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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 London based Advisor operating in the Health Care space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Zack Feather
Non Executive Advisor of RwHealth
Zack has worked in the healthcare sector for over 15 years. He was the founder of Asclepius Global.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Lopo Champalimaud
Advisor of Treatwell
Lopo is currently the CEO of Wahanda (http://www.wahanda.com), a London based health, beauty and wellness community & marketplace that connects consumers, wellness businesses and professionals through content, ratings & reviews and commerce. Lopo co-founded Wahanda with Salim Mitha in February 2008. Prior to Wahanda, Lopo was the Managing Director of European Lifestyle for lastminute.com. In this role he was responsible for developing all aspects of the non-travel business across Europe at lastminute.com which included Theatre ticketing, concert ticketing, restaurant bookings, days out, experiences and spas. Lopo joined lastminute.com in January 2004 and when he left to found Wahanda, lifestyle respresented more than 40% of all the sales by volume at the company. From 1994 to 2004, Lopo was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fulcrum Analytics (http://www.fulcrumanalytics.com). Fulcrum is today one of the leading database marketing firms in North America but was initially known as Cyber Dialogue and was the world’s first online market research firm. Cyber Dialogue is credited with having created the online survey, the online focus group while providing industry leading insight on the internet consumer.
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About Treatwell: Treatwell is Europe’s leading marketplace for booking hair and beauty appointments online.
Tim Carter
Advisor Brand and Marketing of Baby2Body
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About : Baby2Body is a fully automated health, fitness and wellbeing coaching platform for pregnant women and mothers.
Nick Tong
Technical Advisor of Unmind
Often referred to as a “geek that can speak” Nick is a technologist with engaging communications skills. He is an entrepreneur with specialist experience in management information systems and product innovation. With other 15 years of technical experience Nick has worked with brands such as the NHS, Courvoisier, RSPCA, Publicis, Vodafone, Fixnetix, HomeTrack and the BBC. Nick has gained an exceptional ability in interpreting technology enablers and formulating digital strategies to fulfil business objectives. His experience includes: CTO and Co-Founder of Compare and Share, the worlds 1st marketplace focussing on the Sharing Economy; and founder of Tizuni Digital a full service digital agency specialising in information systems and product development.
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About SkillSnap, Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Richard Girling
Advisor of Hikma Ventures
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About : Hikma Ventures operates as the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals.
Asaf Homossany
Advisor of TalkLife
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About Nasdaq: The Social Network That Saves Lives
Michael Cohrs
Advisor of Harbor Biometrics
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About : We make FirstID, the private vital health registry enabling emergency care providers to access life and cost saving info via biometric ID.
Debasish Talukdar
President, Global Head of Advisory 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.
Jake Arnold-Forster
Business Advisor of MIRA Rehab
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About MIRA Rehab: Digital Health Company that is Gamifying Physiotherapy and Transforming Rehabilitation.
Toks Oyegunle
Advisor of OaCP
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About : OaCP reduces cancer’ genetic tests time from 3 days to 2 hours and the cost by 50% with its chemical reagents.
Eleanor Howat
Senior Policy Advisor – Health Inequalities (Learning Disabilities) and LeDeR of Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
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About Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC): Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of Majesty’s Government
Bob Clay
Senior Regulatory Advisor of Precision Medicines
Bob has over 30 years experience in drug development at AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Wellcome & Zambon. Bob served as Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs at AstraZeneca with responsibility for oncology, infection, and personalised healthcare. Bob supported the development and approval of 16 drugs including cancer medicines Lynparza, Iressa and Caprelsa. Bob received his degree in Pharmacy from the University of Bath, MSc in BioPharmacy from the University of London and an MBA from the Open University.
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About : Precision Medicines is dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients through developing novel targeted medicines.
Nada Savitch
Advisor of See What I Mean
Nada has a background in information work and worked as website manager for the Alzheimer’s Society for almost six years. During this time she provided support and training to groups of people with dementia who were interested in using computers. She also worked on a consultation basis with people with dementia to design websites and to develop new and accessible computer software.
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About : See What I Mean is a speech to image communication tool that translates words into pictures.
Saif Abed
Founding Partner and Director of Cybersecurity Advisory Services of AbedGraham Healthcare Strategies
Saif Abed is the CEO of Clinical Cyber Defense Systems. He is also the founding partner and director of cybersecurity advisory services at AbedGraham.
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About AbedGraham Healthcare Strategies: Exclusively clinically based, healthcare IT strategy consultancy providing clinical analysis, strategy development, and risk compliance
Nicholas Lakin
Vice President, Advisory Services of Kinapse
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About Kinapse: Kinapse provides advisory, capability building and operational services to the life sciences industries.
