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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 VP’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Arjun Purkayastha
Senior Vice President – eCommerce, Digital & Ventures of Reckitt
Arjun Purkayastha is a purpose driven leader with extensive global experience managing diverse businesses and multi-cultural teams at FTSE Top 10 and Fortune 100 companies – RB and P&G. He has a strong track record of building outperforming teams, iconic brands & innovative business models across 60+ countries having lived & worked in the UK, Singapore, South Korea and India. He currently leads eCommerce, CRM, digital, DNVB & start up ventures globally for RB with P&L, strategic and operational responsibility of all online channels & customers. He serves on the Board of Directors of 4 high growth, online focused companies – Pharmapacks.com (one of the largest and best 3P resellers on Amazon), Bombay Shaving Company (leading men’s wellness company in India), UpSpring (mom & baby products) and Healthily by Your.MD (AI powered self care). He is also an Investment Committee Member of Founders Factory & RB’s JV focused on Hygiene & Home start ups.
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About Reckitt: Reckitt Benckiser Group is a consumer goods company makes health, hygiene and home products.
Bruno Angelici
Executive VP of AstraZeneca
Bruno Angelici was appointed in 2007, current term until 2019. He was formerly Executive Vice President, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, and Africa of AstraZeneca Plc.
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About AstraZeneca: AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines.
Jeanne Bolger
Vice President Venture Investing of Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
Jeanne Bolger, MB BCh BAO, Vice President, Venture Investments, joined Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) in 2013. She is based in London, UK. Dr. Bolger has over 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in management roles across R&D, Commercial and Business Development (BD). She spent 11 years in Licensing and Acquisition (L&A), most recently as Global Head of Scientific Licensing for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical business, having joined Johnson & Johnson in 2005 from the Business Development group at GlaxoSmithKline. In 2009, Dr. Bolger became Vice President, Alliance Management at Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, working with Pfizer and Elan. Dr. Bolger received her medical degree from University College Dublin. She also holds diplomas in Child Health (NUI) and in Finance and Accounting (ACCA). She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland (RAMI). Dr. Bolger has served as the sole pharma industry representative on two Irish government taskforces seeking to enhance the commercialization of IP from Irish academic centres. She is a visiting lecturer on the MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine curriculum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
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About Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Pulmocide: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, a venture capital subsidiary, finances technology companies focused on patient health.
Stella Blackburn
VP, Global Head of Early Access & Risk Management & Real World Evidence Solutions of IQVIA
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About IQVIA, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine: IQVIA is a global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services to the life sciences industry.
Tom Eilon
VP Strategy of AccuRx
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About AccuRx, Founders Academy: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Phillip Duncan
SVP Global Procurement of McKesson
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About McKesson: McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services.
Ben Heubl
VP Europe of MedStartr
Ben is our EU Lead, advancing the MedStartr Model into Europe. A well-connected, avid networker with mad marketing skills AND is fluent in six languages, Ben is the “full package” and a perfect fit for the EU Lead role. Ben’s ability to forge collaborations, his experience, and knowledge in EU regulatory strategy aid his efforts. He also has been actively building out a Health Innovation Ecosystem in Europe, not only starting Health 2.0 Copenhagen, but also acting as a mentor for the Kairos Society K50, HealthXL StartupBootcamp Accelerator, and organizing TEDMED live events. Prior to MedStartr, Ben co-founded a health-tech startup while at Lund University and worked as a consultant for ICG. Ben has been innovating and creating a vibrant health innovation ecosystem in Europe and beyond and we are very pleased that he has chosen the MedStartr model for the next stage of his efforts. “My goal is to work and collaborate with partners and like-minded people to create and implement innovation, facilitate great innovation concepts and contribute value in successful and exciting companies that drive positive change for societies and create a better place for all of us.” – Ben
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About Institution of Engineering and Technology, MedStartr: MedStartr is a crowdfunding platform designed for the healthcare industry.
Disa Sanstorn
Senior Vice President Business Development Europe of YgEia3
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About YgEia3: YgEia3 works with corporations developing comprehensive wellness testing for each company.
Zeshan Ghory
VP of Operations & Analytics of Antidote.me
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About Antidote.me: Antidote is a digital health company that accelerates and improves medical research by combining technologies, data, and business models.
Andrew Lonergan
VP Sales and Marketing of Aspect Imaging
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About Aspect Imaging: World leader in the design and manufacture of compact, high-performance MRI & NMR systems offering Complete Point-of-Care MRI systems
Kristina Kaganer
Global VP, Commerce Data Products and Analytics of Coty
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About Coty: Coty Inc is a New York based beauty company with portfolios in fragrance, color cosmetics and skin care.
Ricky Patel
VP Engineering of Lumeon
Ricky Patel is VP of Engineering at Lumeon.
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About Lumeon: Lumeon is a digital health company providing management care solutions to the healthcare industry.
Rebecca Matthews
VP Marketing of Koru Kids
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About Koru Kids: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Simon Viggers
Vice President Human Resources of Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
Simon Thule Viggers is a Senior HR Leader with deep global experience. Almost 20 years of experience within Pharma, 15 years in leadership roles across three continents. Proven ability to lead through challenging change and with an ability to approach business in a holistic way. Simon takes the starting point in the business agenda and translates that into actions for the organization and the people. Simon has a strong leadership background as he has been part of executive teams for more than a decade and has been preferred coach to many executives.
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About Otsuka Pharmaceuticals: Otsuka Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that operates throughout the globe.
Joanna Holbrook
Senior Vice President of Research of Cambridge Epigenetix
Joanna started her career in GSK R&D, working for seven years in the UK bioinformatics department, processing the integrating ‘omic data for drug target identification and validation mostly focussing on neurological disease, and then for three years in GSK USA Oncology R&D working on biomarkers for targeted therapies. She then left GSK and the USA for Singapore and built an academic group in A*STAR Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences. Her group focused on epigenomic trackers of complex disease, especially the interaction of genetic, environmental and disease states in shaping the human epigenome. Her work in Singapore encompassed set-up of observational and interventional cohorts, biobanking, clinical databases, production, processing and analysis of biosample ‘omic profiles and multiple industrial collaborations. Moving back to the UK five years later, she took up a professorship at the University of Southampton, still working on epigenomics and also integration of electronic health record data to clinical cohorts. Most recently she has been VP of Translational Medicine at BenevolentAI, a fast growing British Biotech, where she initiated and led integration of ‘omic data into a large biomedical knowledge graph and machine learning approaches to analyses of patient-level data for precision medicine.
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About Cambridge Epigenetix: Cambridge Epigenetix is using epigenetics to reduce several routine & important diagnostic tests for common cancers to a simple blood draw.
Clare Cooper
Founder and Vice President of Storm3
Clare Cooper is the Founder and Vice President at Storm3.
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About Storm3: Storm3 are a global HealthTech talent marketplace, connecting organizations with the talent to drive their mission.
William Richardson
Executive Vice President of Savaria Corp
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About Savaria Corp: Savaria provides accessibility solutions for the elderly and physically challenged to increase their mobility and independence.
Richard Lagani
Executive Vice President of MMRGlobal
Richard Lagani is an Senior Management Professional
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About MMRGlobal, MMRGlobal: MMRGlobal provides secure, easy-to-use multilingual personal health records (PHRs) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions.
Bryan Olin
Senior Vice President of LivaNova
Bryan Olin, PhD is the Senior Vice President, Clinical, Quality & Regulatory Affairs at LivaNova. Dr. Olin joined Cyberonics in May 2009 as Vice President, Quality. In August 2009, he assumed additional responsibility for Clinical Affairs, and in April 2011, his responsibilities were expanded again to include Regulatory Affairs. With the 2015 merger between Cyberonics and Sorin, his responsibilities expanded to include corporate-wide responsibilities for the clinical, quality and regulatory affairs functions at LivaNova. Prior to May 2009, Dr. Olin was employed at Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc., a privately held medical technology company in the San Francisco area, where he served as Sr. Director, Quality Assurance since October 2007. Prior to Zeltiq Aesthetics, Dr. Olin was employed at the LifeScan and Cordis companies of Johnson & Johnson from 1999 to 2007, holding several positions of increasing responsibility in quality assurance, statistics and clinical data management. Dr. Olin began his career with Procter & Gamble in 1993 after obtaining his Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Medical Devices Innovation Consortium (MDIC) and as an industry representative on the Advisory Committee for The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet).
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About LivaNova: LivaNova PLC is a global medical technology company built on nearly five decades of experience and a relentless commitment.
Melany Pierson
VP Business Development of HCA International
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About HCA International: HCA is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services.
Christian Barnett
SVP Strategy of ReviveHealth
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About ReviveHealth: ReviveHealth is a full-service agency focused on the intersection of healthcare delivery, finance, and innovation.
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.
