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Leadership

Our leadership team is comprised of experienced professionals who bring diverse backgrounds to our global company. They share Trajan's vision and purpose, helping the company pursue opportunities that deliver the greatest positive impact on human wellbeing through science and medicine. With their experience and expertise, Trajan is driving change in the life sciences, food safety, and environmental monitoring.

Board

We invite you to visit Trajan headquarters in Melbourne, Australia and our facilities around the world to meet some of our incredible team who, like us, are supporting science that benefits people.
John Eales
John EalesIndependent Non-Executive Chair

John acts as a Board Advisor to Trajan. He has served as an executive, advisor, director, and investor in several listed public companies and unlisted private organizations. Read more>>

Stephen Tomisich
Stephen TomisichChief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Stephen co-founded Trajan in 2011. He leads Trajan’s senior management team and the Company’s global operations.  
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Robert Lyon
Robert LyonExecutive Director and Head of Corporate Development, and General Counsel

Robert joined Trajan in 2013. He has global responsibility for the strategic growth of Trajan’s business through mergers and acquisitions, licensing arrangements, and commercial relationships. Read more>>

Tiffiny Lewin
Tiffiny LewinNon-Executive Director

Tiffiny brings operational, risk and strategy expertise gained over a 30-year career spanning consumer goods, manufacturing, professional services, and the finance sectors. Read more>>

Rohit Khanna, PhD
Rohit Khanna, PhDNon-Executive Director

Rohit has over 40 years of experience in analytical science, business leadership and laboratory application software. Read more>>

Sara Watts
Sara WattsNon-Executive Director

Sara is an experienced Non-Executive Director (NED) with financial and operational experience across more than 20 years in a range of industries including technology, education, NFP and resources. Read more>>

Management

Trajan’s managers are a talented global team, with deep knowledge and combined expertise in our technologies, capabilities, and the markets we serve. They build strong partnerships and collaborations with our partners in academia, industry and government.
Alister Hodges
Alister HodgesChief Financial Officer

Alister joined Trajan as Chief Financial Officer in 2011. He has experience in senior financial and operational leadership roles with ASX-listed life science companies. Read more>>

Andrew Gooley
Andrew GooleyChief Scientific Officer

Andrew has 40 years of experience in R&D and leads a team of scientists and engineers on a diverse range of projects from medical device development and separation science instrumentation prototyping to consumables for the global analytical science community. Read more>>

Nigel Gilligan
Nigel GilliganChief Operations Officer

Nigel provides operational leadership across all segments of Trajan’s business. His responsibilities include global manufacturing, production engineering and supply chain operations. Read more>>

Sam Evans
Sam EvansSenior Vice President – Customer Relationships

Sam is the head of Trajan’s global commercial team and is also a key member of the Company’s business development team. Sam is responsible for the customer-facing commercial organization, providing customer and market insights and identifying and executing project-based opportunities. Read more>>