Brad Swarbrick
Brad Swarbrick is the Managing Director and cofounder of KAX Group, an global company that provides multivariate data analysis (MVDA) software and solutions for a number of industries, mainly focussed on pharmaceutical applications of Chemometrics, PAT and QbD when applied to spectroscopic and process data.
Brad has over 25 years of experience in the application of Chemometrics and Design of Experiments (DoE) methodology in a wide range of industries, including agriculture, petrochemical and pharmaceuticals. Until recently, Brad was the Chief Operating Officer of a world leading provider of the Chemometrics software prior to founding KAX Group where he successfully brought a number of new software developments and large projects to commercial reality. Brad worked in the pioneering Pfizer Process Analytical Technology (PAT) group, developed the entire NIR program for Sigma (now Aspen) pharmaceuticals and worked as a GMP consultant for one of SE Asia’s largest pharmaceutical consultancy groups.
Brad has a unique combination of technical and business skills that have allowed him achieve the many business objectives that his clients are now enjoying. Brad is a globally recognized expert trainer in Chemometrics and Design of Experiment methodology and has many years of expertise in Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and Process Analytical Technology (PAT). Brad is the current section editor of pharmaceuticals, for the Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, has co-written the well-known Multivariate Data Analysis in Practice (6th Edition) with Professor Kim Esbensen and has also written a number of textbook chapters on NIR and Chemometrics, in particular the popular short book “Multivariate Analysis for Dummies” and most recently has contributed two chapters on NIR spectroscopy and Chemometrics into the Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering (Volume 3).
Brad has a Ph.D. in Biospectroscopy and Advanced Chemometrics and also holds a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Chemistry and an honours degree in Chemometrics.