• Scientist and entrepreneur with more than 10 years’ post-PhD experience designing and leading interdisciplinary commercial and academic research programmes.
• Broad technical expertise, covering synthetic & medicinal chemistry, materials science, biology and biotechnology.
• Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Rising Star in Industry’ 2020.
• Extensive business experience from C-suite management roles at the interface between academia and industry, working with large multinational corporations, small to medium biotechnology companies, and academic institutions.
• Exited an early stage biotechnology start-up to a multinational pharmaceutical company in a land mark deal and spun-out a new company from the acquisition.
• Active and extensive industrial and academic network in the UK and internationally.