Robert Joy. Managing Director
Robert has worked in food businesses throughout his life, in food supplement manufacture since the mid 1980’s. He set up Bionutri in 2007 having long been an advocate of Food Supplementation. He was a founding member of Consumers for Health Choice, and as Chairman of the British Health Food Trade Association, Robert was closely involved with representing to government our industry’s voice during the introduction of the Food Supplements Directive, embedding the principle in Government thinking that the free sale of food supplements should be limited by safety alone. The path he set Bionutri towards was one of Integrative Nutrition. Rather than developing a range of isolated nutrients whether alone or in combination Robert was determined to introduce products focused on biological activity and availability in harmony with individual dietary choice.
John Stirling. Technical Director
During his final year studying Biology & Environmental Science in Australia, John was diagnosed with cancer and travelled to Germany for treatment at Dr Josef Issels’ world-famous Ringberg Klinik in Bavaria. He went on to work at the Clinic in Pathology and Biochemistry before moving back to Australia and qualify as a practicing Naturopath. In the mid 1980’s he was invited to England to join the Bristol Cancer Help Centre (now the Penny Brohn Centre) with the task of formulating food supplements relevant to their needs. He then started formulating for several companies before starting his own business BioCare in 1988, which he ran until 2005 when it was acquired by a plc.
In 2010 John joined his old colleague Robert Joy at Bionutri as its Technical Director, bringing his special skills to its product portfolio and development. John and his wife Lisa have four children, four dogs and four guitars. He also loves writing music
Edward Joy. Director Business Development
Ed started out a career as an artist an Illustrator, but after suffering a serious illness in the early 2000’s turned to nutrition, naturopathy and botany, partly to find a way back to good health, but later his passion for herbs and their role in nutrition begun to play a part in Bionutri’s product range. Ed was loosely involved with Bionutri from the start in 2007. These days, as well as presenting practitioner webinars with Sue, he is involved in product development, business development and with Joe, looks after the graphic design and publishing. Ed is also the founder and Managing Director of Bionutri’s sister company Aquasol, which makes a range of pure herbal products.
Fiona Cockerton. Operations Manager
Before joining Bionutri I had over 23 years experience working within large multinational companies working within customer service/sales, then transport and logistics management. In the end I craved working within a smaller company where I would have a greater opportunity to build closer relationships with customers and the team around me, this is what drew me to Bionutri 4 ½ years ago. Here I get the chance to work with a highly qualified, motivated team of people that I can pretty much learn something new from every day. Our team’s main role is to liaise with all our customer and ensure they receive a high quality finished product every time they order and ensure all individual requirements are met to the highest of standards. I’m one of those lucky people who can say they love their job!
Sue McGarrigle. Technical Manager
Sue is a clinical nutritional therapist and naturopath and has practiced since 2001. As a lecturer to college and university students to Masters level, Sue has trained hundreds of healthcare and medical practitioners in many aspects of nutritional therapy. She writes as a regular contributor of specialist nutrition articles for magazines and newspapers and has been a guest speaker at national level. Her current webinars to health professionals and students offer a comprehensive approach to nutrition practice and practical naturopathic techniques. Sue has worked alongside Robert Joy and John Stirling for 21 years and considers the product range, ethos, and expertise within the company to be second to none.
Sue is also a member of the BANT Professional Practice Committee.
Rosie Rayner. Technical Support
Rosie graduated from CNM as a clinical Nutritional Therapist, Naturopath & Iridologist in 2015. Since then she’s run her own clinic, worked at health food stores and held public health talks. In her own time she enjoys adventures in nature with her husband, their daughters and their dogs. With her life-long interest in wellbeing and particularly women’s health, Rosie is passionate about bringing her knowledge together within the Bionutri technical team and helping other practitioners learn about our truly unique products.
Adel Hill. Marketing Administrator
Adel has over 23 years of administrative experience in various settings and oversees all the administration for Bionutri and Aquasol. Adel enjoys her very busy role from arranging weekly webinars, processing orders, liaising with Practitioners and Students, managing stock, responding to queries, no two days are ever the same! In her own time Adel enjoys walking, swimming and the outdoors. Adel has volunteered in South Africa at the International Primate Rescue centre pursuing her love of monkeys! It’s exciting to be part of the Bionutri team and the ethos we stand for.
Joe Reeve. Graphic Design, Publishing and Video Editing
Joe went to Art College and has been involved in video and music production for some years. Working for Bionutri has allowed Joe to use these skills to help create promotional videos and material to showcase the products that Bionutri and Aquasol offer. Bionutri are always looking for new ways to promote their forward thinking ideas, this is where Joe’s skills come in to play. Joe enjoys singing in his band, and has also performed as an Elvis tribute Artist for over 10 years.