Hi, I’m John, Head of GDP Team 2 within Innovation and Compliance team at the MHRA. I have the privilege of managing a talented team of GDP Inspectors with a vast wealth of experience to protect public and patient health. I joined the MHRA from Industry in 2020 and became an accredited GDP inspector in 2021.

My career began in Royal Mail where I continued my logistics career becoming Post Office National Logistics Manager with 25 years of service. Prior to joining the MHRA, I worked for Boots as North-West Distribution Manager during COVID lockdown.

I hold a Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport (CILT) Diploma and have a Transport Manager Certificate of professional competence. (CPC). I’ve been married for 22 years with two grown-up daughters and a rescue dog called Skye!

A former Royal Navy Ship’s Navigator and Diver, Titus is an airline pilot of 25 years’ experience and a Human Factors Instructor who specialises in training teams who need to perform in hazardous work environments. He is qualified to deliver regulatory training to Flight Crews by the European Union Aviation Safety Administration and both the UK’s Military and Civil Aviation Authorities.

Presenting to high performance groups and industries as diverse as Medicine and Logistics, from the UK, Europe and as far afield as Qatar and Nigeria, Titus employs a dynamic and interactive style to deliver easily relatable training models and case examples. His sessions have been proven to enhance communication and decision making, thereby minimising risk while improving efficiency, effectiveness and safety.

Nik Lambeth is responsible for the Quality and Regulatory Assurance agenda for DHL Supply Chains’ Healthcare business unit within the UK. Having worked for DHL for 20 years now, Nik has been dedicated to the Lifesciences & Healthcare sector since 2013 and works with DHL’s customers to ensure the timely and compliant movement of their healthcare products around the world. Nik ensures oversight of DHLs global life sciences and healthcare network, which handles medical devices to early phase clinical trial products and everything in between.

Having more than 30 years industry experience, John was recently appointed Regulatory and Development Director for the Healthcare Distribution Association (which represents those businesses who supply medicines, medical devices and healthcare services to patients, pharmacies, hospitals and doctors).

A registered pharmacist, John was previously Director of Wholesale Quality (RP and RPi) at Phoenix Group UK and Global Head of Quality at Uniphar Group.

Lara has over 15 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, initially working in contract manufacturing and generic manufacturing. More recently her experience has taken in roles as Responsible Person and Responsible Person (Import), alongside building her knowledge of the regulation of medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics.

Lara is a qualified PQG/IRCA Lead Auditor now provides consultancy support for clients working in the medicines wholesale distribution and medical device industries.