Dr Hartley Atkinson founded AFT Pharmaceuticals in 1997. Prior to that, he had worked at Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company Roche for eight years where he was sales & marketing director, medical director, product manager and medical manager. He was also a drug information pharmacist and researcher at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology in Christchurch Hospital.
Dr Atkinson is the author of scientific publications and his work has been published in the The New England Journal of Medicine.
He holds a Doctorate in Pharmacology, a Masters in Pharmaceutical Chemistry with distinction, and a degree in Pharmacy - all from the University of Otago.