Farzana Patel Tolling Production Manager
After completing her studies in 2015 (Chemical and Pharmaceutics with industrial placement year BSc), Farzana worked in Pharmaceutical industry and Medical devices initially as an R&D Chemist and then moving into a compliance role supporting audits and aligning procedures with quality requirements. Following this, Farzana moved into the Chemical industry working for William Blythe where she was working as a Production Chemist. This role involved production support, scale up of product manufacture, troubleshooting product quality and technical issues and working closely with supply chain and other functions to meet customer needs. This end-to-end production experience helped to gain experience which supports her current role in Syngenta as a Tolling Production Manager where she is responsible for managing processes and relationships with multiple third-party production sites which produce Syngenta products.
Outside of work, Farzana is a female boxing coach and creates and sells Arabic Calligraphy art pieces alongside hosting workshops & art events.
Dr Steve Smith CChem FRSC Science Liaison Lead
After PhD and postdoc, I started as a Team Leader in Herbicide Chemistry at Jealott’s Hill Research Centre in 1992. I spent 2 years on secondment in Process Technology at Huddersfield and was then appointed Combinatorial Chemistry Group Leader at Jealott’s Hill in 1999. This grew into a more senior role as Head of Chemical Technologies, managing a group of 50 scientists, including Physical & Computational Chemistry, Structural Chemistry & Crystallography and Compound Logistics. I am currently Science Liaison Lead at Jealott’s Hill, involved in site science development and a member of the site leadership team. Travel highlights include setting up our Goa India R&D centre, the RSC Pan Africa Chemistry Network, and more recently leading our Chemistry collaborations team in China. I have led our Jealott’s Hill D&I team and sit on our RSC professional recognition panel as well as the RSC Inclusion & Diversity Committee. I have 2 daughters and enjoy arts and crafts.
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