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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Managing Director operating in the Medical 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.
Duncan Anderson
Managing Director of Willis Towers Watson
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About Willis Towers Watson: Willis Towers Watson is a global advisory and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth.
Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Andrew Shepherd
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Omega Diagnostics
Andrew Shepherd is the Founder and Managing Director of Omega Diagnostics Limited. He is responsible for corporate strategy, general management, sales and marketing and technical direction. He has been involved in the medical diagnostics industry for the last 35 years. He started his career in 1974 by holding technical positions at G.D. Searle Limited and then attended university, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He then moved into a sales and marketing position at Cambridge Life Sciences plc in 1981, before establishing his first diagnostics company, Cambridge Biomedical Limited in 1982. In 1986 he moved to Scotland to join Bioscot Limited and shortly afterwards, established Omega. Shepherd used his technical experience and knowledge of exporting to oversee the growth of the export of Omega products to exceed £2 million per annum. Omega now exports to over 100 countries around the world, and he travels regularly to many of the countries in which Omega customers are based. Shepherd is an active member of a number of relevant trade associations and was a member of the Scottish Exports Forum, a body which reported to the Scottish Parliament to oversee and guide the export activity of Scottish Development International. Mr Shepherd was also a member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s (BMGF) Global Health Diagnostics Forum, which provides direct guidance to BMGF in advising on future investments in worldwide diagnostics programmes for developing countries.
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About Global DX Ltd, Omega Diagnostics: Omega Diagnostics provides IVD products for use in hospitals, blood banks, clinics, and laboratories.
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.
Raj Vora
Founder & Managing Director of Revital
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About Revital: Revital is an independent company with a mission to care for the wellbeing and health of our customers.
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.
Peter Blencowe
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Peter Blencowe is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
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
Banafshe Larijani
Co-founder, Joint Managing Director and CSO of Fastbase Solutions
Banafshe Larijani holds a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Head of Cell Biophysics Laboratory since 2002 at Cancer Research UK, she was appointed Senior Scientist in 2012 and in 2014 was awarded the Ikerbasque Research Professorship. She holds adjunct professorships with University of Bath (UK), Stony Brooks University NY and University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, (USA). Her laboratory is a cutting-edge cross-disciplinary platform, which draws upon the physical sciences to develop novel avenues for investigation of biological processes in signalling. The outcomes of her fundamental research involving the application of quantitative imaging (FRET-FLIM) for investigating molecular mechanisms of various oncoproteins have resulted in their application to clinical objectives. Cell Biophysics is now at the Biophysics Institute Insituto Biofisika) and Research Centre for Experimental Marine Biology and Biotechnology (PiE) in Bilbao, Spain.
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About Fastbase Solutions: Fastbase Solutions is a cancer diagnostics platform.
Anya Roy
Managing Director of Syrona Health
Anya Roy is the co-founder of Syrona Health.
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About Syrona Health: Syrona Health is a personalised digital health platform for Chronic Gynaecological/Uterine Conditions like Endometriosis, PCOS etc.
Chantelle Bell
Managing Director of Syrona Health
Chantelle Bell is the Managing Director and co-founder of Syrona Health.
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About Syrona Health: Syrona Health is a personalised digital health platform for Chronic Gynaecological/Uterine Conditions like Endometriosis, PCOS etc.
Apostolos Papadopoulos
Managing Director of Crop Intellect
Dr. Apostolos Papadopoulos founded Crop Intellect in November 2011, since which he has been serving as its managing director.
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About Crop Intellect: Crop Intellect operates a research and development company that develops agricultural technologies that improves crop productivity.
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.
Dominic Farmer
Managing Director of Cisiv
Dominic Farmer has over 25 years experience in both healthcare technology and observational research. He set up Cisiv to provide technologies for use in real world research following extensive experience with leading global Pharma companies in the software development and implementation of large-scale global studies.
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About Cisiv: Cisiv is a developer of technology solutions for pharmaceutical companies.
Ian Fotheringham
Managing Director of Ingenza
Ian Fotheringham received a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Glasgow, UK, in 1986. He joined the NutraSweet division of Monsanto in Chicago, USA, constructing microbes to produce the Aspartame® sweetener. From 1993, he continued developing large-scale bioprocesses with NSC Technologies and Great Lakes Fine Chemicals. Ian co-founded Ingenza in 2003, has published 35 papers and articles, and holds eight current patents.
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About Ingenza: Ingenza is an industrial biotechnology company.
Dr Smita Mehra
Managing Director of The Neem Tree Dental Group
Founder and Principal Dentist
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About : Dental practices and aesthetics clinics
Mika Reinikainen
Managing Director of Abnovo
Mika Reinikainen, LL.M., MBA is the founder and Managing Director of AbNovo Ltd. He was previously Vice President of Quintiles Consulting Europe and head of the operation for 4 years. His consulting experience in the health care product field spans another 9 years. Prior to this he was for 2 years Legal Counsel at Hogan & Hartson responsible for the European health care practice. In the first 12 years of his career, Mika Reinikainen was in charge of European Corporate Regulatory Affairs for Pfizer Hospital Products dealing with a variety of products of the company’s subsidiaries such as orthopaedic implants (Howmedica), cardiovascular implants and devices (Shiley), sutures (Deknatel), blood pumps (Stöckert), electrosurgical equipment (Valleylab), ostomy products (United), angioplasty catheters (Schneider) and penile implants (AMS). Mika Reinikainen has been involved directly in the development of the Medical Devices Directives (as Consultant to the European Commission and through trade associations). He headed the working group that developed the European medical device classification system and subsequently chaired the European Commission’s Working Group on Classification. This classification system has been adopted by the Global Harmonisation Task Force (GHTF) and many countries around the world (Australia, Canada and Japan). He has also directly contributed to the development of Commission’s guidance (MEDDEV documents) on classification, vigilance and the drug/device borderline. He has been involved in the development on the technical standards on labelling of medical devices and the medical device nomenclature as Chairman of CEN TC 257 and risk analysis as a member of that group. He is a founder and Chairman of the European Association of Authorised Representatives (EAAR). He is also past Vice President Europe of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS). He received his Master’s Degree in Law from the Institute of the Law of Peace and Development, University of Nice, France. He obtained his Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
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About Abnovo: AbNovo Ltd provides a comprehensive range of services for the medical device industry.
Alya Shakir
Founder & Managing Director of Private Walk-In Clinic
Managing Director of the Harley Health Centre Group
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About : Private medical services in the City of London.
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.
Jane James
Managing Director & Expert Witness of Jane James and Associates
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About Jane James and Associates: An independent Medico-Legal reporting company
Darryl Mydat
Managing Director of TLTP Education
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About TLTP Education: Education and Medical Recruitment Specialists
Francis Namouk
Managing Director of Videum
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About Videum: Videum facilitates an online platform that enables its users to find and publish videos related to health and wellness.
Howard Smith
Managing Director of CamNtech
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About CamNtech: CamNtech provides professional wearable medical devices.
