Leadership Team

Boon Aik Tan - Director

Boon brings strong technical, operational, and quality management experience to the organisation.

Prior to taking ownership of Epichem, Boon held senior roles within the company as Quality Manager and Head of Analytical Services, where he was responsible for overseeing laboratory quality systems, analytical operations, and compliance requirements. He has also served as Operations and Quality Manager at Nanollose, with a focus on elevating operational and quality systems to internationally recognised standards.

Boon is certified in LEAN Six Sigma and is qualified as a NATA ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 17034 technical assessor. He has extensive experience implementing and maintaining quality management systems, including ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025, and ISO 17034.

Boon graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Chemistry. With years of experience in analytical services, laboratory quality, client liaison, and multinational business environments, Boon is committed to strengthening Epichem’s technical excellence, compliance culture, and customer-focused service.

Dr James Rixson – General Manager

James is a technical expert in organic chemistry and a tenacious problem solver. He joined the chemistry team at Epichem in 2014, and leads the team in delivering the highest quality custom products, technical solutions, reference standards, impurities and degradants.

James has expertise in a diverse range of organic synthesis including natural products, alkaloids, polycyclic aromatics, active pharmaceutical ingredients and their derivatives. He is highly skilled in method development and route planning, isolation, purification and compound characterisation, and can help you with small scale compound library preparation, large scale synthesis and other specialty chemistries such as deuteration and chiral synthesis. He has a proven track record as an expert problem solver and drives innovation through his out-of-the-box thinking style.

James has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Western Australia and joined Epichem after completing an internship at a multinational pharmaceutical company.