Our Team

The Robot Whisperer has provided liquid handling automation services to life scientists in start-ups, academic labs, and Fortune 500 companies since 2007. We help our clients in biotech, diagnostics, manufacturing, R&D, and drug discovery achieve their goals with a range of services from optimizing existing process steps to developing complete automated processes, on platforms from Tecan, Hamilton, Beckman, Agilent, Gilson, and others.

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Rita Vicaire

CWO and Founder

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Hans Lüdemann

General Manager

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John Alford

Senior Automation Engineer

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Hamza El Ousrouti

Robotics Software Automation Engineer II

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Cody Wold

Service Engineer

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Leo Zhao

Software Automation Engineer Co-op

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Aaron Vicaire

Automation Engineer

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Kathi Vicaire

Financial Administrator

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Oswald AKA Ozzy

The Robot