After studying mechanical engineering and physics, Marc spent 6 years in R&D at Océ, developing copiers and printers. He was then lured into the commercial arena and worked in a number of increasingly senior marketing and sales roles at Xeikon, Cardio Control, Intergraph and Scitex, before moving to the UK in 2001 to become a board member of a product development consulting company. He now runs his own company Panchromos Limited, working with young companies to turn their science and technology into marketable products.
Marc has been a regular mentor on i-Teams projects since the start of the programme:
- New methods of manufacturing metal items (Lent 2007)
- Flexible rigid structures (Easter 2007)
- Laser-assisted metal spraying (Michaelmas 2007)
- Low-cost short pulse lasers (Lent 2008)
- A miniature cell-cultivator (Michaelmas 2008)
- Magnetic memory elements (Michaelmas 2008)
- Manufacturing carbon nanotubes at low cost and high volume (Lent 2010)
- Non-labelled and selective detection of bacteria at the point-of-care (Easter 2010)
- Barcode biosensors – developing a new generation of diagnostic devices (Easter 2010)
- Novel uses for a portable, daily, disposable, neuromuscular stimulation device (Lent 2011)
- Multiplex sensing – finding the best application for a new thin film piezoelectric sensor (Lent 2012)
- Lowering the cost of purifying cell populations and biopharmaceutical molecules (Michaelmas 2012)
- Identifying the best markets for porous silicon sensors (Lent 2013)
- Delivering nutrients and medications via breastmilk – developing an appropriate disposable device for use in developing countries (Lent 2014)
- Identifying the market for a low-cost handheld gas chromatography system (Lent 2015)
- Understanding the market for the home-monitoring of edema in heart patients (Lent 2016)
