Paul graduated from Murdoch University as a microbiologist and completed a number of research contracts with the Center for Rhizobium studies looking into the genetics and biochemistry of the organism.

In the mid 1980's Paul established his own pharmaceutical manufacturing concern which serviced hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry throughout Australasia. After twenty years manufacturing pharmaceuticals, Paul retired to become a consultant to a variety of Australian manufacturing industries for five years, in areas as diverse as building other pharmaceutical plants, establishing quality systems and improving productivity. Pauls areas of expertise are business administration, manufacturing and quality control.

Paul joined ALOSCA in mid 2009 and looks forward to bringing his experience to ALOSCA and engaging the inoculants industry.

Chris' appointment as Technical Manager in September of 2004 followed an 18 year involvement with broad acre crop and pasture input development and evaluation. He worked within the Pastures Group at the WA Department of Agriculture and The Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA) for 14 years collectively where his technical role was involved with the evaluation of new annual and perennial pasture varieties. In March 2000 Chris took up a position with rural merchandise company IAMA, later to become Landmark AWB, where he oversaw their broad acre product testing program for the WA grain belt.

Within ALOSCA Technologies Chris' is principally involved with the bacterial culturing and granulation of the product range as well as laboratory and field evaluation of new and existing product lines. Chris sees ALOSCA Technologies' commitment to product consistency and quality assurance along with sound product information as the key drivers to the success of the ALOSCA product range.

Chris is a good point of contact if you have any product usage or application queries.

I obtained a Degree in Biology at The Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela (1995). After being awarded an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, I completed a Doctor of Philosophy program (2002) in which I acquired the ability to conduct research orientated towards Microbiology and Molecular Biology technology. Before joining Alosca Technologies Pty. Ltd., I worked as a Research Officer at The Animal Health Laboratories in The Department of Agriculture Western Australia for 18 months, evaluating the use of molecular biology technology such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Real-Time PCR for the development of new tests for the diagnosis of pathogenic microorganisms in animals. I also have three years experience as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Rhizobium Studies in Murdoch University working in projects that examined the bio diversity of native root nodule bacteria in Western Australia and to determine the phylogenetic relationship among genomic species. During the last three years I have also had the pleasure demonstrating in Microbiology, Cell Biology and Genetics laboratory units at Murdoch University.

Robyn’s appointment as office manager in 2008 allowed Alosca to provide a new focus on customer satisfaction.  Robyn’s work experience has a clear focus in the areas of administration and more importantly customer service.  This experience ranges from many years in the banking sector culminating in a number of roles within the agricultural sector as customer service supervisor through to office Manager. Experience in MYOB and accounting activities allows Robyn to provide exceptional administrative support.

Robyn prides herself on ensuring customers are 100% satisfied on every occasion.

Michael Price - Board Chairman

Michael Price was appointed Chairman of ALOSCA in October 2009. Michael has a Bachelor of Economics (B Ec) and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of WA in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD).

Michael has broad commercial experience via an extensive career in the finance sector variously holding responsibility for business and risk portfolio’s encompassing numerous industries including manufacturing and agriculture. Post leaving the finance sector he was the Chief Operating Officer for one of Australia’s largest sector specific funds management businesses with responsibility for circa 20 public trusts prior to its sale.

Steve Carr has been involved in agricultural research, development and extension for over 20 years, and has an enviable record of applied and practical achievement from his work. He began his career with the Department of Agriculture researching aspects of soil acidity and plant nutrition. During his PhD studies, Steve developed a soil test to identify subsoil Al toxicity on the naturally acidic sand plain soils in the eastern wheat belt.

Steve then worked with CLIMA in pasture and forage legume breeding and selection, and during this period made significant contribution to the new directions in Australian pasture improvement. Steve played a key role in the release of several pasture legume cultivars including Cadiz French serradella, Casbah biserrula (a world first for this species), Caprera crimson clover and Cefalu arrowleaf clover. These cultivars are now dominating many new pasture sowings throughout Australia.

With a comprehensive knowledge of farm systems and a capacity to contribute new developments, Steve and colleague Angelo Loi developed the ALOSCA dry clay based granule system. Their research focus on introducing new legumes into farming systems highlighted the value a granular inoculant system would have in Australian farming. Maximising nitrogen input from legumes is critical for sustainable farming, and emerging changes to farming practice (eg dry sowing of crop and pasture legumes) are severely limited by the old peat based inoculation approach.