Dr John Moursounidis has worked 20 years in research and development for multinational companies in the pharmaceutical industry in the Rx, OTC, Consumer Health and Personal Health sectors. This was followed by a 5-year term as general manager of two pharmaceutical manufacturing companies before setting up a product development and regulatory affairs consultancy primarily in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Dr Moursounidis has experience in primary pharmaceutical and chemical research, product development, regulatory affairs, product listing and registration (for both pharmaceuticals and foods), quality management and general management and has been head of fine chemicals and technical services at Epichem since June 2015. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Univeristy of Western Australia and has held a post-doctoral fellowship at Indiana University (USA) in Organic Chemistry.