Mark Perkins is a senior applications chemist at Element Materials Technology Laboratory Instrumentation in Cambridge, United Kingdom (formerly Anatune), and a global authority in automated SIFT-MS. Dr Perkins has extensive experience in both conventional chromatographic methods as well as SIFT-MS. Prior to joining Anatune in 2015, he spent 12 years as a senior analyst and chromatography section manager at the Malaysian Rubber Board's UK research centre, working on regulated pharmaceutical applications within a GMP environment.

Vaughan Langford obtained BSc(Hons) and PhD degrees in chemistry at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He then completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Western Australia (Perth, Australia). He moved from optical spectroscopy to SIFT-MS upon taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Canterbury in late 2002. The commencement of this fellowship coincided with the founding of Syft Technologies where Dr Langford has worked ever since. He has extensive experience in SIFT-MS application and method development plus data interpretation. Additionally, from 2005 to 2018 he managed a small contract testing service using SIFT-MS, from sample analysis through to reporting and quality assurance. Dr Langford is active in providing SIFT-MS training (both in the science and application) and publishing in the literature on the diverse applications of SIFT-MS (40 peer-reviewed publications, including 9 book chapters and reviews).