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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 Glasgow 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.
Dr Margaret Temple
CEO of Vitrology
Margaret Temple is a science and business graduate of Edinburgh University who joined the biotechnology industry in 1995. Following several commercial roles with Q- One Biotech Limited Margaret was appointed as a Board Director in 2002. In 2007 Margaret co -founded Vitrology Limited having secured funding from Archangels, and was appointed CEO in 2009. Vitrology was acquired by the Swiss multinational SGS in 2012, and a two year period of integration was completed at the end of 2014.
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About Vitrology: Vitrology is a biopharmaceutical contract testing organization in the biosafety testing sector of the pharmaceutical industry.
Cameron Graham
Co-Founder & CEO of Storii
Cameron Graham is a Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at StoriiCare.
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About Entrepreneurial Scotland, Storii, University of Strathclyde: Software for Senior Care
David Sibbald
CEO and Co-Founder of Aridhia Informatics
David Sibbald is the co-founder and CEO of Aridhia, a health data science company which develops and runs a cloud-enabled Digital Research Environment for clinical research, precision medicine and healthcare applications. David is the Founder and Trustee of the Kate MacAskill Foundation, a charitable organisation providing education, care and micro-enterprise funding for children and young adults in the developing world and is Chairman of the Johari Foundation. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Glasgow University, Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Paisley and the University of Strathclyde for services to Scottish science and philanthropy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy of Science and Letters. In the 2010 New Year Honours List, David was awarded an OBE for charitable services in Scotland and overseas.
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About Aridhia Informatics, Kate MacAskill Foundation: Aridhia informatics provides biomedical informatics and analytics services to improve the management of chronic diseases.
Derek Gilchrist
Co Founder & CEO of Causeway Therapeutics
Derek is a principal investigator at the University of Glasgow and leads the scientific and technical development of TenoMiR™.
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About Causeway Therapeutics, University of Glasgow, University of Glasgow: A bio pharmaceutical spin out emerging.
Jo Halliday
Founder, CEO of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
George Crooks
Chief Executive Officer of Digital Health and Care Institute
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About Digital Health and Care Institute: Digital Health and Care Institute provides health care solutions.
David Heath
Founder & CEO of Cutitronics
David Heath is Founder & CEO of Cutitronics and is the very reason we are all here. He provides leadership, guidance and inspiration on a daily basis. David’s extensive academic career led him to qualify as a medical devices researcher with degrees in physics and engineering, working in a multidisciplinary clinical, commercial and engineering team. Throughout his PhD and post-doctoral research, he focussed on transdermal medical technology. But it was while presenting at a skincare conference that David had his “light bulb moment”, realising that the expertise he developed working on transdermal medical technology could be reapplied to solve some of the major challenges of the cosmetic skincare industry. And from here Cutitronics was born! David secured funding to develop technology for the cosmetic skincare industry and validate his innovation both technically and commercially. During this time, the company was spun out of the University of Strathclyde, receiving recognition from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and ERA Foundation for both his entrepreneurial approach and outstanding technology innovation. In 2015 David began to recruit the Cutitronics team, bringing together the experience and expertise essential to launching such disruptive technology into the skincare market.
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About Cutitronics: Cutitronics is skincare start-up
Iain McDougall
CEO and Co-Founder of Taragenyx
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About Taragenyx: Regenerating orthopedic and dental implant design to help patients heal faster with far less pain.
