TrakCel has appointed a new director to support its expansion into the US (Insider Media, 2017).

Joe Vitale has been appointed as director of process engineering. He joins from PCT, a Caladrius Company, where he was a senior biomedical engineer.

The appointment follows TrakCel’s recent opening of a second US office in New Jersey, led by Rob Margolin, to support its growth plans.

Ravi Nalliah, chief executive of TrakCel, said “Joe has a vast amount of experience and understanding from the front-line of the cell and gene therapy industry; knowledge that will be extremely beneficial when we are liaising with clients from these industries.”

Joe Vitale said “The company is rapidly growing as the industry is increasingly recognising the need to track and control therapies across multiple stakeholders, so I’m joining at a pivotal time in this corporate journey.”

TrakCel is based in Cardiff. The company has developed a suite of integrated technologies for the cell therapy supply chain (TrakCel, 2017).