Our Team

The Magnetic Shields Limited team brings together accomplished business leadership with experienced engineers.

David Woolger

Managing Director

David Woolger

Colin Woolger

Chairman

Colin Woolger

Colin Woolger

Nick Murby

Development Director

Nick Murby

Nick Murby

Bartel van der Veek

Sales and Operations Director

Bartel van der Veek

Bartel van der Veek

Ellie Dadswell

Human Resources Manager

Ellie Dadswell

Ellie Dadswell

Suzanne Mckay

Production Manager

Dr. Elena Boto

Dr. Elena Boto is a co-founder and Cerca’s chief technology officer. Elena is an award-winning physicist who has been working with next-generation human imaging since 2014.

Elena has been the lead author on many of the seminal papers which have led to the neuroscience community considering wearable technology as a viable alternative to the current state of the art. Elena was originally trained in physics at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and has a Ph.D. in Physics from UoN.

Dr. Elena Boto

Dr. Elena Boto is a co-founder and Cerca’s chief technology officer. Elena is an award-winning physicist who has been working with next-generation human imaging since 2014.

Elena has been the lead author on many of the seminal papers which have led to the neuroscience community considering wearable technology as a viable alternative to the current state of the art. Elena was originally trained in physics at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and has a Ph.D. in Physics from UoN.

Suzanne Mckay

Suzanne Mckay

James Chalmers

Research and Development Manager

James Chalmers

James Chalmers

Freya Jackson

Financial Controller

Freya Jackson

Freya Jackson

Courtney Veenswyk-Colvin

Strategic Projects Manager

Courtney Veenswyk-Colvin

Courtney Veenswyk-Colvin

Prof. Richard Bowtell

Advisory Board

Prof. Richard Bowtell

Professor Richard  Bowtell will chair Cerca’s Advisory Board.  Richard is the Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at  the University of Nottingham and served as the Head of the School of Physics  and Astronomy from 2008-2014.

He has more than 35 years’ experience of developing novel biomedical imaging systems, with a particular interest in  electromagnetic coil design. Richard is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics  and of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and is  Past President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and  Biology.

Rosemarie Pardington

Advisory Board

Rosemarie Pardington

Rosemarie Pardington is Director of Integrated Care at Young Epilepsy and will be a part of Cerca’s Advisory Board.

Rosemarie has over 30 years of experience working at a senior level in the Health & Social Care profession, both in the public and voluntary sector.  Rosemarie’s role brings leadership and responsibility for all aspects of health, research and residential operations at Young Epilepsy. Rosemarie will provide insight and guidance to the Cerca Magnetics team on the application of the technology especially in relation to children and young adults with Epilepsy.  She has also been part of the team responsible for enabling the new room to be installed at Lingfield, Surrey

Margot Taylor

Advisory Board

Margot Taylor

Dr. Margot Taylor received her doctorate from McGill and in 1981 was recruited to SickKids in Neurology as Director of Evoked Potential Labs. In this position, she established a wide range of clinical and research applications of evoked and event-related potentials in paediatrics. She moved to Toulouse, France in 1998 as Directeur de Recherche, CNRS. Taylor was recruited back to SickKids in 2004, as Director of Functional Neuroimaging in Diagnostic Imaging.

Her research centres on the use of MEG, fMRI and MRI to understand the neural bases of cognitive development and includes clinical populations, such as youth with autism and very preterm-born children. Margot will provide insight and guidance to the Cerca Magnetics team on the application of the technology especially in relation to children.