Stan Curtis

Chief Executive Stan Curtis graduated in Electrical Engineering and has spent over 40 years in the electronics industry both as a designer; designing over 450 commercially manufactured products, and as a director of many businesses. He has led many start-ups as well as mergers, acquisitions and exits.

His career has mainly been spent in the consumer electronics and instrumentation industries where he has led a number of start-up companies as well as managing companies having turnovers of hundreds of millions of pounds. He has been responsible for a number of innovations and has good relationships with university research teams and manufacturing companies in Europe, the USA and China. Prior to RoboScientific he was Technical Director of Trolex Limited; a leading UK manufacturer of instrumentation for hazardous environments.

Tim Gibson

Dr Tim Gibson is Chief Scientific Officer of Roboscientific Ltd and has a BSc in medical biochemistry and a PhD in applied biotechnology, specifically in the field of diagnostics. He has over 30 years experience in creating and developing volatile organic compound (VOC) sensors both in the academic field and in commercial enterprises. He has detailed knowledge in VOC sampling systems and the application of VOC sensors for the detection of many disease related volatile chemicals, the so-called VOC biomarkers  His work has led to many real-life uses in  Agri-Food and Healthcare, where the detection of VOCs creates a ‘smell fingerprint’ to enable identification of specific diseases.

Ben Curtis

Project Manager Ben Curtis has been running the projects and liaising with our trial partners and collaborators since 2015.  Before this he was a journalist and then PR in the consumer electronics industry.  Ben is used to working with others to achieve difficult goals on tight deadlines.  His grasp of the technology and its potential takes us into uncharted waters where we are beginning to enjoy some success.

Angela Curtis

Angela Curtis has spent her career building brands and opening markets.  A serial entrepreneur,  Angie has established global distribution for a consumer electronics brand, built a trade publishing house and run her own PR and marketing consultancy.

Angie brings a fresh perspective to the Agri-Tech space which is all about identifying customer needs and delivering the solutions that will meet them.  A compulsive networker, Angie is enthusiastic about working with the key influencers to create opportunities for farmers to reduce waste, increase yields and improve the quality of the food they produce. 

The potential that has now been inveiled to make a real difference as the world struggles to find a safe way forward by providing easy reliable and fast detection of diseases such as Covid-19 is a reward and a challenge she is relishing.