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Meet the Aqualife Management Team

Our Team

Even with a 25-year reputation as a world leading team of fish care professionals, fish vaccinators and aquaculture consultants, Aqualife remains a close-knit family-owned firm that holds true to its founding values.

Get to know the Aqualife management team below, who support our fish vaccinators and aquaculture consultants in the field to deliver the best possible service for our clients and their fish.

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Gordon Jeffrey

Chief Executive Officer and Owner

Gordon was one of the founding partners of Aqualife Services and has been leading the company since 1996. He spent the first four years as a full-time vaccinator and Team Leader and was an occasional vaccinator until 2008 after which time his role as Managing Director, and then Chief Executive, became full time. Gordon is very ambitious for the company and is very proud of all that has been achieved since humble beginnings in 1996. Aquaculture is a great, growing industry and he is focused on Aqualife prospering with it.

Philip Brown

Head of innovation

Phil has been passionate about fish since his early childhood days which he spent fishing in Glen Urquhart near Inverness. This passion took him to Stirling University where he studied for his degree in Biology specialising in Aquaculture. His first appointment in Aquaculture was in 1991 with Strathaird Farms Ltd where he quickly became a Marine Site Manager and vaccinated his first fish in 1993. Phil started working for Aqualife in 1998 as a vaccinator and Team Leader and has worked for the company ever since.

Aqualife team member, Philip Brown, working on some fish farm samples

Our history

Learn about our journey from 1996 through to our current international success and innovation today.

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