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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 Managing Director operating in the Medical Device space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Katherine Ward
Chief Commercial Officer, Managing Director UK & Europe of Healthy.io
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About Healthy.io: Healthy.io converts smartphone cameras into a clinical grade medical device.
Soren Krogsgaard Thomsen
Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of BioMe Oxford
Soren is a medical scientist at the University of Oxford, with a background in the natural sciences and genetics research. He previously worked as a consultant for pharma and OBR consulting, and has published on his experiences as an academic entrepreneur. Soren’s current research is focused on translating large-scale genetic data into mechanisms for disease to inform new therapeutic strategies. He dreams of one day enabling similar population-wide microbiome studies using the platform technology under development at BioMe Oxford Ltd.
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About BioMe Oxford, Vertex Pharmaceuticals: Unlocking your gut microbiome by developing a medical device for targeted and non-invasive sampling
Duncan Hynd
Managing Director of Advanced Oncotherapy
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About Advanced Oncotherapy, Hynd Healthcare: Advanced Oncotherapy is a medical technology company providing advanced radiotherapy systems for the treatment of common and rare cancers.
Mark Lait
Vice-president & Managing Director of Water-Jel Technologies
Mark joined the company in 1992 as the WaterJel distributor for the UK and Ireland; his geographic responsibility increased in 2003 to all international business. Prior to 1992, Mark was a director of a number of medium-sized medical companies with manufacturing bases in UK, U.S. and Australia. With a background in medical engineering, HND MEng, he has been responsible for the design and development of unique technologies used in pediatric / neonatal care and the treatment of thermal injuries. Based at WaterJel’s UK office, Mark is multilingual and has lived and worked in several countries, contributing to his extensive international business experience.
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About Water-Jel Technologies: Water-Jel is a manufacturer of branded and private label specialty medical products.
Andrew Newell
Managing Director & Founder of Cipher Surgical
Andrew Newell is Founder & Managing Director at Cipher Surgical
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About Cipher Surgical, Exomedica: Cipher Surgical is a medical device company established to design, patent, and globally market its laparoscopic medical device.
Albert Nicholl
Managing Director of Freedom One Life
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About Freedom One Life: Redefining mobility
David Maughan
Managing Director of MESM
David Maughan is the Chairman and President of MESM. Prior to co-founding the business 9 years ago, David spent 30+ years as a procurement professional within the automotive industry. His final position as Procurement Director at Bentley allowed him to bring the culture and behaviours of a company focussed on both innovation and customer experience and apply them to the clinical trial equipment supply industry. By using this approach, David has historically lead the rapid growth of MESM based on its ability to deliver on its promises and he is looking forward to seeing the continued expansion of the business under David Parry’s leadership.
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About MESM: MESM a provider of laboratory and medical equipment and ancillary supplies to clinical trials worldwide.
Bruce Renfrew
Managing Director of Renfrew Group International
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About Renfrew Group International: Award winning Renfrew Group are a full service, product design consultancy.
Jason Smith
Managing Director of Bedfont Scientific
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About Bedfont Scientific: Bedfont Scientific specializes in the design and manufacture of exhaled breath and gas monitoring instruments.
Pawel de Sternberg Stojalowski
Managing Director & Founder of Aseptium
Company was originated out of Pawel’s passion for clever solutions as he is a design engineer, first and foremost. Thanks to his background in mechanical engineering (MSc 2006), automation and robotics (BSc 2006) as well as business (MBA 2013) he takes an interdisciplinary approach to projects, integrating both engineering and commercial aspects. Decontamination of surgical instruments combines many disciplines of science and that is what brought Pawel into this environment. Complexity as well as multitude of problems require creativity and a wide spectrum of knowledge in order to devise innovative solutions. Pawel was involved in R&D of surgical instruments reprocessing equipment since 2007. In that time he contributed to over 100 products that reached the market – from ultrasonic washers through pass-through washer disinfectors to sterilisation indicators. Today his main focus is on complex surgical instruments and challenges industry faces reprocessing them.
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About Aseptium: Aseptium provides innovative decontamination solutions that reduce infections carried by dirty surgical instruments.
Sam Ford
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Tap2Tag
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About Tap2Tag: Tap2Tag is seeking further investment for expansion plans into overseas markets.
Howard Smith
Managing Director of CamNtech
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About CamNtech: CamNtech provides professional wearable medical devices.
