Meet our pharma and bio-pharma team

Brendan FlatteryManaging Director, Access ERP

Brendan joined Access in April 2020 and brings insightful leadership to Access ERP which includes the highly successful Financial Management and Supply Chain divisions.

Brendan brings extensive industry experience having worked in software companies across a variety of industries for over 20 years. Brendan’s previous roles include President of Sage, Europe and Chief Commercial Officer at Zellis. Brendan is passionate about customers and has driven significant growth in previous roles through a laser focus on the customer experience.

An entrepreneur at heart, Brendan has also served as Managing Director of two venture capitalist backed technology businesses, as well as working for Private Equity backed businesses and running his own small business.

Neil RushbyCustomer Success and Professional Services Director at Access Group (ERP division)

Neil has over 30 years of consulting, programming and project management experience in the manufacturing and distribution industry. His insight into the industry has led him to specialise in IT, ERP and MRP consultancy.

His wealth of experience includes implementing a range of ERP systems within many sectors. Neil has successfully advised several clients on improving working practices and offer added benefit, alongside supporting clients with implementing an ERP system.

Using his industry knowledge and expertise, he now oversees the professional services delivery in the ERP division - ensuring our customers get the best possible service.

Mike StraitonOrchestrate Founder

Mike joined the Access Group in 2014 when Access acquired Production Modelling, the company that founded by him in 1991. This was a company dedicated to the improvement of manufacturing processes through the application of simulation modelling, planning and scheduling software.

In 2004, in response to customer requests, he led the design, development and implementation of the class leading Orchestrate planning and scheduling software that is used today in a wide range of industries and in countries throughout the world. His industry experience includes pharmaceutical, oil, automotive, aerospace, nuclear, food and drink, electronics, chemical and household products.

Today, as part of the Access Group, he focuses on customer success. He continues to enjoy applying his extensive knowledge and experience of planning, lean manufacturing, and process improvement techniques to help ensure that customers are able to achieve measurable cost savings and increases in productivity.

Rod SchregardusBusiness Development Manager

As one of the original team members for Access Orchestrate, Rod has significant experience in helping companies with their day-to-day scheduling, capacity planning and what-if analysis.

His career originated in the automotive industry designing and installing manufacturing facilities across Europe using Discrete Event Simulation. Rod subsequently has held Consulting roles and delivered new capital and productivity improvement projects within a wide variety of industries including pharmaceutical, oil and gas, aerospace, food and drink and the service sector to name a few.

Having worked within the Access Orchestrate team since 2008, I have helped grow the solution from ‘the world’s best-kept secret’ to a market-leading Advanced Planning and Scheduling application that is used daily within companies globally.

Andres BertaniSolution Design Manager

Andres started his career in Argentina as a Strategic Planning Analyst, creating capacity models and feasibility studies for the manufacturing Industry.

He moved into a Production Engineering position and managed the production of an aluminium rolling process with its 114 employees on 24/7 shifts. These experiences forged a strong manufacturing base and a sincere passion for planning and scheduling that he can bring to bear delivering practical solutions to customers.

Andres joined the Access Orchestrate team in 2016, delivering projects in the manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries all over the world.
He holds an Industrial Engineer degree with a specialisation in Operational Research. In 2017 he completed a Masters Degree in Business Administration at Aston University.

George RadfordConsultant

As the first-ever support team member for Access Orchestrate, George has a long history with the Orchestrate product. His performance and focus on customer satisfaction have led to George moving internally to hold a Consulting role within Access and has now been consulting for the Orchestrate product for over 4 years.

Since starting the consultancy role, he has delivered many high-profile Pharmaceutical projects internationally for big names and continues to provide best in class delivery for one of the markets leading planning tools.

A strong technical head, professional attitude and dedication to the customer is what makes George such a valued member of the team and Access as a whole.

Dan ZhongPrinciple Developer

Dan is one of the original members of the Orchestrate development team and has held key development roles since 2006. He is an experienced Principal Developer with a strong track record of working in the computer software industry.

Dan has extensive knowledge of Planning and Scheduling, Software Implementation, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Solution Architecture, Analytical Skills, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C#, T-SQL. Strong operations professional with a Master of Science (MSc) degree focused on IT for Manufacture from University of Warwick.

Charnjit Singh DharivalTechnical Support Engineer

Charnjit is the most experienced support engineer for Access Orchestrate and helped enhance and suggest new features for the product, to make it easier to plan and use. He has worked for the Access Group for 3 years and supporting Orchestrate for 2 and a half years.

Charnjit has worked for numerous supply chain/logistics and manufacturing companies in the past, in an IT support or application support capacity, and understands the industry and business requirements involved.

He supports customers from all over the world and looks forward to supporting new customers to make use of the best scheduling and planning application available on the market, with numerous advanced features.