Sales Training 2021

Sandy has been working with Shimadzu for over a decade, deriving sales strategies for analytical, scientific and testing products, striving to increase the market share and mentoring a team of 16 talented, dynamic product and market specialists.
She has experience as a Quality Control chemist, learning regulations and documentation in the Pharma business. Then, as an Application Specialist for LCMS & GCMS, she worked towards giving a “total solution” for various markets like food safety, forensics and omics. Even with this, Sandy believes in Kaizen and keeps learning, improving and improvising! Change is the only constant and that’s why she is not afraid of making and embracing changes.

David has strong technical knowledge in separation science, particularly Liquid Chromatograph. Before joining Shimadzu Asia Pacific as LC Product Specialist, he was a medicinal chemist from a highly reputable pharmaceutical organization, accumulated more than 8 years of research experience. Besides technical expertise, he is also capable to share a lot of tips and tricks in overcoming the challenges in performing excellent separation techniques. 

Jackie obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the National University of Singapore, He has garnered over 10 years of research, training, and facilitation experience. Jackie meets scientists from various industries to share technical knowledge and collect feedback, understanding their problems and helping them find well-suited solutions in GC-related analyses.

Kanimozhi is part of the Shimadzu Asia Pacific Informatics Team, providing Laboratory Informatics Solutions such as LabSolutions CS, LIMS, and other QMS applications. She is supporting customers on the implementation of laboratory automation solutions and is responsible for providing consultation on streamlining Lab Workflow, Regulatory Compliance requirements for Electronic Data Management, and Lab Practices/Analysis.

Before joining Shimadzu, Nicole worked in different analytical instrument industries for more than 10 years. She has worked as a Chemist and had experience in the marketing of different technologies. Since the year 2018, Nicole has been responsible for providing marketing and technical support for the LCMS and Spectroscopy instruments in the Asia Pacific region.

Pravin has more than 15 years of industry experience, of which about 10 years in analytical instruments with expertise in trace element analysis applications using AAS, ICP-AES, & ICP-MS. He is engaged primarily in technical support to regional sales teams and customers. Prior to joining the industry, he did his PhD in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT), Mumbai, India. He is currently based in Singapore.

Teck Beng graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Master's Degree in Material Science. He has been providing application support for OES, XRF, XRD, EPMA, SPM, and ESCA for the past 20 years. He has conducted numerous Application Seminars and Workshops on Materials Characterization/Failure Analysis/Restriction of Hazardous Substances in countries supported by Shimadzu Asia Pacific.

Udi Jumhawan is a senior application chemist for LC and LCMS at Shimadzu (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd in Singapore. He has experience in metabolomics, food safety, biosimilar characterization, drug impurity, and forensic toxicology applications. Prior to joining Shimadzu, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Kyushu University, Japan. He holds a PhD degree in biotechnology from Osaka University, Japan.

Dr Wang Tianhua obtained his PhD at Penn Center for Molecular Discovery, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in 2011 under the supervision of Prof Scott Diamond with a research focus on developing therapeutics for blocking SARS, Ebola virus infection.

He then worked in Analytics group at Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore (A*STAR). Over the 5 years at BTI, he served as the Co-PI and lead PI of two research grants (GlycoSing and HighGlycoArt) in establishing High throughput glyco-analytics platform based on Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) for protein therapeutics development.

Dr Wang Joined Shimadzu Asia Pacific as a product specialist in 2017. He is taking care of the life science related products and applications in the South East Asia and South Asia region.