Manu Grover holds a postgraduate degree in Pharmacy and Management with 24+ years of experience in chromatography. He has worked with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Dr. Reddy’s, Panacea Biotec, and Ozone Pharmaceuticals, supporting IND, NDA, and ANDA filings. He specializes in analytical method development and validation using HPLC, GC, particle sizing, DSC, pXRD, and LC/MS, and has filed multiple analytical dossiers for EU markets. At Agilent Technologies, he leads strategic marketing initiatives and workflow programs for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors across North America and Canada, focusing on market trends, customer alignment, and targeted engagement.

William Long (Bill) received his B.S. degree from University of Delaware.  He completed his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, where part of his research included analysis of derivatized amino acids.  He worked at Himont/Montell Polyolefins/Basell in Wilmington Delaware and Elkton Maryland as a Research Scientist where he provided analytical support in HPLC, Polymer Fractionation, Size Exclusion Chromatography, and Regulatory Extractable Analysis in the development of new polymers and additives.  He joined Agilent Technologies in 2001 where he currently works as an Application Scientist. His work has included Automated Method Development, Applications Development using Poroshell 120 columns for Food and Pharmaceutical Analysis and Analysis of Fermentation processes using off line and on-line methods.   He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum. He was a past member of the USP Council of Experts, Chemical Medicines 6, 2015-2020.

Sierra Durham PhD is an LC/MS Applications Scientist covering LC/QQQ and LC/Q-TOF analysis. Prior to joining Agilent Sierra completed her PhD and postdoc at University of California, Davis doing small molecule LC/MS and GC/MS analysis and earned her bachelor's in Chemistry from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Matthew Curtus joined Agilent in 2013 as a GC/MS applications scientist in the Santa Clara, CA Center of Excellence.  His primary responsibility is focused on providing instrument demos for customer interested in each technology Agilent offers; the GC/MS single quadrupole, triple quadrupole and the quadrupole Time-of-Flight.  The variety of different samples submitted to the demo lab provide a unique knowledge of optimizing parameters for different applications to provide the best quality data from the instrument. 

Natalie graduated from the University of Utah with a BS in biology in 2004.  She joined ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City in 2005. She worked in a clinical toxicology lab, preparing and analyzing meconium, urine, and serum samples by enzyme immunoassay and mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS and LC-(Q)TOF-MS). After moving into the research and development department she coordinated a head injury study with the University of Utah football team, developed and improved mass spec-based diagnostic tests, collaborated in research studies, presented at national conferences, and contributed to peer-reviewed publications and application notes. Natalie joined Agilent as a LC Column Applications Scientist in August 2017. She supports a sales team in the western US and Canada, consults with customers, and works with her colleagues to develop applications.

Emmett Soffey is an ICP-MS Product Specialist at Agilent, in Seattle, Washington. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. Prior to Agilent, he worked at Brookhaven National Labs studying acid rain in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York, and then went on to work at a number of commercial analytical labs operating GC and GC/MS. 

Miles Bradshaw, PhD, is a Pre-Sales Application Engineer on the Agilent OpenLab Sync team (formerly SLIMS), where he helps laboratories leverage modern informatics to digitize and connect their analytical workflows. Over the past 10 years at Agilent, Miles has supported customers across a range of complex challenges, including digitizing analytical workflows, applying AI and machine learning to asset performance management, addressing GMP compliance and data integrity, and advancing lab process automation across the life sciences industry. Prior to joining Agilent, he worked in method development for analytical and molecular microbiological testing. Miles holds a PhD in biophysics with a research focus on protein structure and enzyme activity, giving him a strong scientific foundation for both the bench-level and computational challenges that modern digital workflows are designed to solve.

Sofia Givelos is a Product Specialist in Molecular Spectroscopy at Agilent Technologies, based in Austin, Texas. She supports spectroscopy solutions across multiple regions in the United States. Sofia combines a strong scientific background in biology with business acumen from her master’s in management of applied science at Western University, enabling her to effectively bridge technical expertise and customer needs.