APC, or the Applied Process Company, a process development, design and innovation organization, has appointed David Downey and Eoin McManus to its executive team.

These appointments reflect the significant and ongoing growth of APC’s business, with a doubling of headcount to 120 in the last two years.

Mr. Downey was most recently with Almac Group as vice president of commercial operations within the drug product business unit and brings more than twenty years of experience in business development, marketing and client management with a proven track record of building and developing successful outsource organizations.

Mr. McManus was most recently with Eli Lilly and Company as business unit leader, Kinsale operations, leading its engineering function. With a proven track record in leading R&D, technical transfer, manufacturing and engineering organizations, he has championed the implementation of novel technologies such as continuous processing within the company.

Based at APC headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, Mr. Downey and Mr. McManus will report to Mark Barrett, APC’s chief executive officer.

“We are delighted to welcome David and Eoin to APC during this very exciting period in our company history,” said Mr. Barrett. “Both are excellent additions to our management team and join at a time when we are seeing unprecedented demand for our innovative capabilities and services accelerating breakthrough innovations in cell therapies, personalized oncology therapies and viral vector technologies for many of our client partners.