Todd Houlahan

Director of International Mining, Evident Scientific

Todd Houlahan graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1993 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental) majoring in soils and hydrology. He then worked for 7 years as a contaminated land consultant in Australia and the UK with various companies before being introduced to handheld XRF in 2000 while remediating a Pb contaminated site in Sydney. From 2000-2004, he worked for the distributor of Niton in Australia and used handheld XRF as a consultant, a contractor and in sales capacities on large number and wide variety of Geochem projects. From 2004-2008 Todd was on the metaphorical coal face of the mass introduction of modern x-ray tube-based units to the exploration and mining sector working directly for Niton, acquired by Thermo, supporting distributors and customers in the EMEA region. For the last 15 years, Todd has been the Director of International Mining at Olympus, (now Evident Scientific) and is based in Hertfordshire in the UK. For the past 23 years, he has dedicated his career to portable XRF applications in the minerals industry. His passion is best practice application of the technology, customer training and unique applications.