Robin Smith

Experience

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  Port Edgar Sailing School

  Apr 1997 - Sept 2000

  RYA Sailing Instructor

  A brilliant summer job whilst studying at University, teaching sailing and sailboat racing to people young and old and from all walks of life. The Forth estuary provided 'a great day at the office' I have the image of the famous Forth Rail bridge etched into my mind...

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  Eaton Williams Group Ltd

  Sept 2001 - Feb 2002

  Graduate Design Engineer

  Royal Society of Arts - 3 month graduate placement Award at Eaton Williams Group. I designed an in wall packaged air-conditioning unit with 4c co-founder Peter Inglis. The success of the placement lead to Eaton Williams becoming 4c Design's first client.

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  4c

  Feb 2002 - now

  4c people are: Curious. Creative. Considered. Commercial.4c is the straight talking, employee owned design and engineering firm. We help companies with what’s next. Our Glaswegian culture is the beating heart of 4c. We love what we do and are fuelled by challenges and opportunities to tell stories, create unique designs and solve complex engineering problems. Our vision is clear and simple – to transform ideas into valuable solutions.4c Group comprises 4c Design (Glasgow) 4c Engineering (Inverness) together with Senesino UK & Australia together with a number of other spin-out and associated company interests both at home and abroad. 4c Group is expanding its activities through conceptualising, designing, developing and taking effective, efficient and unique engineered solutions to a wide range of industry and societal problems in partnership, to market. Show less Since 2002 our designs have helped to grow our clients' businesses making them more profitable by increasing their market share, protecting them from competition and creating new intellectual property.By encouraging businesses to prioritise design and innovation, we help them adapt to changing market conditions while maintaining stability. We assist our clients in adopting a structured approach to design and innovation while offering guidance on how to protect, develop and exploit their intellectual property.It is the diversity of experience that keeps 4c innovative. We have worked for hundreds of different companies in all sectors; from designing for Queen Elizabeth (Commonwealth Baton 2014) to Waste to Energy power stations to novel Australian Sheep vaccines and North Sea fast rescue craft, to infant baby monitors... there is never a dull day in the studio/workshop. If you don't believe us, take a look the video clips below! Show less

  • CEO | 4c Group

    Oct 2018 - now

  • Mananging Director | Founder

    Feb 2008 - Jan 2019

  • R&D Director | Founder

    Feb 2002 - Feb 2008
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  Senesino (Numnuts®)

  May 2017 - now

  Founder | Inventor

  Since 2009 I have been working in an R&D capacity on pain relief technology to improve farm animal welfare. Now in its 3rd year since launch over 5 million Australian lambs have benefited from using the Numnuts® Device and NumOcaine® Anaesthetic. In 2021 our technology was launched in New Zeland. In 2024 the Scottish Government confirmed that Numunts can be used in Scotland on lambs up to 12weeks of age.To facilitate the scale-up of Senesino's technology into the agricultural/veterinary market, I was awarded a distinguished Global Talent visa by the Australian government and have moved (with my family) from my native Scotland to Brisbane and Tasmania 2019-2022.Senesino Ltd was created as a spin-out business from 4c Group to commercialise the Numnuts® device. The technology developed has many applications in improving the safety of drug delivery both in the animal and human health sectors. We are interested in talking to the pharmaceutical industry about technology transfer of our patented drug delivery and tamperproof packaging solutions under licence.The stakeholders in Senesino are 4c, The Moredun Foundation, Meat & Livestock Australia, A private Vet investor & Australian Wool Innovation. Technology development and R&D was carried out in partnership with CSRIO Australia, FD McMaster Laboratory, Armidale Show less