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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 Founder operating in the Clinical Trials space. If you think a Founder 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.
John E. Milad
CEO & Founder of Quanta
John E. Milad is a global healthcare executive, board member, investor, speaker and author. He has a career spanning over 25 years, with experience working in various senior positions in the healthcare sector, including NBGI Ventures, Atlas Venture, Nitec Pharma and Nomura. Currently, John is Chief Executive Officer and founding board member at Quanta Dialysis Technologies, where he recently raised $245m in Series D funding. An executive with international experience in building and growing successful healthcare companies, John had the vision and belief that core technology of managing fluidics on a disposable cartridge could be developed into a portable hemodialysis device with the potential to address multiple unmet needs in the $93 billion global dialysis market. John is a regular speaker and panelist at global medtech and investment conferences and has co-authored 4 peer-reviewed papers.
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About NBGI Ventures, Quanta: Quanta develops an advanced haemodialysis systems for use in the home and clinic.
Ian Mills
Director of Software Engineering and Co-Founder of Clinpal
Ian has been directly involved in the development of some of the leading, and most advanced EDC systems brought to market in the last 15 years. At eClinicalHealth, he continues to lead from the front by supporting clients integrate and extend their eClinical solutions. Ian is an expert in agile software development methods, and besides his hands-on technical prowess he has take the lead in ensuring organizations he works with have bullet proof auditability throughout their product development lifecycle. All work carried out at eClinicalHealth follows either our own rigorous agile Software Development LifeCycle, or, if preferred our sponsors. Ian’s EDC products have been used globally by companies such as Roche, Novartis, Merck and Johnson & Johnson. Ian is a master of CDISC standards – ODM specifically – as well as Web technologies for regulated industries that include; RUP, XP, UML, SCRUM, Agile Development, JEE (JPA, JSF, JSP, JMS, JMX, JTA), Spring Framework, Eclipse, Hibernate, Tapestry, Web Services, JavaScript, Ajax, GWT, JQuery, SQL (Oracle, DB2, MySQL), XML, NoSQL Databases (ObjectStore, Mongo, CouchDB), C/C++, Groovy, Python. Besides Ian’s computing language proficiency, Ian is also fluent in both English and German.
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About Clinpal: Clinpal is a leading cloud-based digital patient recruitment and engagement platform.
Mathieu de Beaumont
Co-Founder / Director of Dementech
Co-Founder of Dementech Neurosciences
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Michel Rabhi
Founder and Director of Dementech
Owner and Director at Dementech Neurosciences
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Ronan Cunningham
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BrainWaveBank
Ronan has more than 20 years of experience in advanced engineering and product development. He was one of the founding members of ATA Engineering, an award-winning San Diego-based engineering company specializing in development of innovative hardware and software technologies for the aerospace and defence industries. His roles have included Director of Business Development and Director of New Technology Development. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the Northern Ireland Science Park. His expertise is in early stage technology development, innovation strategy, and technology commercialisation. He holds an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.
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About BrainWaveBank, Cumulus Neuroscience: BrainWaveBank makes it possible to measure and track brain activity and cognitive performance for anyone, anytime, anywhere.
Rogelio Arellano
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Michael Young
Co-Founder of Lindus Health
Michael Young is the Co-Founder at Lindus Health.
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About Lindus Health: Lindus Health’s mission is to accelerate research for the next generation of health companies.
Meri Beckwith
Co-Founder of Lindus Health
Meri Beckwith is the Co-Founder at Lindus Health.
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About Lindus Health: Lindus Health’s mission is to accelerate research for the next generation of health companies.
Nativ Segev
Managing Director & Co Founder of MGC Pharmaceuticals
Nativ Segev is the Founder and Director of MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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About MGC Pharmaceuticals: MGC Pharmaceuticals is a company founded with vision. A vision of globalizing the arena in which Cannabis, and specifically CBD.
Duncan Hall
Founder and CEO of Triumph Research Intelligence
Duncan has over fifteen years of consultancy experience, thirteen of which have been within clinical R&D in both CRO and Pharma businesses. Duncan started Triumph in 2002 with the aim of building a global business which would be focused in improving the delivery, quality and value of clinical systems. Duncan now takes a primarily strategic role in TRI, but still performs client delivery roles where possible.
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About Triumph Research Intelligence: Triumph Research Intelligence is a risk-Based Monitoring Company.
Jonathan Allis
Co-Founder & CEO of Blue Earth Diagnostics
Jonathan Allis is the founding CEO of Blue Earth Diagnostics. Prior to this role, Jonathan was the General Manager for PET at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, and had global responsibility for GE Healthcare’s PET agent and PET synthesis platforms business. He has previously held positions in R&D, Marketing and Product Development at GE Healthcare, Amersham plc., Siemens Medical Solutions and Oxford Magnet Technology, in the UK, USA and Germany. Jonathan has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Cape Town and a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
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About Blue Earth Diagnostics: BlueEarth Diagnostics mission is to transform the clinical management of recurrent prostate cancer
Deborah O’Neil
Founder & CEO of NovaBiotics
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About BEAM Alliance, NovaBiotics: NovaBiotics Ltd is a clinical-stage biotechnology company.
Ivaylo Yosifov
Co-Founder and CTO of FindMeCure
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About FindMeCure: FindMeCure helps anyone to easily find future treatments and apply for participation in studies within a few clicks.
Cath Booth
Founder and Director, Research Services of Epistem
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About Epistem, Epistem: Epistem’s specialist contract research services provide valuable support to drug discovery and development pipelines.
Paul Fotheringham
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints
Paul Fotheringham is Founder & Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints UK Ltd.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Henry Pinchbeck
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints
Henry Pinchbeck is Co-Founder Chief Executive Officer of 3D LifePrints.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Anne Dickinson
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Alcyomics
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About Alcyomics: Alcyomics is a UK based unique pre-clinical service provider non-artificial human skin explants for safety and efficacy assessment.
