Our team
Our employees are at the core of our business. For over 10 years, our team has been successfully producing a wide variety of challenging recombinant proteins demonstrating its know-how in the development of competitive bioprocesses.
GTP currently employs 20 experienced and dynamic staff members. This workforce includes PhDs, university graduates, engineers and technicians.
All GTP employees receive regular quality assurance training and are personally committed to providing the highest level of service to all our customers.
Management
Eric Devic, PharmD, PhD
Founder, President and COO
Eric obtained a PharmD at Montpellier and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Toulouse. After 3 years spent as a research associate at Stanford University Medical School, Eric came back to France to found GTP Technology.
Hervé Ginisty, PhD
CSO
Hervé received a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale) in Toulouse. After working on a post graduate assignment in Human Genetics at INSERM, Herve joined GTP in 2002, bringing its expertise in recombinant proteins expression.
Christopher Pease, MSc
CEO
After graduating as a biochemical engineer from INSA Lyon, Christopher joined Millipore where he spent the following 20 years in diverse positions. Innovation has been a common theme throughout his professional experience. In his last position, Christopher was vice president of a business unit, dedicated to the global beverage and biopharmaceutical industries. Christopher joined GTP in 2010, attracted by this entrepreneurial challenge.
Project Management
Thomas Duvignau, MSc
Technical Platform Manager
Thomas graduated as biochemical engineer from INSA Toulouse. After one year spent at Sanofi Pasteur as Research Engineer, working on yeast and mammalian cells culture, Thomas joined GTP in 2008 as Manager of Production Platform. Thomas is now in charge of managing both Upstream and Downstream activities.
Sandrine Blanié, MSc
Project Leader
After obtaining a Master's degree on Recombinant protein production from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, Sandrine joined GTP in 2000. She initially managed the Purification Platform and then moved on to managing customer's projects. Sandrine has over 10 years experience working on recombinant protein production.
Thomas Cortese, MSc
Project Leader
Thomas holds a Master's degree on Recombinant protein production from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. He joined GTP in 2007 to manage customer's projects. He has over 4 years experience in recombinant protein production.
Nathalie Miraglio, MSc
Project Leader
Nathalie graduated as engineer in biotechnology from ESIL. She joined GTP in 2003 to lead the Molecular Biology Platform. She is in charge of customer's projects since 2007.
Nicolas Tremillon, PhD
Project Leader
Nicolas received a PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Paris 11 University. Working on the secretion of proteins by Lactococcus lactis bacteria, Nicolas has a strong background on GTP's Lactxpress system. He is now in charge of managing customer's projects.
Customer relation and communication
Séverine Hountondji, Msc
Business development
Séverine graduated as biochemical engineer from INSA Toulouse. After holding several positions as sales engineer and application specialist, Severine joined GTP in 2006 to be in charge of business development and marketing.