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Matt Pettit

Matt Pettit is the General Manager for IMT International Ltd, responsible for developing and implementing Matcher, an electronic witnessing and quality management system for IVF clinics, and providing Cryopreservation systems to animal breeding programmes.

About Matt

Matt is the General Manager for IMT International Ltd, responsible for the development and implementation of Matcher, an electronic witnessing and quality management system for IVF clinics and for the provision of Cryopreservation systems to animal breeding programmes.

After gaining a degree in Biology at the University of Wales in 1990, Matt worked in Research and Development at the cattle breeding company, ‘Genus Plc. ’, specialising in Bovine and Equine sperm processing and semen evaluation techniques.  After establishing a stallion semen freezing unit at Australasia’s largest standard-bred ranch, ‘Alabar Bloodstock’, Matt took up the post of Manager of Research and Development at the Duke of Westminster’s bovine sperm sexing facility, ‘Cogent’.  Cogent were the first company in the world to be issued a licence to sex sperm by flow cytometry and achieved the world’s first commercially sexed offspring in 2001, using techniques now widely adopted by the global dairy and beef industries.

Matt joined IMT International in 2005 as General Manager and is responsible for managing the IMT International development team, overseeing the sales and marketing of products, and manages quality management, training and customer service.

Matt’s professional qualifications include: BSc Biology; Quality Manager for ISO9001; Manager for Development of technology for ART (Cryopreservation and Quality Management); Speaker on error prevention, quality and risk management in IVF laboratories from theory to practice; GaMP (Good automated manufacturing practice) framework for system validation.

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Sloth bear

Total Population: Less than 20,000 in the wild

Little egret

Total Population: 660,000 to 3,150,000 in the wild

Red-footed tortoise

Total Population: Unknown

Caribbean flamingo

Total Population: 150,000 to 205,000 in the wild

Babirusa

Total Population: Less than 10,000 in the wild

Patagonian Sea Lion

Total Population: 222,500 to 265,000 in the wild

Bush dog

Total Population: Unknown

African Lion

Total Population: 20,000 - 25,000 in the wild

Bar-headed goose

Total Population: 97,000 - 118,000 in the wild

Macaroni Penguin

Total Population: Around 12 million

Sumatran laughing thrush

Total Population: 2,500 - 10,000 in the wild

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Black tree monitor

Total Population: Unknown

Scimitar-horned oryx

Total Population: Around 400 in the wild

Arctic wolf

Total Population: Around 200,000 in the wild

Lesser Madagascan tenrec

Total Population: Unknown

South American fur seal

Total Population: Around 200,000 in the wild

Collared peccary

Total Population: More than 2,000,000 in the wild

Inca Tern

Total Population: Around 150,000 in the wild