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 COO’ operating in the Health Care space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Eric Collins
COO of Digital Surgery
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About Digital Surgery: Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training
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David Brindley
Chief Operating Officer of Rational Vaccines
David is an international thought-leader in healthcare risk management, with a particular interest in regenerative medicines. His multi-disciplinary research seeks to evaluate and develop systematic, rigorous and transparent risk management tools supporting the translation of life-science innovations into commercially viable products and services.
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About Rational Vaccines: Rational Vaccines is a pre-clinical stage that develops live-attenuated herpes simplex virus vaccines.
Kit Tse
COO of Lemonaid Health
Kit Tse currently works as Chief Operating Officer at Lemonaid Health UK.
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO 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
Gabor Szedlak
Co-founder and COO of MindLabs
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About Car Throttle, MindLabs: MindLabs is the world’s first live mental health platform.
Gary Dannatt
COO of Pharmacy2U
Gary Dannatt is a qualified chartered accountant with vast experience in senior financial and operational roles in a variety of sectors. He was previously Chief Operating Officer at Chemist Direct, which merged with Pharmacy2U in July 2016. Early in his career, Gary worked in ‘blue chip’ roles within the likes of Ernst & Young, Citibank and Oracle. Gary’s area of expertise is within Venture Capital backed businesses, and he has recently been a director of Simply Switch, which was sold to DMGT plc. Gary also worked alongside Mark Livingstone as COO at Scoot.
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About ChemistDirect, Pharmacy2U: Pharmacy2U are the UK’s leading NHS approved online pharmacy and also provide a confidential private online doctor service.
Constanza Di Gennaro
Chief Operating Officer of BioBeats
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Charlene Chen
COO of Lantum
Charlene Chen is a serial startup/scaleup COO, first at global fintech AZA and now healthtech Lantum. She loves solving problems, organizational design and how to grow and scale operationally optimized teams.
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About AZA Finance, Lantum: Lantum is the online platform that enables healthcare providers to manage their clinical workforce.
Eliot Brooks
Co-Founder & COO of Thriva
Eliot Brooks is Co-founder and COO at Thriva. Prior to this, he perforemed various roles at Tandem Bank and was once a manager at Travelex. He bears a degree in economics from University of Oxford.
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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.
Kate Newhouse
Chief Operating Officer of Kooth
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About Kooth: Personalised Digital Mental Healthcare Available for All
Nick Lench
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Scientific Officer of Congenica
Nick was previously Director of the NE Thames Regional Genetics Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, with responsibility for the strategic and operational management of a genetics service that provides DNA diagnostic testing to a population of approximately 4.5M people. Nick is an honorary Reader at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London and has over 25 years of research experience in human molecular genetics and was awarded a personal chair in Medical Genetics at Cardiff University in 2005. As founding CEO of London Genetics Ltd and Programme Director at Oxagen Ltd, Nick has gained significant expertise in establishing and managing academic, healthcare and commercial partnerships in biomedical discovery and diagnostics.
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About Congenica: Congenica is a biotechnology company that provides a diagnostic decision support platform.
An Nguyen
COO of Koru Kids
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About Koru Kids: Koru Kids is a building better childcare services, starting with nanny sharing in London.
Deepti Atrish
CEO & Chief Operating Officer of PCL Health
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About PCL Health: B2B SaaS Connected care platform with IoTs, mobile Apps and Online Clinician Dashboard.
Neil Jones
Chief Operating Officer of Huntsworth
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About Huntsworth, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Price Waterhouse: Huntsworth plc is an international consultancy group focused on public relations and integrated healthcare communications.
Ines Cheaib
COO of Gaia
Ines Cheaib is COO @Gaia Ex- VP Growth and Strategy @Quiqup, Ex VC investor @C4Ventures.
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About Gaia: Gaia combines reproductive health data with financial technology to make IVF treatments more accessible, affordable, and personal.
Gerald Crabtree
Chief Operating Officer of PharmaCyte Biotech
Gerald Crabtree is the Chief Operating Officer of PharmaCyte Biotech and a Board member. He has spent almost 50 years working in academic, biotech and pharmaceutical companies with the majority of that vast experience being in the development of drugs and treatments for cancer. He has held positions of ever-increasing importance over that time. Crabtree’s background in the biomedical sciences has been substantial, having been involved with various biopharmaceutical companies where he has alternatively supervised and coordinated the development of multiple drug candidates, prepared clinical protocols, investigator brochures, monographs, and research and review articles. A highlight of Dr. Crabtree’s professional career was his tenure as Director of Project Planning and Management (Oncology and Immunology) at Bristol-Myers Squibb (“BMS”) from 1990 to 1997. While at BMS, Crabtree established and directed a department that monitored and coordinated the development of all oncologic and immunologic drugs from initial discovery through regulatory approval within BMS and served as Project Manager for the development of the major anticancer agent, Taxol®, the “number one” drug under development at BMS at that time. Taxol® ultimately became a multi-billion dollar drug for BMS and is still widely used to treat a variety of cancers. From 1989 to 1990, Crabtree was Director of Pharmacology at Viratek, Inc., a subsidiary of ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Costa Mesa, California. There he worked on the development of anticancer drugs first developed at the Nucleic Acid Research Institute (NARI, a joint venture between Eastman Kodak and ICN Pharmaceuticals) and with ribavirin (Virazole®), Viratek’s landmark antiviral drug. From 1985 to 1989, Crabtree served as Head of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at NARI where his department was tasked with elucidating the mechanisms of action of anticancer and antiviral drugs developed by NARI chemists. From 1970 to 1985, Crabtree held several faculty positions at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island as well as at the Roger Williams Cancer Center (“RWCC”) at that institution. These positions culminated in his attaining the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine. During his time at Brown and the RWCC, Crabtree studied the mechanisms of action of putative anticancer and antiparasitic drugs and participated in clinical trials of anticancer agents. After leaving BMS in 1997, Crabtree consulted with several biotech companies, all of which were developing cancer drugs or treatments. Then, from 2000 to 2003, Crabtree served as Vice President of R&D at ETEX Corporation, a “device” company, where he was tasked with developing that company’s proprietary calcium phosphate formulations as depot/delivery platforms for cancer drugs. Upon leaving ETEX, he resumed his consulting business, which soon became focused on PhytoCeutica, Inc. located in the Yale Science Park in New Haven, Connecticut, where he assisted in the preparation and review of FDA documents, clinical study protocols, investment acquisitions, and contracts and business plans. PhytoCeutica was developing a traditional Chinese medicine four-herb combination as a treatment for liver and pancreatic cancer. During his time with PhytoCeutica, Crabtree assumed ever-increasing responsibilities and from 2009 to 2010, ultimately serving as its Interim CEO. Dr. Crabtree resumed his consulting business after leaving PhytoCeutica until he joined PharmaCyte Biotech. Crabtree received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He was a National Cancer Institute of Canada Research Fellow. Crabtree is currently a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Association for Cancer Research. He has served on research grant review committees for the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society.
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About PharmaCyte Biotech: PharmaCyte Biotech is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on developing and preparing to commercialize treatments for cancer.
Graham Hutchins
Chief Operating Officer of NCL Technology Ventures
Graham joined the Technology Strategy Board in 2007 and is responsible for its financial and operational management. He is an experienced commercial director with UK and international experience, including roles with FirstPoint Healthcare Ltd, Vodafone and FedEx.
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About NCL Technology Ventures: NCL Technology Ventures invests transformational equity capital in entrepreneurs who have truly innovative technologies in healthcare
Matthew Khoory
Co-founder & COO of mOm Incubators
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About MedTech Innovator, Metronomic Technology Solutions, mOm Incubators: mOm is an inexpensive, electronically controlled, inflatable incubator constructed to decrease the number of premature child deaths.
Katherine Willetts
COO of DynamX Medical
After graduating from the University of Warwick in 2011 with a BSc. in Biochemistry Katie became interested in translational medicine and biophysics. She went on to complete her PhD at UCL in 2015 in the technical development of infrared spectroscopy for biomedical applications. She has published several papers relating to the handling and analysis of biological samples in infrared spectroscopy research. Several aspects of her research have proven key in the development of the BeamLine algorithm. Katie co-founded BeamLine Diagnostics in March 2015 and continues to work on technical development and data analysis.
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About DynamX Medical, Oxford Pharmagenesis: DynamX Medical has developed a diagnostic system for cancer and pre-cancer.
Quitterie de Rivoyre
Co-Founder & COO of WholyMe
Quitterie de Rivoyre is the co-founder and COO of WholyMe.
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About WholyMe: WholyMe offers the healthiest, effective relief remedies. Our products are all-natural and 100% organic certified.
Nabil Ismail
COO of Plumm
Nabil Ismail is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Healing Clouds LTD. In his career spanning over 12 years, he had held designations at companies ranging from mortgage banking to telecom. He holds Masters degree in Computer Science and Business Administration with specialisation in Finance and Operations. Healing Clouds was hi foray into holistic healthcare with an aim to bring holistic healthcare to the world after his personal experience in the field. He also has an avid interest in painting and sketching when he is not learning something new.
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About Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Gemma Timms
Founder & COO of VitaeVR
Gemma Timms is an executive at Hakluyt and the co-founder of Vitae VR.
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About VitaeVR: Medical devices for early diagnosis of cognitive disease
Neil Harmsworth
Co-Founder & COO of Hussle
Co-Founder and Business Development Director at payasUgym.com. Focused on business innovation, finding new and better ways to do things and challenging ‘business as usual’. Constantly questioning why things are done the way they are and pushing people to think differently. The ‘ideas’ guy.
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About Hussle: The largest health & wellness platform in the UK connecting people and fitness.
Sanmi Ogunmola
Co-Founder & COO of All Shades Covered
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About All Shades Covered: A health and beauty marketplace for Afro-Caribbean consumers.
Nick Denison-Pender
COO of Prescient Healthcare Group
Nick, is COO joined Prescient in 2010. After studying engineering, he held various positions focused on business improvement, mainly in the construction industry. He has worked in many parts of the world, establishing and embedding businesses into local markets. At Prescient, he holds overall responsibility for their operations and infrastructure and has been instrumental in setting up the departments, processes and procedures required to support a growing business.
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About Prescient Healthcare Group: Prescient Healthcare Group was founded in London in 1995, originally specializing in competitive insights.
Fiona du Monceau
COO of ExeVir Bio
Fiona du Monceau is the Chief Operating Officer of ExeVir Bio.
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About ExeVir Bio: ExeVir Bio is a Belgium-based company that develops single-domain antibody-based therapies that help patients ward off viral infections.
Anthony von Christierson
COO & Co-Founder of Baby Bundle
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About Baby Bundle: BabyBundle develops a parenting application and tools to support parents, nannies, and care givers.
Gwenael Gilet
Chief Operating Officer (Founding team) of Juno
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About Juno: Meet Juno, a workplace wellbeing programme that you control.
Sylvain Vuillen
Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Findoc
Sylvain Vuillen is serves as a Chief Operating Officer at Findoc.
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About Findoc: Platform for booking appointments with healthcare professionals.
Rinesh Amin
Founder and COO of DrDoctor
Rinesh Amin is the Founder and COO at DrDoctor.
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About DrDoctor: DrDoctor helps hospitals to deliver patient facing digital solutions.
Jaymin Amin
COO of Ingenza
Jaymin Amin has a successful track record of 15 years of sales, marketing and financial experience in life sciences start-up companies. Working in the life sciences publishing division of the Daily Mail group, Jaymin delivered record revenues and profits, before leaving to co-found a life sciences media company of his own. He joined the board of Ingenza in 2006 as financial director. After helping to grow the business four fold in his first four years, Jaymin was promoted to chief operating officer in 2011.
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About Ingenza, ProFactor Pharma: Ingenza is an industrial biotechnology company.
Lynn Cunningham
Chief Operating Officer of Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
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About Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability: UK medical charity restoring choice and independence to adults with severe/complex neurological disability by providing specialist rehab.
David Lane
COO and Co-Founder of EProfiler Solutions
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About EProfiler Solutions: EProfiler Solutions develops technology solutions to diagnose diseases.
Vasileios Touronis
Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of My Online Therapy
Vasileios Touronis is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder at My Online Therapy.
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About My Online Therapy: MyOnlineTherapy, a mobile mental health company, is the first of its kind virtual psychology clinic.
Alex Blakoe
Chief Operating Officer of Cievert
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About Cievert, JimJam: Making routine healthcare a thing of the past
Juliana Bersani
Co-Founder and COO of Outcomes Based Healthcare Ltd
Juliana Bersani is co-founder and COO at OBH. An economist by background, Juliana worked in strategy consulting, with a strong emphasis in finance and M&A, before moving into the healthcare sector. Following a MBA from CASS Business School, she joined a large international organisation that provides research, consulting, and technology services to healthcare providers worldwide, with focus on quality and operational efficiency in acute care. She concentrated on new market entry and international sales strategy for Latin America and Southern Europe, working with acute providers’ C-suite in trying to identify solutions to their immediate strategic needs. At OBH, Juliana’s focus is twofold; drawing upon a strong background in statistics, her work involves accurate measurement and presentation of outcomes data, ensuring metrics are a true representation of outcomes performance. Juliana’s work also includes reimbursement and contracting for outcomes, having co-authored the paper “Contracting for Outcomes: A Value-Based Approach”, written as a partnership between OBH and Capsticks. Juliana is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
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About Outcomes Based Healthcare Ltd: Outcomes Based Healthcare is an organisation supporting the adoption of outcomes based approaches to healthcare.
Troy Norcross
COO of MyHealthPal
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About MyHealthPal: My Health Pal is a powerful digital companion that enables people with long-term health conditions.
John Whittaker
Chief Operating Officer of Celleron Therapeutics
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About Celleron Therapeutics: Celleron Therapeutics is an oncology company dedicated to funding new and innovative treatments for cancer.
Dennis Belichenko
Chief Operating Officer of EuroMD
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About EuroMD: International European Medical and Health Portal