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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 United Kingdom based Board Member operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Ben Holmes
Board Member of Kry
Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm’s consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet, Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts). Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors. He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.
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About : Kry helps patients to make active choices about their health in partnership with public and private healthcare professionals.
Rona McCandlish
Board Member of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Rona McCandlish has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. Rona began her career in the NHS as an auxiliary nurse in 1974 in Scotland. She trained as a registered nurse, then a mental health nurse and has been a practicing midwife since 1985. She was Chair of the National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health from 2004-2007 and was Chair for the NICE Postnatal Care Guideline Development Group. In 2008 she was appointed a Non-executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and has recently been re-appointed as a NED for ‘new’ NICE (the National Institute for Heath and Care Excellence). Rona was appointed as Midwifery Professional Adviser for the Professional Leadership Team at the Department of Health in 2009. She took up this role on secondment from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University where she set up the ground-breaking Birthplace in England research programme. Her portfolio at DH included professional regulation and she worked closely with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on midwifery issues. She was Clinical Professional Member of the DH team for the independent review of indemnity and insurance cover for health professionals. As DH lead for the Midwifery 2020 Programme in England she worked with members of the public, women using maternity services and their families, midwives, educationalists, doctors and a wide range of other health and social care professionals to shape policy for midwifery education, practice and services. She now works as National Professional Advisor – Midwifery at the Care Quality Commission.
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About : The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Jonathan Tross
Board Member of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Jonathan Tross has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. He also chairs the NICE Audit and Risk Committee and is a Remuneration Committee and Appeal Panel member. Jonathan is a former senior civil servant with considerable experience in delivering public services and social policy, particularly in the fields of health, social security, child protection and the rights of individuals. Since leaving the civil service he has worked for the Local Government Association, was a trustee for six years at Citizens Advice, the national body for the citizens advice movement, and has been an external case reviewer for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. He is also currently a Non-executive Commissioner at the Independent Police Complaints Commission (from 2009) and a non-executive Director of UK Biobank (from 2013).
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About : The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Linda Seymour
Board Member of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Linda Seymour (BA, MA, FRSA) has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since the end of 2009. Linda brings a breadth of knowledge and expertise in health, public health and social care from a career spent in academia, the NHS and the not-for-profit sector. She was a research Fellow at Brighton University, focusing on effective approaches to community development and their impact on health and wellbeing in vulnerable groups. Linda has been a board level director on the commissioning side of the NHS, at East Sussex Health Authority; and on the provision side at South Downs Health NHS Trust and at Sussex Partnership NHS Trust. Her work in public health included roles in tobacco control at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and at the Health Education Council (HEC). Linda had a key role in evaluating the Health Education Authority’s Health at Work in the NHS programme and she is an experienced critical appraisal skills trainer, imparting the tools to assess the rigour and reliability of quantitative and qualitative research. She was Head of Policy at the former Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, specialising in promotion of mental health and wellbeing, multiple morbidities and employment and mental health. She is a trustee of MIND, the national association for mental health, where she sits on the audit and the business management committees and a member of the editorial board of the Journal for Public.
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About : The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Margaret Helliwell
Board Member of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Margaret Helliwell has been a Non-executive Director at NICE since 2007. Maggie is currently Vice Chair of NICE, a role in which she has the board responsibility for the Technology Appraisal Appeal process. A practising GP in West Yorkshire, Maggie has 40 years experience of working in the NHS. She was formerly a national GP advisor to the Department of Health, a member of the National Prescribing Centre Steering Committee, a medical director and clinical governance lead for a Primary Care Trust, and Deputy Medical Director and Caldicott Guardian of her local district general hospital.
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About : The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Ursel Barnes
Board Member of TalkLife
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About : The Social Network That Saves Lives
Victoria Muir
Chief Talent Officer; Board Member and Global Head of People, Performance & Culture of Prescient Healthcare Group
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About Prescient Healthcare Group: Prescient Healthcare Group was founded in London in 1995, originally specializing in competitive insights.
Hugh Ilyine
Founder & Board Member of ProFactor Pharma
Hugh Ilyine has had an extensive international career in company leadership, operational and marketing roles over the last twenty years. He has undertaken CEO roles in companies active in developing, registering, manufacturing, marketing and distributing IP backed products in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. His previous experience includes Director, VP and COO at Stem Cell Sciences plc including a successful IPO on AIM in July 2005; establishing the Bio-Science Division of Bonlac Ltd in Melbourne, Australia and a 17 year international career with Rhone-Poulenc’s Agrochemical division including four years as Managing Director of the company’s JV in Indonesia, with supervisory management of Malaysian operations, followed by similar responsibilities for its Australian and New Zealand operations. During his career, he has led and closed a significant number of supply and licence agreements with small and large firms in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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About DestiNA Genomics: ProFactor Pharma provides commercialise and supply recombinant blood factors for the treatment of haemophilia.
Jean Viry-Babel
CEO, Board Member of xRapid
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About xRapid: xRapid is a mobile health diagnosis through disruptive solutions leveraging the use of artificial intelligence.
Prof Andrew Zisserman FRS
Scientific Advisory Board Member of Optellum
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About : Optellum develops an imaging biomarker for smart lung cancer detection.
Ann Pleshette Murphy
Board Member of ZERO TO THREE
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About : ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit organization.
