Steve Thomas is a Scientific Investigator in the DMPK department at GSK Ware. Steve is responsible for structural identification of in-vivo and in-vitro metabolites. It is essential that GSK scientists have access to one another’s findings in order to prevent error, repetition or inefficiency. He has implemented a Spectrus database of metabolic knowledge that helps GSK store, share and search data from around the globe.

1. What message are you most looking forward to getting across to your webinar audience?

The efficiency of re-using data in a corporate environment. We are generating knowledge too fast to stay in one person’s head. I hope to show the audience one way to create a repository of knowledge that doesn’t forget, doesn’t go senile, doesn’t retire and doesn’t leave the company for a competitor.

2. Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

Any shallow tropical sea bed. As an avid scuba diver I love investigating the undersea world and its fantastic inhabitants.

3. How did you become a Scientific Investigator?

I have always loved puzzles and science. Structural identification is a straight combination of the two. I was lucky enough to train in both NMR and Mass Spec, flatteringly described as analytically bilingual. Initially this was geared towards Medicinal Chemistry support, but eventually the lure of more challenging samples and close proximity to the development compounds that would change people’s quality of life proved too strong. I have been a Scientific Investigator, studying metabolic transformations in man for 7 years.

4. What has been the best moment in your career?

Curiously, site closure. I was at Merck when Terlings Park closed. The camaraderie and skill sharing that helped the scientists there branch out and move on was human nature close to its best.

5. What are you hoping to achieve from doing the webinar?

I hope to give participants an overview of what can be done with linked up data so colleagues within an organization don’t have to reinvent the wheel and can steer away from known problems

Robert Burke is the Application Manager at Wood Group GTS and has been working in power generation for 22 years. Robert’s experience ranges from overseeing turbine manufacturing, installation quality and hands on gas turbine installation performance. He has spent 13 years working with General Electric and six years working with Gas Turbine Efficiency.

1. What do you most enjoy about presenting to a live audience and why?

I enjoy having the opportunity to share best practices or proven technologies that have benefited others globally and can provide value for all people in our industry from students to C-level management.

2. What is one of the most informative facts in your upcoming webinar?

One informative fact is the gas turbine benefits for end users. These benefits include a 1-4% performance recovery, 0.5 -1% heat rate and 2% availability improvements. The addition or combination of Power Augmentation technologies have also shown to provide power improvements up to 15% and heat rate improvements up to 2.5% when in use.

3. What is the ideal outcome you would like to see by doing this webinar?

I’d like for people to better understand that innovative gas turbine technologies are available to them that can increase the performance of their assets.

4. What has been your best holiday and where would you recommend visiting?

During the Holidays I prefer staying relatively close to home. I recently spent 12 days in Wyoming with my wife where we covered Yellowstone & Teton National Parks. Here you can be in touch with the outdoors, including horseback riding, nature watching and fishing. I would recommend this trip to anyone.

Also, being an avid scuba diver I highly recommend visiting Phuket, Thailand. It is exotic and beautiful, but it is quite a distance to get to, living in the US.

5. What do you most enjoy about your position and where do you see yourself in 5-10 years in your career/what would you like to achieve in your career?

I enjoy developing and deploying new product technologies whilst in parallel, supporting a sales function in presenting these technologies to customers and the industry. I am interested to see where the Power Generation industry is heading from a technology perspective and what will be the next big change and how that change will it transform the industry or product evolution.

Sami Liponkoski, M.Sc.Tech (Chemical Engineering) has over 10 years experience in RFID tagging solutions and antennas, with a broad experience in RFID business, field engineering, technical solutions and converting. He is a member of management boards in several RFID projects; Manos (TUT), Ideal Hospital (HUS), RFID Lab Finland, NICE Travel.

1. Why did you decide to do a webinar with Business Review Webinars?

We understood that BRW has a good reputation in the webinar market space. We believe that BRW has strong marketing and sales team to support our webinar promotion and reach out to a truly global audience.

2. Tell us more about your webinar you hosted with BRW? What were you hoping to achieve from doing the webinar?

My main incentive of hosting this webinar was to continue our marketing campaigns that we started earlier this year. We wanted to continue promoting the same message we launched at RFID Journal Live in Orlando which took place from 30th April – 2nd May 2013 http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live2013/. Additionally we wanted to reach out to audiences we have not been able to approach, primarily the end users. Our first webinar went well and we now understand the importance of utilising social media as Business Review do reach out to a wider audience.

3. What was the presentation about? What did you explain to the audience?

My main message was to approach people who are already using or considering using RFID technology and additionally to reach new audiences that I have not had the opportunity to meet. In the webinar, I presented our new 4E Technology solutions to reduce cost of tagging which is important in the current economic climate. We wanted to use a different angle to ensure the audience understood how our solutions could make the difference. Please request our on demand presentation here.

4. Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

One of the best places is my home Coastal Areas and Archipelago in Finland. It’s one of the country’s most beautiful and most unique tourist destinations. It lies off Finland’s west coast. Shaped by the Ice Age, the Turku archipelago consists of over 20,000 islands and islets. The area is naturally popular with sailors, but the numerous islands mean that the area can also be explored by road on the circular Turku Archipelago Trail. Sheltered waters mostly mean light winds and calms seas. Finland is the perfect sailing destination if battling the nature is not high on your list of sailing preferences.

5. What do you most enjoy about your role?

I absolutely love the RFID industry. I want to be part of developing the technology and changing the world one tag at a time. I am very passionate and believe in our products. I enjoy introducing our new solutions and in general making our world a better place one step at the time.