Who We Are

Marama Labs is a life-sciences instrumentation company founded in 2019 by Professor Eric Le Ru, Dr Brendan Darby and Dr Matthias Meyer. Marama was spun-out from research at the world-renowned Raman Laboratory of Professor Le Ru at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 

Marama's founding team are experts in optical spectroscopy, nanoparticle characterisation and light scattering, having published many seminal papers and books in the field of plasmonics, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and single-molecule detection.

Marama Labs has offices in Dublin, Ireland and Wellington, New Zealand.

Hear from our CEO, Dr. Brendan Darby, as he shares Marama Labs’ vision, the cutting-edge technology driving our innovations, and our commitment to advancing optical spectroscopy. Learn more about our journey and the impact we are making.

Management Team

Dr. Brendan Darby
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder

Capital Raising. Team Growth. Partnerships. Business Development.

Dr. Darren Andrews
Chief Commercial Officer

Sales, Marketing, Business Development.

Prof Eric Le Ru
Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder

Scientific Guidance, Spectroscopy Fundamentals. 

Board of directors

Mark Bregman

General Partner at Quidnet Ventures

Expertise

Venture Capital. Team scaling. Deep-tech. Global market access.

Prof Eric Le Ru

Professor of Physics, University of Wellington

Expertise

Optical spectroscopy. Academic applications. Data analytics.

David Bowles

Managing Partner at The Yield Lab Europe

Expertise

Venture Capital. AgTech. Innovation. Commercialisation.

Brendan Darby

CEO of Marama Labs

Expertise

Capital Raising. Team Growth. Partnerships. Business Development.

Founders

Brendan Darby

Capital Raising. Team Growth. Partnerships. Business Development.

Dr. Matthias Meyer

Engineering, Product Development, Research, Data Analytics.

Prof Eric Le Ru

Optical spectroscopy. Academic applications. Data analytics.

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