Chief Operations Officer
Born in Ghana 1965, Raf was then educated in England to A' level standard, (fluently speaking English, French and Italian)
before joining his father as an International Timber broker. He aided in the design and implementation of
one of the first logistical systems to support the extraction of logs through its life cycle to the manufacturing of
wooden products. This effort entailed assignments in Papa New Guinea, British Guyana, Malawi, Korea and Japan. On
returning to England in 1991, he attended Brighton University, where he met Neil and awarded the best student award in
1993. During and after University became an Oracle programmer and database designer for the International Oil conglomerate
CGG (in London, Paris and Algeria), where he was instrumental in delivering PetroVision. In his own time Raf developed a data
parsing and loading tool which he then used as the foundation to setup his own company in the UK. In 1996 Raf was headhunted
by an American start-up and sold the intellectual rights to his UK venture to an Australian company.
In the States Raf designed and developed integrated information systems, with database and application security to meet FDA
quality assurance and in compliance for the Pharmaceutical industry. This system was heavily involved in system validations,
IQOQ (Installation Qualification and Operational Qualification)
During his 10 years in the States, and as part of the executive team, he helped establish the companies's headquarters in
Philadelphia, building it from the 5 man start-up to 200 employees, when it was sold for $65 million to Thermo Electron in 2004.
His hobbies include golf, playing squash and tennis. His passion is food, owning one of the top fish restaurants in the UK; and is in
the process of writing some culinary books. His personal website is at www.boscardi.com.
