Ian Marsh

Has 45 years experience in the design and engineering of customised special purpose machinery. This includes plastic and sheet metal dies, automated production line systems for packaging machines, clothing manufacture, transport trucks, livestock crates and aerodynamic designs for the improved performance of heavy road transport trucking equipment. He continues the inventive Kiwi engineering spirit of our forefathers. 

 

Lesley Schofield

Has 30 years experience as a microbiologist working in the laboratory animal industry. She is also a registered RLATg and CMAR and has recently retired from the position of Manager of the largest laboratory animal facility in New Zealand at the University of Otago.

 

John Schofield

It is with great sadness that I have to report that the founding Director of Otawog Systems, John Schofield, passed away suddenly in May 2018. As many of his colleague’s will know, John spent many years in Laboratory Animal Industry, becoming board certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. He had 34 years’ experience as a laboratory animal veterinarian working in biomedical research.

Together with his wife Lesley, he spent 12 years working in Chicago at the University of Illinois Medical Center. Upon returning to New Zealand in 1991, John was appointed to Director of the Department of Laboratory Animal Sciences at the University of Otago, Dunedin and was responsible for the welfare of research animals at the largest laboratory animal facility in New Zealand. John was also involved in teaching graduate students using experimental animals. He developed equipment to assist students and researchers use animals in the most effective and humane manner. His great passion was animal welfare.

Due to John’s death the Company has decided to withdraw the Otawog Compact from its inventory.