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Belinda gained a degree in Biological Sciences at Lancaster University and soon after completing her degree joined the brewing industry. Belinda is currently the Quality Manager at Adnams Brewery, Southwold, England.
Prior to joining Adnams Belinda worked for Greene King Brewery as Laboratory Technician, Senior Technician, and finally as Quality Trainer before moving to Adnams.

Iain Shuell is 31 years old and originates from Toronto, Canada. His first introduction to the brewing industry was in Den Haag, in the Netherlands, while on a student/work visa. He worked for one year at an Allied-Domeq brewpub where he was trained in the dispense and production of cask ales and lagers. A year later, Iain returned home intent on becoming a brewer. After 3 weeks of badgering the brewmaster at his local brewery, he landed a position in the packaging department.

Sarah graduated in 1999 from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, with a degree in Brewing and Distilling. She worked at Young’s Brewery, Wandsworth, from 1999 to 2002 as a laboratory analyst and duty brewer. In 2002 Sarah joined AB Vickers, Burton upon Trent, to provide technical support for the company's beer clarification products.

Sarah has been a committee member for the IBD Midland Section for 2 years and is also secretary for the Heriot Watt University Former Brewing Students Association
 

After completing my degree I spent a year overseas then upon my return in 2001 I started work with Castlemaine Perkins in the Laboratory. I worked as a Laboratory Technician and Microbiologist for two years. In 2004 I moved across to brewing in a development Brewer role. In 2005 I became a Brewing Team Leader and as of the beginning of 2006 I am combining my previous two roles by spending 3-4 months of the year as a relief Team Leader and the rest in the Brewer role. I am currently studying towards my Diploma in Brewing qualification.

John has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Power) degree from Papua New Guinea University of Technology and has passed the 2004 Diploma in Brewing 3 (AME 3)
He is currently Projects Engineer & Safety Coordinator at SP Brewery. His tasks include
supervising all engineering projects, liaising with contractors, and the set up of a brewery wide safety system.
 

Paul Feasey is currently the Brewing Manager at the Lion Nathan Swan Brewery in Perth. He joined Lion Nathan in June 2005 originally as the Brewing Manager at the South Australian Brewery Company in Adelaide, before transferring to Perth in March 06.
Prior to joining Lion Nathan he spent nearly 10 years with Diageo’s Guinness operations. His Guinness career began in 1995 in R&D working on RTD’s and supporting the London brewery operations, before moving to Guinness Africa Technical in 1998.

As Development Brewer he did project roles in East and West Africa, the Middle East and Israel.
Following 2 years as a Shift Manager at the home of Guinness in Dublin he returned to a technical support role based in London as Continuous Improvement Manager for West Africa and Jamaica. Prior to leaving Guinness he spent 6 months as Brewing Manager in Benin in Nigeria and a three month secondment as Process Innovation Manager for Diageo Global Supply marketing.
In 1995 he was awarded his degree in Industrial Food Technology from the University of Humberside and obtained his Master Brewer qualification from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in 2003.

Caroline Aspridis graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2002 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Chem)/Bachelor of Arts. She began working at Foster’s Australia (then CUB) Abbotsford Brewery in Melbourne on their Graduate Program. For two years Caroline was exposed to many parts of the business (both operational and corporate) and even included a short time working at the Cascade Brewery in Hobart.
She now works in the Brewing Operations department at Abbotsford and after experience in other areas of brewing, Caroline manages the Filtration and Storage teams.

African Representative
 

International Section Representative
 

Nella Jansson is from Finland, 27 years old, M.Sc. in Engineering, working for Scottish & Newcastle UK at Berkshire Brewery in the UK as a team leader in Keg Racking Department. Previously worked in other breweries in Europe in the S&N group as part of an International Graduate Programme. Hoping to pass the last module in Diploma in Brewing next spring!

Irish Representatives
 

Breda graduated from Cork Institute of Technology (formerly Cork Regional Technical College) in 1994 with a Diploma in Food Science and Technology. She then went to work for James Daly & Son; Churchfield, Margarine Manufacturer followed by AID (Agricultural & Industrial Development ) Laboratory. She subsequently returned to full time education from the workplace in 1997 to complete a Higher Diploma in Food Science and Technology, going on to a BSc in Food Technology in 2000. 

She joined Diageo Ireland Limited on a student

Brian graduated from Cork Institute of Technology (formerly Cork Regional Technical College) in 1997 with a B.Eng. in Chemical and Process Engineering. He joined Irish Distillers, Midleton, Co. Cork, Ireland in December 1997 on a one year contract as an Environmental Engineer to assist in the company’s application for an Integrated Pollution Control License. He then moved to MW Consultants (now Parsons) in 1999 where he worked as a Project Engineer in Irish Distillers assisting the Irish Distillers Group Engineering Manager in the implementation of the Capital expansion programme at Midleton Distilleries.