Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Rakesh Kapoor
CEO of Reckitt
Rakesh Kapoor joined Reckitt & Colman in 1987, serving in various roles including Regional Sales Manager, North India, General Manager, Indian Southern Region and Regional Marketing Director, South Asia. In 1999, he was appointed Global Category Director, Pest Control. Following the merger, he assumed the role of, Senior Vice President, Home Care. He was appointed SVP, Regional Director, Northern Europe in 2001 and in July 2006, he was promoted to EVP, Category Development. Rakesh became CEO in September 2011
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About Reckitt: Reckitt Benckiser Group is a consumer goods company makes health, hygiene and home products.
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Yusuf Sherwani
Co-Founder & CEO of Quit Genius
Yusuf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius. He is a Y Combinator alumni and was featured by Fast Company’s as one of their Most Creative People of 2019 as well as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List of 2018.
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About Quit Genius: Quit Genius is pioneering digital therapeutics for multiple addictions.
Andre Chow
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Digital Surgery
Andre is a General Surgeon, Web coder, UX designer and all-round hacker. He has a BSc in Surgical Technology, a PhD in Tissue Engineering and leads Operations & Product. When not in the lab, Andre spends his spare time playing a variety of sports, and trying to push his french bulldog off the sofa.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Digital Surgery, Medtronic, Touch Surgery: Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training
Valentina Milanova
Founder and CEO of Daye
Valentina previously worked with Techstars as a Business Development Associate. She is currently looking after the AI portfolio at Founders Factory – launching 200 businesses in the next five years! Before entering the startup and VC worlds, Valentina studied law and worked as a technology correspondent for large international publications.
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About Daye: Daye creates category-defining products and services that set a new standard for medical research and scientific innovation.
Humphrey Cobbold
Chief Executive Officer of Pure Gym
Humphrey Cobbold is the chief executive officer at Pure Gym. He is a former chief executive officer at Wiggle. Humphrey holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Pure Gym: PureGym is a gym operator that provides affordable and convenient access to fitness facilities in the U.K.
Rudy Benfredj
Co-Founder & CEO of Mendelian
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About Mendelian: Mendelian is helping doctors diagnose rare genetic diseases faster.
Furquan Kidwai
Founder & CEO of Dawaai
Furquan Kidwai is an entrepreneur building a pharmacy for emerging Asia. Prior to this journey, Kidwai was an investment banker for over eight years in London where, in his last role, he was the Head of CEEMEA Financing as well as a Senior Vice President in the Fixed Income business at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Before joining RBS, Mr. Kidwai worked at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers in their London and New York offices. Mr. Kidwai has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge University. He also holds an MSc in Financial Engineering & Risk Management from Imperial College London and BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Bristol.
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About Dawaai: Dawaai operates as a digital health platform with an online network of pharmacies and generic medicine.
Jean-luc Bressard
CEO of Hextransforma Healthcare
Social equality campaigner and entrepreneur
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About Dolerite Ltd, Hextransforma Healthcare, Time to Shine Kids: Telemedicine and digital healthcare solution provider. Owner of the Brit-Med.com medical tourism platform
Riya Grover
Co-Founder and CEO of Feedr
Riya Grover is the founder and CEO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Alon Laniado
Founder & CEO of FITMATE Coach
Alon Laniado is a Founder and CEO at Fitmate and the Founder and Chairman of Eternity Capital & Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of PathMotion (sold to PageUp).
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About FITMATE Coach: Online personal 1:1 health coaching
Peter Hames
Co-Founder & CEO of Big Health
Peter Hames is CEO of Big Health, a digital medicine company he co-founded with clinical psychologist Prof Colin Espie (University of Oxford). Big Health creates automated behavioral medicine programs fuelled by tracked data, and was inspired by Peter’s difficulty in getting access to evidence-based non-drug solutions to his own insomnia. Big Health’s first product, Sleepio, is a digital sleep improvement program featuring personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques, delivered by virtual animated sleep expert The Prof and his narcoleptic dog Pavlov. In the world’s first placebo-controlled randomised trial for an intervention of its kind, Sleepio was shown to be comparable in effectiveness to face-to-face therapy.
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About Big Health, Lucky Voice, NHS England, Sleepio: Big Health is a digital therapeutics company operating a healthcare portal to offer behavioral programs for mental health issues.
Steve Cahillane
President & Chief Executive Officer of NBTY
Steve Cahillane joined NBTY in September 2014 as President & CEO. Since that time, he has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of NBTY. Prior to joining NBTY, Steve served as President of Coca-Cola Americas, which consists of both the North American and Latin American operations. Before assuming that role, he held positions as President and CEO of Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR), an operating unit of the North American business of The Coca Cola Company, and President of Coca-Cola Enterprise’s (CCE) North American business. Mr. Steven A. Cahillane, also known as Steve, has been the Chief Executive Officer and President at Kellogg Company since October 2, 2017 and has been its Chairman since March 16, 2018. Mr. Cahillane possesses particular knowledge and experience in a variety of areas, including accounting and financial acumen, risk management, innovation and research and development, branded consumer products and consumer dynamics, regulatory and government that strengthens the Board’s
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About Kellogg’s, NBTY: NBTY is a leading global vertically integrated manufacturer, marketer and distributor.
George Goldsmith
Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of COMPASS Pathways
George is a serial entrepreneur with significant experience in pharmaceutical regulation. George’s early training and experience was a multi-disciplinary blending of cognitive psychology, clinical psychology and computer science.His first company, The Human Interface Group, was a pioneer in collaborative software and acquired by Lotus Development. George led the Lotus Institute and developed software and services to support high-performance, distributed teamwork. George then created TomorrowLab, which provided strategic guidance to internet businesses in the late 1990s. At the same time, he became a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company’s leadership, and eventually joined McKinsey as CEO of TomorrowLab@McKinsey. Subsequently, as a member of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) and its International Board of Directors, George founded YPO Networks. In 2002, George founded Tapestry Networks, an organisation committed to improving leadership performance and governance effectiveness in regulated sectors. He still serves as Tapestry Networks’ Non-Executive Chairman. George also serves on the board of directors for AnaBios, a company redefining drug discovery. He and his wife, Ekaterina Malievskaia MD, live in London.
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About COMPASS Pathways: Compass Pathways is a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health.
Avi Lasarow
CEO Europe, Middle East & Africa of Prenetics
Avi Lasarow is a multiple award-winning South African entrepreneur referred to by the media as ‘a lifestyle genetics pioneer’ known for his work associated with DNA testing. Avi is currently founder and CEO of genetic testing company DNAFit Life Sciences, which conducted the worlds 1st peer-reviewed and published clinical trial using both genetics and exercise interventions. In 2011 he became the youngest person to be appointed Honorary Consul for South Africa to the United Kingdom by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma. Avi was recently named African Businessman of the year in London at the African Enterprise Awards, his company DNAFit has won numerous awards, including the Lloyd’s Bank National Business Award for Innovation of the Year in 2015, winner at the UKActive Flame Awards and an award for Innovation at the South African Chamber Awards. Most recently, DNAFit was named as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative in the field of Data Science.
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About DNAFit, Prenetics: Prenetics is a genetic and diagnostic health testing company that helps identify health risks with the use of a DNA sequencing technology.
Pal Erik Sjatil
Global Managing Partner and CEO of Lightrock
Pal Erik Sjatil is the Global Managing Partner and CEO at Lightrock, a global private equity partnership that seeks to achieve financial as well as societal and environmental returns. Lightrock invests in sustainable businesses built by purpose-driven entrepreneurs committed to innovation for systemic change at scale. The company has one of the largest impact-focused growth portfolios in Europe, Latin America and India. More recently, Lightrock has also started building out a portfolio of investments across Sub-Saharan Africa. It invests in companies that pursue scalable and technology-driven business models around the themes people, planet and productivity/tech for good. Specific investment sectors within these themes include education, healthcare, access to finance, mobility, transportation, renewables and circular-economy transition. Lightrock investments demonstrably contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Lightrock’s portfolio currently encompasses more than 70 high-growth companies, including Infarm, one of the world’s fastest growing urban farming networks with more than 1200 farms installed; PharmEasy, one of the largest omni-channel healthcare platforms in India; DrConsulta, one of the largest healthcare chains in Latin America; and M-Kopa, a global pioneer for pay-as-you-go solar energy services for off-grid customers in rural East Africa. In 2019, CMR Surgical, a developer of surgical robots that will broaden access to keyhole surgery, was the first of Lightrock’s portfolio companies to become a unicorn – followed by several others, such as Lilium, the sustainable aviation company. As an active owner, Lightrock supports its portfolio companies from a board position in their dynamic growth and expansion phase. Prior to joining Lightrock, Pal Erik Sjatil was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, a member of the firm’s Shareholders Council, and the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in Europe. Before assuming that role, he led McKinsey’s office in Norway, was part of the leadership of the Scandinavian offices, led the office complex in Eastern Europe, and was the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s offices in EEMA (Eastern Europe, Russia/CIS, Turkey, the Middle East, and Africa). Pal Erik also held leadership roles in the firm’s Telecommunications, High Tech, and Strategy & Corporate Finance practices. At McKinsey, he served clients in the telecom, high tech, financial services, and oil and gas industries and focused on corporate strategy, operations, and organizational transformations.
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About Lightrock: Lightrock is a global private equity platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges.
George Pallis
Co-Founder & CEO of Manual
George Pallis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Manual.
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About Manual: Manual provides diagnostic tools and testing to help patients make health-related decisions.
Peter Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of Humanity
Peter Ward is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Humanity.
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About Humanity: Humanity is a healthcare company that aims to extend the healthspan of humanity.
Adnan Ebrahim
Co-founder & CEO of MindLabs
Co-founder & CEO of MindLabs. Previously Founder & CEO of Car Throttle (acquired by Dennis Publishing in 2019). Forbes 30 Under 30 2020.
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About MindLabs: MindLabs is the world’s first live mental health platform.
Max Parmentier
Co-Founder & CEO of Birdie
Max Parmentier is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Birdie.
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About Birdie: Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home.
Martin Blinder
Founder and CEO of Tictrac
Martin is an Internet and Digital Health entrepreneur with a focus on consumer web. He is co-founder and CEO of Tictrac, a leading Connected Health platform that engages people in their health, through their data. Tictrac is at the forefront of the consumerization of healthcare, centralizing an otherwise fragmented sector around the consumer, under the credo: consumer engagement is the key to better health outcomes. Tictrac won Best New Company at Health 2.0 in 2012. Martin was named among the 15 most influential in Digital Health, and has been featured in Wired, NYT, BBC, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, among others. He is also an active member of YPO, London chapter. Prior to Tictrac, Martin cofounded one of the first online financial services sites in Europe and has advised Prime Ministers and other state officials on innovation, foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship.
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About Tictrac: Tictrac is a connected health platform that engages people in their health through their data.
Stephan Tual
Founder, CEO of 3 Billion Pairs Genetic
Stephan Tual is the Founder & CEO at 3 Billion Pairs Genetics Ltd. & he attended Institut Franco-Américain de Management in 1995.
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About 3 Billion Pairs Genetic: 3 Billion Pairs Genetic is a biotechnology based company.
Gregg Sando
Founder & former Chief Executive Officer of Kuur Therapeutics
Gregg Sando is the founder and CEO of Cell Medica. After a career in investment banking based both in London and New York, he completed his Immunology MSc degree at the medical school of Imperial College. Recognizing the significant progress taking place in the field of cellular immunotherapy, Gregg formed Cell Medica in cooperation with a small group of the leading clinicians and immunologists who were pioneering this new mode of medical treatment. (B.A. Biochemistry, Harvard University; M.B.A. University of Chicago; MSc Immunology, Imperial College London).
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About Kuur Therapeutics: Kuur Therapeutics is committed to transforming the lives of patients with cancer & is leading the development cell therapies.
Sunny Ahonsi
CEO of MediLiVes
Experienced algorithmic crypto trader and a healthcare evangelist. Mr. Sunny Ahonsi (MBA, BA, FCCA, FOTHM, ACILT, ACIS, ACEA, MCIM, MIVA, DIPM) a professional-trained accountant and a member of The British Blockchain Association, has led highly regarded organizations across the globe for years by providing innovative and development solutions to corporate and governmental organizations. He has managed several startups and helped SMEs in securing and raising finance to accelerate the growth of their business.
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About MediLiVes: Uberization of Healthcare & Telemedicine. Join the innovative AI based telemedicine system.
Matteo Berlucchi
CEO & Co-Founder of Healthily by Your.MD
Matteo’s digital career spans 20 years, during which he has conceived, built and launched several successful companies and services both online and on mobile. Most recently, Matteo was Chief Digital Officer at Northern & Shell, the largest independent media company in the UK,where he grew traffic and revenues 4-fold in just 12 months. Matteo was also the founder and CEO of aNobii, the ebook platform funded by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins which was acquired by Sainsbury’s in 2012. Matteo founded Livestation, the leading service for live TV news online and the first company in the world to stream live TV on iPhones. Livestation is also the winner of the Guardian Digital Innovation Award 2008. Prior to this, Matteo was CEO and co-founder of Skinkers, a software company, which defined the market for desktop widgets and the winner of several international innovation awards in the digital space. Matteo started his career by launching the first online property system in Europe in 1995.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Vini Italiani: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
David Plans
CEO and Co-Founder of BioBeats
David Plans is a member of the University of Surrey’s Center for Digital Economy and Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, and is working towards machine learning solutions to foster human wellbeing. His primary research focus is adaptive media and affective modelling. Having worked on early mHealth projects in the NHS, he is now leading smartphone and wearable research projects at BUPA, AXA/PPP, and Microsoft Health with his startup, BioBeats, where they are helping actuarial and care provision teams think differently about preventative health.
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Sandeep Bansal
Founder & CEO of Medic Creations
Dr Bansal graduated from Imperial College London with a MSc in Paediatrics and Child Health. In 2013 he started his General Practitioner training at Oxford Deanery where he was also Trainee Lead, representing Oxford Deanery for the Associates in Training (AiT) committee in their quarterly meetings at Royal College of General Practitioners. From his professional experience and feedback from his peers, DrBansal raised the concerns of poor Information Governance (IG) compliance around sharing patient dataat AiT meetings. With the AiT board’s response of their inability to offer an alternative solution, Dr Bansalcarried out a survey to understand the extent of the problem in 2014. The survey for his 180 colleagues went viral and he received 2050 responses confirming the poor IG compliance practice, predominantly around the use of WhatsApp. In 2014 he set up Medic Creations and created the innovative app MedicBleep to enable secure and reliable clinical communication for primary, secondary and community care. With enabling communication across healthcare organisations and professionals, Medic Bleep empowerstrue interoperability, the future of healthcare management and innovation. Medic Creations was selected for Web Summit Alpha 2015 and is listed in the Journal of mHealth’s top100 Global Digital Companies for 2016 and 2017.
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About Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd, Harvard Medical School, Medic Creations, shl.vc: Revolutionising Communications in Healthcare
Damian Milkins
Chief Executive Officer of Amplify Life
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About Amplify Life: Amplify Life is an app that provides coaching for fitness and wellbeing.
Chris Edson
Co-founder & CEO of Second Nature
Christopher Edson CEO & Founder of EU Top 50 Startup, Forbes 30 Under 30
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About Second Nature: Second Nature is a digital programme that helps people lead healthier lives
Dan Vahdat
Co-founder & CEO of Huma Therapeutics
Dan Vahdat is Co-founder & CEO of Medopad, a British healthcare technology company enabling connected care, headquartered in London, UK. Dan is an award winning innovator in the fields of science and technology. His professional career spans from IT to medical technology including several years at Johns Hopkins in the US. Dan studied Engineering and Mathematics, after which he pursued his PhD in at Johns Hopkins including 2 years of abroad study at Oxford University. Before finishing his degree, he left to focus on his business.
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Nader Alaghband
Co-Founder & CEO of Ampersand Health
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About Ampersand Health: Ampersand creates innovative digital medicines for complex long term conditions, using behavioural and data-science.
David MacMurchy
Chief Executive Officer of Lightship
David MacMurchy is the Chief Executive Officer at Lightship.
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About Lightship: Lightship is a provider of enterprise-level and direct-to-patient clinical research solutions for decentralized clinical trials.
Jonathan Relph
Founder & CEO of VITL
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About VITL: On a mission to make healthy living more achievable, providing beautifully designed, expertly researched nutritional products and content.
Sam Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of FitXR
Sam draws on his experience from consulting and private equity to drive FitXR forward into the uncharted lands of fit tech. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sam was always enchanted by the prospect of building a company. Meeting Sameer at business school kick-started that dream. A lover of all things fitness, Sam is excited to develop a product that will help people access professional workouts, and build healthier communities around the world.
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About FitXR: FitXR, the leading developer of VR/AR fitness apps, is passionately dedicated to making fitness more fun and accessible for everyone.
Abdullah Albeyatti
CEO & Co-Founder of Medicalchain
Dr Albeyatti graduated from Imperial College London as a doctor in 2011. He has always had a passion for innovation and problem solving and has developed solutions to inefficiencies he found whilst working in the UK National Health Service. In 2016 he co-founded Medicalchain, initially as Discharge Summary – an application used in hospitals to generate accurate medical reports on patients, before they are discharged. Dr Albeyatti’s career in medicine started with surgical training in London and has moved on to general practice with a view to continuing his ENT passion and furthering his management aspirations. He continues to work in Accident and Emergency to sharpen his clinical skill set.
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About dischargesummary.co.uk, Medicalchain, MyClinic, NHS, NHS England: Medicalchain is a decentralized platform that enables secure, fast and transparent exchange and usage of medical data.
Aron Rachamim
Founder & CEO of Senzo
Aron Rachamim is committed to changing the world by putting healthcare information into everyone’s hands. A serial entrepreneur, scientist, and experienced leader, Aron aims to apply pioneering technologies to improve people’s quality of life. His expertise and passion for the science of microfluidics builds on his background in life sciences, physics, and engineering. His company Orphidia intends to transform the world of medical diagnostics. Aron launched Orphidia in 2013 to provide affordable, point-of-care diagnostics that allow everyone to know their health. Orphidia has advanced the state-of-the-art with microfluidic-based medical diagnostics that are minimally invasive, replacing venous blood draws from a phlebotomist with a simple fingerstick that anyone can perform. Aron is a serial entrepreneur, whose background combines a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a focus on microfluidics and biotechnology with strong experience in professional management. At Protein Logic, a spin-out from Cambridge University that raised more than £3 million in initial funding to develop proprietary biomarker technology for the diagnosis and prediction of diseases, he served as COO. At WiseMed, where he was Co-founder, his team developed crowdsourced medical diagnostic technology as an affordable solution for improving healthcare in the developing world. Now, at Orphidia, Aron is providing the vision and leadership that will usher in the next generation of medical diagnostics, empowering everyone to know their health.
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About Senzo: Senzo is a deep-tech bio-med company developing testing products and IP.
Melinda Nicci
Founder and CEO of Baby2Body
Melinda is founder and CEO of Body Collective (Baby2body) the award- winning, wellness company for women.
She is a Sports and Exercise Psychologist, author of two bestselling books, is a regular contributor on the BBC, and sits on numerous boards as a NED, including The ICE List and Team GB (Olympic and Para-olympics snow-sport teams).
Melinda was named the UKBAA High Growth Founder of the year 2019/20, and has won numerous accolades and awards for entrepreneurship, including being named in the UK list of the Most Influential Women in Tech for 4 years running.
A serial entrepreneur, she founded and sold her first business at the age of 25 in South Africa, and held the position of Senior Director for Consumer health Innovation at Philips in Amsterdam. Melinda brings her passion for sport, performance and wellness to the numerous companies she advises and has created a global business with Body Collective, helping millions of women all over the world to live healthier and happier lives.
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About Baby2Body, GB Snowsport, ICE List: Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Sokratis Papafloratos
CEO of Numan
Sokratis Papafloratos works as a Founder and CEO at Togethera. Previously CEO & co-founder of TrustedPlaces, acquired by Yell Group in 2010. Engineering degree from York University.
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About Numan, TrustedPlaces: Numan: Helping Your Health Wherever We Can
Guy Blomfield
Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Medical
Guy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Medical Group in June 2012 having joined Alliance Medical as Group Chief Operating Officer in 2011. Prior to Alliance Medical, Guy spent four years on the board of General Healthcare Group as Commercial and Strategy Director. Previous to GHG, Guy was on the board of Oasis Healthcare which was successfully sold to Duke Street Capital in 2007. Guy has also held a number of management consultancy roles, including as owner and Managing Director of Imcis Ltd, a specialist strategy consultancy with expertise in pubs, franchise operations, apparel and food retailing. Guy holds a degree in Accounting and Finance and he has an MSc in Corporate Finance.
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About Alliance Medical: Alliance Medical is independent provider of imaging services.
Rayna Patel
Co-Founder and CEO of Vinehealth
Rayna is a medical doctor and neuroscientist with over a decade of experience in healthcare, working in frontline hospitals, national government policy and clinical research (Cambridge, UCL, Harvard, MIT and Columbia). She held strategic and commercial roles in tech startups, government policy and the Cabinet Office’s Nudge Unit, where she used behavioural neuropsychology to change patient behaviours through commercial products.
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About Vinehealth: Vinehealth is a AI-driven platform providing support to improve the quality of life and survival of cancer patients.
John E. Milad
CEO & Founder of Quanta
John E. Milad is a global healthcare executive, board member, investor, speaker and author. He has a career spanning over 25 years, with experience working in various senior positions in the healthcare sector, including NBGI Ventures, Atlas Venture, Nitec Pharma and Nomura. Currently, John is Chief Executive Officer and founding board member at Quanta Dialysis Technologies, where he recently raised $245m in Series D funding. An executive with international experience in building and growing successful healthcare companies, John had the vision and belief that core technology of managing fluidics on a disposable cartridge could be developed into a portable hemodialysis device with the potential to address multiple unmet needs in the $93 billion global dialysis market. John is a regular speaker and panelist at global medtech and investment conferences and has co-authored 4 peer-reviewed papers.
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About NBGI Ventures, Quanta: Quanta develops an advanced haemodialysis systems for use in the home and clinic.
Abdullah Sabyah
Founder and CEO of Rightangled
A scientist-entrepreneur and a healthcare professional, also a member of the British Heart Foundation Alliance, a member of the Clinical Pharmacogenomics Implementation Consortium in the US, and the inventor of a patent pending-technology for nucleic acid testing on a lateral flow assay (the patent is for a technology to detect DNA sequences in real-time).
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About Rightangled: Medtech specialised in Genetics, Blood and infection testing. Service is delivers through a platform that connects users with specialists.
Ali Rezaei Haddad
CEO and Founder of NeuroNav
Ali is a neurosurgical resident in London and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. Prior to this, he completed his Academic Foundation Training in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford undertaking research in the field of neuroimaging. He graduated with first class honours in Neurosciences BSc at Imperial College London, and he holds honorary research positions at the University of Oxford and St George’s Medical School. Ali co-founded the internationally acclaimed GoodSAM app used by the NHS, in which clinically trained individuals sign up as volunteers to respond to life-threatening emergency calls. He also directed and curated the Imagining the Future of Medicine at the Royal Albert Hall in partnership with TEDMED, attended by a live audience of 5,000 people. Inspired by the lack of user friendly and affordable neuronavigation solutions worldwide, he founded NeuroNav to democratise access to neurosurgery navigation solutions.
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About Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, NeuroNav: An augmented reality neuronavigation platform powered by computer vision and machine learning.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick von Christierson
CEO & Co-Founder of Woven Science
Nick von Christierson is the CEO and Co-Founder at Woven Science.
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About Baby Bundle, Woven Science: Woven Science backs and builds best-in-class companies in the mental wellness space with a focus on psychedelic therapeutics.
Melissa Morris
CEO of Lantum
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About Lantum: Lantum is the online platform that enables healthcare providers to manage their clinical workforce.
Sina Habibi
CEO of Cognetivity Neurosciences
Sina Habibi is the CEO at Cognetivity Neurosciences.
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About Cognetivity Neurosciences: Cognetivity Neurosciences is a Platform technology for early, rapid and easy detection of dementia.
Mario Alberto Accardi
CEO and Co-Founder of Orexia
Life sciences executive and investor focused on starting, funding and running companies in the life sciences. Over a decade experience in the industry spanning fundamental research, venture capital and operational roles. I am now CEO and Co-Founder of Orexia and Inexia, two biotech companies founded with VC investor Medicxi and Sosei Heptares. I am also CEO and Co-Founder and inventor behind Orthonika, a medtech spin-out from Imperial College London.
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About Orexia, Orthonika: Orexia aims to develop orally administered orexin positive modulators for the treatment of neurological diseases.
Carina Cunha
Co-Founder & CEO of Be Nosy
Carina is a business strategist and inventor of Nosy with passion for science, sales and marketing. In her former role as MD and Launcher of Crimson Education Europe, she created sales, marketing and service delivery teams from scratch, achieving millions in ARR and 150%+ YoY growth. Prior to working with startups Carina was corporate strategist at JPMorgan, Strategy Consultant at Accenture, Investment Banker at Credit Suisse, and a fashion model with Elite. Carina is also an innovation and commercial consultant through Meta Strategy and Founders Intelligence where she helps startups and scale-ups find product-market fit and corporates build new revenue lines. She has a B.A. from Columbia University and PgD. from the University of Edinburgh.
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About Be Nosy: Nosy is a MedTech startup developing wearable air filter and air pollution tracking network.
Charles Wells
Founder & CEO of HelloSelf
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About Braintech, HelloSelf: HelloSelf is a health and wellness platform that provides its users with digital access to therapists.
Bobby Gaspar
Chief Executive Officer of Orchard Therapeutics
Bobby is Professor of paediatrics and immunology at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Honorary Consultant in paediatric immunology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He has a special interest in the treatment of severe primary immune deficiencies, including bone marrow transplantation, gene and cell therapy. He has led multiple clinical trials that have shown that gene therapy can successfully correct the genetic defect in immune deficiencies. Bobby is currently leading UK and European-wide initiatives for newborn screening in severe combined immune deficiency. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Rare Diseases in Children (CRRDC), a new academic and clinical facility that will open at Great Ormond Street in 2018.
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About Orchard Therapeutics: Orchard Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients through innovative gene therapies.
Ali Parsa
Founder and CEO of Babylon
Ali is an entrepreneur and engineer. He built Circle to become Europe’s largest partnership of clinicians, achieving around £200M in annual revenue, 3000 employees and a successful IPO, all during an economic recession. He was named by The Times as among the 100 global people to watch, and was the recipient of the Royal Award for young entrepreneurs for founding V&G earlier in his career. Ali is a UK Cabinet Office Ambassador and has a PhD in engineering Physics.
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About Babylon: Babylon is a world leading, digital-first, value-based care company.
Zhangming Niu
Founder & CEO of MindRank AI
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About MindRank AI: MindRank is a developer of an AI-enabled drug-discovery platform intended to discover and develop next generation precision medicines.
Dennis O’Brien
CEO of Lucid Group Communications
Role To lead our team to be the best we can be and to make a difference to patients through healthcare. Pharmacology graduate. 13 years in pharma in a variety of roles. Co- founded Lucid in 2007 based on a passion to help pharma improve education to healthcare professionals. Background Favourite part of the job Helping to shape our future. Seeing and rewarding progress in line with our vision.
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About Lucid Group Communications: Lucid offer talented writers an exclusive, tailor-made package to suit their individual needs and desires.
Soumyadip Rakshit
Co-Founder & CEO of MysteryVibe
Soumyadip is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of sex-tech company MysteryVibe . His mission is to apply Intelligence of Things to the world of Pleasure and create and immersive experience to transform bedrooms into sensual sanctuaries. The mission is gaining pace. MysteryVibe won the consumer product design category at the Design Week awards, beating the Apple Watch. Last year, it closed a funding round worth $1.5 million (£1.1 million) bringing the total raised by the company to over $4 million in three years and valuing it at $13 million. The sex-tech market, which is estimated to be worth $15 billion, has so far had very little outside investment. Rakshit says: “There’s huge potential, and that’s helped investors get over their initial reservations about the sector.” He still loves the moment at tech conferences when he starts talking about sex and pleasure and people’s expressions turn from smiles and giggles to curiosity and seriousness.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
Hamish Grierson
CEO & Co-Founder of Thriva
Hamish Grierson is the CEO and co-founder of Thriva.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Tamara Rajah
Founder & CEO of Live Better With
A couple of years ago, Tamara got really frustrated from her professional and personal experiences. She found that there are so many things that could help people living with cancer live better day-to-day, but they don’t know about them or don’t know where to buy them. She left her job in healthcare and set up Live Better With to change that.
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About Live Better With: Make life a little bit better with 100s of recommended products for people living with cancer.
Zubair Ahmed
CEO & Founder of MedicSpot
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About MedicSpot: MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Barney Gilbert
Founder, Co-CEO of Pando
Barney Gilbert worked in the NHS as a doctor before founding Pando, a healthtech company working to connect everyone working in healthcare. Listed in the UK’s Disruption50 Index for 2019. Forbes 30 Under 30 alum.
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About NHS England, Pando: Forward is now Pando! Pando is an essential tool for teamwork and secure collaboration in health and social care.
David Meinertz
CEO of Zava
David Meinertz (born 1974) is CEO of Europe’s largest online doctor Zava (previously DrEd). He founded Zava with Amit Khutti in 2010. Since the start of service in 2011 Zava has treated over three million patients across six European countries. Before Zava, the entrepreneur was responsible for the international expansion of a leading telemedicine company in the UK, and held a senior position in a European investor focused on small to mid-sized companies in the field of healthcare, technology and distribution. Meinertz is a lawyer and graduated with an MBA from HEC Paris. Together with his wife and three sons he lives in London.
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About Zava: Zava is an online medical service provider and offers consultations, diagnostics and medication without the need for a face-to-face visit.
Thom Jenkins
Founder & CEO of PetsApp
I am the Co-founder and CEO of PetsApp, a veterinary telemedicine platform enabling veterinary clinics to offer text chat, video consultations, digital payments and push notifications to pet owners. I have served as the Chief Operating Officer of multi-site private-equity backed veterinary groups in both Europe and Asia, operating clinics in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK.
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About PetsApp: PetsApp provides an app-based client engagement platform for veterinary clinics, enabling them to better engage with pet owners.
Rachael Corson
Co-Founder and CEO of Afrocenchix
Rachael Corson is a Co-Founder and CEO at Afrocenchix.
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About Afrocenchix, Afrocenchix: Afrocenchix formulates, manufactures and sells safe, effective products for Afro & curly hair.
Priti Padhy
Co-founder & CEO at Cognino AI of Cognino AI
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About Cognino AI, ExtraaEdge: Cognino empowers Contextual decisions with Explainable AI. It transforms data at a cloud-scale into intelligence with speed and accuracy
Richard Vincent
CEO & Co-Founder of FundamentalVR
Richard has 20+ years’ experience of building international businesses and has throughout his career sought opportunities for positive market disruption through technological application. It was this desire that led him to co-found FundamentalVR to help address an age-old problem for the medical market; how to create safe, realistic, measurable spaces to learn and develop skills. In his role as CEO Richard is responsible for building a world class team of medical, learning and technologist who together can realise the company’s ambition of creating the world’s first global, haptically enabled, low cost ‘flight simulator for surgeons’.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Stephanie Eltz
Co-founder, CEO of Doctify
Stephanie co-founded Doctify. She is the CEO of the company.
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About Doctify: Doctify provides a solution for the millions of patients who want to search and compare healthcare and social care providers online.
Global CEO & Co-Founder of Andiamo
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About Andiamo, UnLtd: Custom medical wearables platform
Alex Hind
CEO & Co-Founder of Heka
Alex Hind, CEO & Co-Founder of GoSweat.
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About Heka: The personalised health platform to make your employees feel valued.
Susan Greenfield
Founder & CEO of Neuro-Bio
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About Neuro-Bio: Neuro-Bio is a British pharmaceutical company
Baroness Susan Greenfield
CEO & Founder of Neuro-Bio
Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. She has been awarded 30 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities and heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford and has currently co-founded a biotech company developing a novel approach to neurodegenerative disorders (Neuro-Bio Ltd). In addition, she has published a neuroscientific theory of consciousness,’The Private Life of the Brain’ (2003) and developed a keen interest in the impact of modern technologies on how young people think and feel. This was discussed in her book, ‘ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century’ (2008). In 1998 she received the Michael Faraday Medal from the Royal Society, was awarded a CBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List and was granted a non-political Life Peerage in 2001. In 2000 she was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and in 2007 to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was appointed Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in 2005. Further recognition of her work includes L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur from the French Government, and the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, both received in 2003. Susan was also awarded the Australian Medical Research Society Medal in 2010. In 2011, Susan joined the Advisory Board of the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute for Technology, Delhi. In 2012, Susan was offered the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Risk Management and also became a Vice Patron of POWER International. Further on in 2012, Susan was selected to serve as the Parliamentary Patron of the Westminster Higher Education Forum, alongside of continuing to be a Parliamentary Patron of the Westminster Education Forum. Continuing through 2012, Susan bacame a Governor of The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health and also started to suport the IAB (the International Advisory Board). In January 2014, she was included in the Debrett’s 500, “a recognition of the most influential and inspiring 500 people in Britain.”. Most recently, in July 2014, Susan was awarded as an Honorary Doctorate at Middlesex University.
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About Neuro-Bio: Neuro-Bio is a British pharmaceutical company
Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Insilico Medicine
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine (insilico.com), a leader in next-generation artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery, and biomarker development. He is also the founder and CEO of Deep Longevity, Inc, a global company developing a broad range of artificial intelligence-based biomarkers of aging and longevity. Since 2015 he invented critical technologies in the field of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement learning (RL) for generation of the novel molecular structures with the desired properties and generation of synthetic biological and patient data. He also pioneered the applications of deep learning technologies for prediction of human biological age using multiple data types, transfer learning from aging into disease, target identification, and signaling pathway modeling. Under his leadership Insilico raised over $50 million in multiple rounds from expert investors, opened R&D centers in 6 countries and regions, and partnered with multiple pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic institutions. Prior to founding Insilico, he worked in senior roles at ATI Technologies (acquired by AMD in 2006), NeuroG Neuroinformatics, Biogerontology Research Foundation. Since 2012 he published over 130 peer-reviewed research papers, and 2 books including “The Ageless Generation: How Biomedical Advances Will Transform the Global Economy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He serves on the editorial boards of Aging Research Reviews, Aging, Trends in Molecular Medicine, Frontiers in Genetics, and co-chairs the Annual Aging Research, Drug Discovery and AI Forum (7th annual in 2020) at Basel Life, one of Europe’s largest industry events in drug discovery. He is the adjunct professor of artificial intelligence at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
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About Deep Longevity, Insilico Medicine: Insilico Medicine develops an AI platform for drug development to treat cancer and age-related diseases.
Jack Tang
Co-Founder & CEO of Urban
A startup entrepreneur and angel investor. Currently Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Urban Massage – a B2C and B2B technology marketplace connecting wellness professionals with buyers in their local neighborhood. Prior to founding Urban Massage, he founded a social network and app-based job board TheStudentJob.com
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Sergey Musienko
CEO of Atlas Biomed Group
Sergey Musienko is a technology expert with over a decade’s worth of experience, specifically in the health sector. He is the CEO of Atlas Biomed, the personalised health company. Sergey took time out to join the Silicon Valley think tank, Singularity University, in 2011. It was here that Sergey realised that the future was, in his words, “integrative personal omics profiles, which gather information about the body at a molecular level”. This insight led to him to found Atlas Biomed where he is currently the CEO. Here, he has put together a successful team that has developed two major products: the Atlas DNA Test and the Atlas Microbiome Test. These tests analyse how genes and gut bacteria influence various health traits like disease risk, nutrition, personal traits and physical activity, allowing people to take control of their health with actionable, scientifically proven lifestyle recommendations.
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About Atlas Biomed Group: The Atlas DNA and gut microbiome tests evaluate your health status and provide personalised recommendations to improve wellbeing.
Mick Crosthwaite
Chief Executive Officer of Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging
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About Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging: Hallmarq Veterinary Imaging is a global leader in innovative diagnostic imaging.
Tej Virk
Chief Executive Officer of Akanda
Tej Virk currently works as the Chief Executive Officer for Akanda.
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About Akanda: Akanda is a medical company that produces medical cannabis for patients.
Gary Cottle
CEO of Metrikus
Gary has been involved in real estate for the last 20 years both professionally and personally. Professionally, he has been responsible for originating, structuring, arranging, financing, and risk managing multi billion-pound Real Estate backed portfolios over the last decade. Gary was previously EMEA Head of Global Markets at Nomura with a $120bn investment portfolio, and more than 1,000 front office professionals across Trading, Structuring, Origination and Sales.
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About Metrikus: Metrikus is a smart building platform that integrates sensors to create more sustainable, healthy, and productive places to live and work.
Paolo Pieri
CEO of Circle Health
Paolo Pieri is the CEO of Circle. He joined as the Chief Financial Officer in November 2010 after spending five years at lastminute.com. Paolo has a bachelor of accountancy from Glasgow University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Accountants for Scotland.
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About Circle Health: Circle Health is a provider of health care service with investigation and treatment of diseases.
Elena Mustatea
CEO of Bold Health
Elena is an Associate at Atomico. As part of our London team, she focuses on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, as well as supporting Atomico and its portfolio companies on operational projects and research. Before joining Atomico, Elena worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in London, where she advised various EMEA internet, telecoms, media and technology companies in financing and M&A processes. Elena started her career as a management consultant with Oliver Wyman in Dubai covering Middle Eastern telecoms and public sector companies, with a focus on strategy, business planning and risk management projects. Elena holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth College in the US, and studied abroad in Germany, France, and Italy.
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About Bold Health: Bold Health is a specialty telemedicine company that offers best-in-class integrative care for Gastrointestinal (GI) conditions.
Murray Ellender
CEO of eConsult Health
Murray qualified from the University of London in 1999 and trained as an A&E doctor before starting his career in general practice. In 2006, he joined the Hurley Clinic and now works as a GP across all of our sites. Murray leads on both digital and urgent care for the Group. He sits on various urgent care boards, including the Clinical Leadership Group for Urgent & Emergency Care, NHSE (London). Recently he has increased his involvement in promoting and developing our online eConsult offer for both registered and urgent care patients. In October 2015 he took on the role of CEO of eConsult Health. Murray stays fit by running marathons and helping look after his four children.
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About eConsult Health, Hurley Group: eConsult Health is the leading digital triage provider to the NHS.
Ali Moiyed
CEO & Founder of Aerobit Health
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About Aerobit Health: Breathing New Life Into Asthma Care
Krishan Ramdoo
CEO and Founder of Tympa Health Technologies LTD
Krishan Ramdoo is the CEO and Founder of TympaHealth Technologies.
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About Tympa Health Technologies LTD: TympaHealth are a team of doctors and technology experts united in their vision of helping the world to hear.
Paweł Sieczkiewicz
Co Founder & CEO of Telemedi
Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, experienced project manager (web/mobile apps), php programmer. Founder of an SSF software house. 2x champion of Poland in kickboxing.
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About Telemedi: Trusted partner in digital healthcare
Ian Braithwaite
CEO & Co-Founder of Habitual
Ian Braithwaite is the CEO and Co-Founder at Habitual.
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About Habitual: Digital therapeutics & nutritional treatment for type 2 diabetes reversal.
James Balmain
Joint Chief Executive Officer of Induction Healthcare Group
James is the Co Founder & CEO for Zesty, a multi-award winning European digital health company backed by a group of international VC funds, including Mangrove Capital, LBO France and Qualcomm Ventures. James brings 18+ years of entrepreneurial leadership and eCommerce expertise to Zesty, leveraging his experience building & managing teams at category leading eCommerce and Mobile companies Shop Direct, Very, Littlewoods, Woolworths and EE. In 1997 James launched Light Image, a new Internet and eCommerce consultancy supplying a range of blue chip clients in retail, telecoms and media. In under 5 years Light Image grew to become a multi million pound agency delivering award winning projects to clients such as Tiscali, ntl, Telewest, BT, Vodafone, Carphone Warehouse, Universal Pictures, WH Smith, ITV and Channel 4. In 2007 James launched Webtogs, a new online retailer operating in the £1Bn Outdoor market selling branded clothing, footwear, equipment and accessories from a range of top international brands. Webtogs grew from an idea to a multi million pound online retailer in under 4 years winning multiple awards such as ‘Best Customer Care’ by IMRG, Best Internet Retailer by Walk Magazine and Number 1 ranked online retailer for service on Trustpilot. More recently, James was Head of eCommerce at EE, the joint venture between Orange and T-Mobile, the largest UK mobile phone network with over 25M customers. EE were the first to launch superfast 4G mobile data in early 2012. James has a degree in Computer Science from Greenwich University, London and several Securities Institute qualifications in Investment Management, Exchange traded derivatives administration, Commodities and FSA Financial regulation.
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About Induction Healthcare Group: Induction Healthcare is a healthcare technology company focused on streamlining the delivery of care by Healthcare Professionals.
Pete Dowds
CEO, Co-Founder of Elder
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About Elder: Elder is the UK’s leading care marketplace
Emilio Sanz Pereiras
CEO of Acurable
Emilio is a serial entrepreneur and leads Acurable’s strategy, operations and commercialisation activities. Emilio spent the last 15 years building 3 successful start-ups across Europe and Asia, where he learned first hand how to successfully commercialise highly innovative technologies and how to to scale start-up operations in both B2B and B2C industries. Originally from Spain, Emilio holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from Telecom ParisTech, a MSc in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and an MBA from London Business School.
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About Acurable: The first wearable medical device able to accurately diagnose and manage respiratory conditions at home
Rachel Carrell
CEO of Koru Kids
Rachel is our CEO and founder. She came up with the idea for Koru Kids after watching her friends struggle to arrange their childcare and thinking, ‘There must be a better way’. Rachel was previously Managing Director of the world’s largest online doctor service, with 1.3 million patients in 3 countries; and also a chain of IVF clinics. Prior to that she worked at McKinsey for 6 years, and in the NHS. She has a Doctorate in Development from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. In 2014 she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Rachel lives in North London with her husband and toddler, and can be found in the Highgate Wood playground almost every weekend.
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About Koru Kids, The World Economic Forum: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Jonathan Abraham
CEO and Co-Founder of Healum
Jonathan believes in the power of personalised healthcare to improve and transform the health outcomes for everyone. He combines his experience in mobile and technology startups, with 5 years at Google where he held the roles of UK Head of mobile and UK Head of Brand Solutions, to achieve this goal. He specializes in bringing digital B2B and B2C products to market and has experience in business strategy and operations, sales and marketing and proposition design and development. He holds a First Class Honours BSc in Economics from UCL.
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About Healum: Healum provides connected software and apps to improve self-management for patients with long term conditions.
Tim Antos
Founder & CEO of Kokoon Technology
A former stressed management consultant and finance professional Tim founded Kokoon in 2013 after struggling with mild insomnia. After successful treatment at a sleep clinic he founded Kokoon to make the knowledge and technology of the sleep clinic more accessible to all. Tim is an award-winning mechanical engineer who previous to working in consulting and finance had a short career developing medical products in Cambridge.
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About Kokoon Technology: Kokoon Technology is a digital health platform applying data to provide a personalized path to better sleep and mental health
Tom Evans
Founder & CEO of BleepBleeps – Smart Family
Tom Evans is the Founder of BleepBleeps.
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About BleepBleeps – Smart Family, Central Research Laboratory, D&AD, SapientNitro: Cute, connected gadgets that make parenting magic.
Cyrille Najjar
CEO of Sensio Air
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About HIAGO Inc., Sensio Air, White sur White: Sensio Air is a healthcare analytics company that helps people with asthma and allergy predict prevent and manage their symptoms.
Christopher El Badaoui
Co-Founder, CEO of LVNDR Health
Chris is responsible for driving LVNDR’s vision, brand, and business strategy as well as building and managing a phenomenal team to revolutionize LGBTQ+ healthcare. They are a 2x founder and have previously built accelerators and investment vehicles for Parsons School of Design, Techstars and the NFL. Prior to that, they led Growth and Strategy at Pillar Tech disrupting legacy industries with Fortune 500 companies.
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About LVNDR Health: LVNDR is redesigning sexual and reproductive healthcare services through a mobile-first digital clinic designed for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Martin Murphy
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Syncona Partners LLP
Martin is Chief Executive Officer of Syncona Investment Management Ltd. He co-founded Syncona in 2012 with The Wellcome Trust. Since then, Martin has been closely involved in the foundation and development of four Syncona companies: Achilles, Autolus, Blue Earth and OMass Therapeutics and continues to hold Board positions at these companies. Previously, he was a partner at MVM Life Science Partners LLP, a venture capital company focused on life science and healthcare, where he led their European operations. Martin has also held roles with 3i Group plc and McKinsey & Company. He has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge.
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About Syncona Partners LLP: Syncona Partners LLP is a healthcare company focused on investing in and building global leaders in life science.
Keith Blundy
CEO of Storm Therapeutics
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About Storm Therapeutics: Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics
Fouad Al Noor
Co-Founder & CEO of ThinkSono
Fouad has a masters in Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology from the University of Southampton. He worked as a research assistant at Imperial College London before joining Entrepreneur First. He wrote his thesis on paper-based medical diagnostics using image processing.
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About ThinkSono: Cutting edge AI ultrasound software for detection of blood clots (DVT)
Edward Ungar
Co-Founder & CEO of Pharmacierge
Edward Ungar is a Co-founder at Pharmacierge.
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About Pharmacierge: The free e-prescribing service chosen by Private GPs and Consultants to deliver medication to their patients nationwide
Philip Taylor
Founder & CEO of Carbon Theory
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About Carbon Theory: NATURAL SKINCARE MADE IN THE U.K
Timothy Mitchell
CEO of Iqarus
For almost 20 years, Tim has built and managed businesses focused on enabling clients to operate in remote and difficult environments. Tim has been CEO of two of the world’s leading security businesses and created a pioneering expeditionary medicine company before moving on to form Iqarus. With this blend of experience, Tim has an intimate understanding of the medical needs of the government and defence, NGO, oil and gas, and other expeditionary clients operating in complex and demanding environments around the world. He is passionate about the need to develop better, more focused, technology-enabled health solutions, built around clients’ real world needs and priorities. Tim has extensive experience of assisting clients to ensure safe, healthy, compliant operations in some of the most challenging operating environments in the world. Tim has overseen large scale medical and security operations in over 50 countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, The Middle East, Asia and South America, and environments as remote as the Arctic and Antarctica. Originally from Canada, Tim has run businesses in North America, Europe and the Middle East.
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About Iqarus: Iqarus have been pioneers in the field of offshore medical support and occupational health.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Grace Gimson
CEO of Holly Health
A business leader with 10+ years experience in operations, strategy and expansion. Has led teams, projects and operations in some of the highest growth companies in Europe. (Corporate: Microsoft, Facebook, Aldi. Startup: Deliveroo, Scape Technologies). **Building Holly Health to increase opportunities and quality of life for millions around the world**
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About Holly Health: Digital coach for population scale chronic disease prevention
Graeme Hossie
Founder & Co-CEO of Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co
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About Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co: Mr Lee’s Pure Foods Co is a real game changer for premium food-on-the-go.
Mark Wilson
CEO of The Cochrane Collaboration
Mark Wilson is CEO at The Cochrane Collaboration.
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About The Cochrane Collaboration: Cochrane exists so that healthcare decisions get better.
Dan Katz
CEO of Plum Dental Group
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About Plum Dental Group: Plum Dental Group affiliated clinicians provide comprehensive, compassionate general, specialty and cosmetic dental care.
