It All Comes Back to the People

Candace Toner is the Chief Executive Officer of Biomatters Ltd, a multi-award winning, New Zealand-based scientific software development company.  Biomatters’ flagship application, Geneious Pro, is used for DNA sequence analysis and disease research by tens of thousands of researchers in over 60 countries.

Having had prior responsibilities in managing the development of a market vertical approach for health and life sciences for Sun Microsystems and Telecom New Zealand, Candace is regarded as an evangelist for enabling innovative collaboration pan sectors.  Candace is extremely capable in creating and managing diverse teams across countries, cultures and companies and is a committed innovator of new approaches to growing businesses in the ICT and health science industries.

Candace graduated with Honors degrees in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Hawaii and has post-graduate and Master’s degrees in International Business and Management from Massey University in New Zealand.  With a wealth of business, management and market development experience, Candace is a high-level ‘doer' with networks world-wide in health, science and technology.