FORMULYTICA - Key Persons

Billie Roughan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management and Directors Team
  • Formulation Director
Billie Roughan is a PhD qualified scientist with 16 years' experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics industries. Billie's previous experiences include diabetes research, transdermal product development, topical pharmaceutical and personal care product development. Billie has a passion for high quality product development to deliver a functional product with a difference to the consumer. Billie leads a dynamic formulation team in product development for topical applications across the pharmaceutical and cosmetic field.

Michael Andrews Luke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management and Directors Team
  • Innovation & Biologics Director
Michael Andrews Luke is a PhD qualified scientist and R&D leader with 19 years' experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics industries. Michael's previous employers include Aesop, Arana Therapeutics, GlaxoSmithKline, and Imunexus. Michael has a passion for creating high quality, innovative products in the consumer and pharmaceutical space. Through his career he has developed a number of new products, as well as early stage drug discovery and delivery technologies. These include formulations to enable the transport of large molecule drugs (biologics) through the skin and the gut, and an engineered bispecific antibody technology for enhancing cancer therapy.

Richard Buchta

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Management and Directors Team
Richard is PhD and MBA qualified with more than 25 years experience in the pharmaceutical and veterinary industry where he has developed numerous vaccines, injectables and topicals. Whilst employed previously with Stiefel Research Laboratories and Glaxo Smith Kline, Richard led project teams developing topical products, which resulted in a number of successful aerosol and foam product launches in the United States. He has also developed a single dose veterinary vaccine technology which has been successfully marketed for the past 20 years.

Rose Ye

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management and Directors Team
  • Analytical Director
Rose is PhD qualified with 24 years pharmaceutical industrial experience. Specialising in analytical method development, validation and stability testing for Rx Cx and OTC products, including Topical, Injectable and Oral dosage forms Rose has more than 17 years experience leading and managing an analytical department to support product development. She has been a CMC leader for a number of products that have been successfully launched and is an expert in analytical techniques with sound theoretical knowledge and practical skills.