Management team

Annie Brooking

CEO, 30 years experience in high tech industry

Annie is a computer scientist who has been working in the high technology industry for over 30 years. During this time she has led academic research teams, engineering teams and teams of marketers, and has held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems Inc. in Mountain View CA and Symbolics Inc. in Boston. She has run a number of high technology companies, has 20 years' sales and marketing experience in Europe and the USA and has published several books on both management and computing topics. Annie is a visiting professor at the Computing Department at Newcastle University.

Symon Cotton

Scientific Director, Inventor of SIAscopy

Symon completed his PhD at Birmingham University with a thesis entitled, "A non-invasive imaging system for assisting in the diagnosis of malignant melanoma".  He then joined Cambridge Design Partnership to continue to develop this technology, which led to the formation of Astron Clinica Limited in November 1998 when it became apparent that the technology had a significant commercial future.

Thorbjorn Njalsson

Software Development Manager

Thorbjorn leads the software team at Astron Clinica. He has worked in software development since 1996, including as a key member of the team that created InfoSuite and as co-founder of Lux Inflecta Reykjavik. Thorbjorn developed GIZA, the first server-centric IDE running on the web, and has completed projects for a range of large enterprises, including Iceland Telecom, Nokia and StatOil. A native of Iceland, Thorbjorn has a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Reykjavik.

Dermot Walsh

General Manager, Asia Pacific

Dermot has had over 25 years sales and marketing experience within medical and pharmaceutical markets. His experience within the UK and Europe covers Sales, Marketing and General Management with Blue Chip organisations such as Schering AG, BOC and CR Bard. Having run his own business for 5 years, Dermot joined Astron Clinica in 2003 and has been involved in the commercialisation of our products throughout Europe. He is now based in Brisbane as General Manager of the Asia Pacific region – including Australia. He holds a B.Sc from Glasgow University and a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

David Warwick

Operations Manager

David leads the product development team at Astron and is also the management representative for quality and regulatory affairs. He has worked for several large multi-national companies including Chase Manhattan Bank, Marconi and Nortel Networks. More recently he has been the senior software engineer at a number of Cambridge start-up companies. David holds a B.Eng in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Warwick, a Diploma in Economics from the Open University and is currently studying for his MBA.