ADRIAN LA PORTA

Technical Director and process technology lead, Bryden Wood

Adrian La Porta is a biochemical engineer and chartered chemical engineer. He has spent 30 years in the process industries, working at all stages of capital projects, process development, scale-up, new product introductions, technology development and technical support to operations. He has specialised in pharma and biotech projects from biotech to tablets. He has specialised in shaping critical projects during their early stages and has a strong interest in driving sustainability in the Life Science Industries.

Beginning his career at engineering heavyweight, Fluor in the UK and with their renowned biotech’ team in the USA, he moved to GSK in active pharmaceuticals manufacturing. Moving back into engineering services Adrian has led projects of all sizes and built process engineering capabilities in engineering companies large and small. Similarly he has served clients ranging from academic spin-outs through SME’s to blue-chips. Adrian has been Technical Director and process technology lead at Bryden Wood since 2018 in 2020 he was seconded to the technical team in the UK Vaccines Task Force.