative in North America. He has worked for over 28 years in the biopharmaceutical industry in positions of increasing responsibility in both Europe and the US, culminating in being responsible in the last eight years for all Technical Operations in two different biopharmaceutical Companies. Dr. Clarke, who carried out research for his Ph.D. at the Imperial College in London, has led teams that have developed biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes and their associated analytical methods. He has been the technical lead in facility design, commissioning, validation and start-up and has been responsible for the technical content of CMC sections of eCTD’s successfully submitted to the FDA and EMA. As part of the licensure of five disparate biological products Dr. Clarke has interacted directly with Regulatory Agencies including FDA (CBER and CDER), EMA, BfArM and AIFA.

  • Phil Harrison - Product Quality Assurance Manager and Principal Consultant

    Phil Harrison, Product Quality Assurance Manager, GXPi

    Phil is a chemist by background, now a specialist in Quality Management Systems and in the validation and compliance of Information Systems used in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has more than 20 years’ experience in large organisations operating in a GxP environment, covering Research & Development and Active Ingredient manufacturing. In a consultancy role, Phil has helped clients to implement pragmatic and practical solutions to a wide range of GxP compliance and validation issues. He also manages GXPi’s own QMS covering software development in line with GAMP® 5 recommendations.

  • Jon Poyzer - Product Technical Manager

    Jon Poyzer, Product Technical Manager, GXPi

    Jon is an Electronic Engineering graduate with over 10 years technical and management experience working with Information Technology and Software Development projects. He has an MCTS in SharePoint Configuration and manages the product output from the software development team and the technical delivery teams. He has a broad technical knowledge particularly around infrastructure, virtualisation, automated scripting and hosting environments and has worked on projects in Europe and the US.

  • Keith Williams - Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant

    Keith Williams, CEO, GXPi

    Keith founded GXPi in 1999 and brings over 20 years of Life Sciences experience, particularly in a pragmatic approach to computer systems validation.  Having been involved with and seen the benefits of correctly implementing compliant software tools within large pharmaceutical organisations he identified the gap with more cost effective solutions for the market. Keith initiated the concepts that have led to the current family of products in 2007 and he remains activity involved with the product development programme as well as sales and marketing activities. He has worked in a manufacturing, laboratory and clinical environment extensively in Europe and the US. He has a BSc in Genetics and Microbiology and an MSc in Biochemical Engineering.

  • Mark Stevens - Operations Director and Principal Consultant

    Mark Stevens, Operations Director, GXPi

    Mark joined GXPi in 1999 and became a director and investor in 2002. In 2004 he became responsible for the running of the consulting business and drove the successful restructuring of that operation into the model that exists today. He has 20 years of experience with managing teams and delivering projects that have utilised a risk based approach to achieving compliance within EU and US markets in a cost efficient manner. Mark has been responsible for building a team that is able to provide rapid response in managing critical compliance issues and help customers resume commercial operations in the shortest possible time. Mark has BEng in Chemical Engineering with Biochemical Engineering.

  • Paul Ryan ACA - Non Executive Director

    Paul Ryan ACA, Non Executive Director, GXPi

    Paul is a big four trained chartered accountant  with over twenty years experience in senior finance roles, the last ten years being in the life sciences.  Paul has deep practical experience in the development and implementation of winning strategies, cash management, corporate finance and governance, fund raising, and realising value through corporate transactions.

  • Ian Shott CBE FREng - Non Executive Chairman

    Ian Shott CBE FREng, Non Executive Chairman, GXPi

    Ian has held senior  leadership positions in the international pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry for over thirty years.  He has been particularly involved in creating and/or transforming businesses by a combination of break out development, culture change, organic growth, internal re-engineering and external merger, acquisition and divestment.

  • Doug Ashby - Non-Executive Director

    Doug Ashby, Non-Executive Director, GXPi

    Doug founded, ran and eventually sold one of Europe’s largest independent computer parts and associated services businesses. After a short break, guest lecturing at Nottingham University he has been involved in buying several companies in the computer hardware and software sector, bringing them together to offer global solutions to his clients. He has also been involved in raising investment funds and the re-engineering of both start-up and established business.

As part of our expansion program, we are constantly looking to identify high calibre professionals with the right qualifications, experience and attitude to join our network. We have opportunities in the UK, Europe and US. To register your interest, and for consideration, please call us or email your CV to register@gxpi.com.