The Presenter
Adam Ladak
(Senior Strategic Scientific Marketing Manager, Food and Environment Business Operations,
Waters Corporation, Milford, Massachusetts, USA)
Adam Joined Waters in 2008 as part of the mass spectrometry application lab. As Senior Strategic Scientific Marketing Manager he works closely with the scientific team to generate application data in the food and environment arena. Adam also assesses scientific projects for the viability and business impact. His role involves working with Waters' labs worldwide and visiting Waters' customers to conduct mass spectrometry focused seminars. Adam also attends conferences internationally to present data from the food and environment scientific team.
Adam has worked in mass spectrometry for over 12 years. Before joining Waters he worked at the Horse Racing Forensic lab (HFL). He held the position of the client manager for the supplement and feed team in the drug surveillance group. The team was responsible for the testing of sports supplements and equine feeds for prohibited substances. The role included developing extraction and analytical methods for GC-MS and LC-MS.
Adam joined Waters as part of the MS application team focusing on GC-MS analysis. This included performing customer demonstrations on GC magnetic sectors, tandem quadrupoles and time of flight instruments. Adam transferred to the US application lab in 2011 where he focused on Tof technology, ion mobility and atmospheric pressure GC for food, environmental, chemical materials, metabolomics and metabolite identification application. He joined the food and environment business operations team in 2015.
Adam has a degree in forensic science from the University of Glamorgan (South Wales).