From an early age, Richard Badham’s passion has been the design and construction of complex mechanical systems. Starting with vintage cars, he eventually graduated to airplanes, and in particular, jet engines.
These days, he heads up Invetech’s contract manufacturing team in Melbourne where he leads a group responsible for the manufacture of in vitro diagnostics (IVD) instruments, from the compact Haemonetics TEG® 6s used to measure blood coagulation during surgery, to the large Bio-Rad BioPlex 2200, a significantly complex platform for the detection of autoimmune and infectious diseases. And yet he still finds time to restore vintage cars and bikes, or build miniature electric Bugatti’s for his children.