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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the Medical space. If you think a Manager 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.
Abdul Mateen
Regulatory Project Manager of AstraZeneca
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About AstraZeneca: AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines.
Claudia Pyne
Regulatory Publishing Manager of Allergan
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Claudia Pyne
Regulatory Publishing Manager of Allergan
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About Allergan: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company.
Alex Matei
Data Governance Manager of Aetna
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About Aetna: Aetna a diversified health care benefits company, provides individuals and many others with innovative benefits, products, and services.
Andrew Brown
Senior Investment Consultant & Private Equity Manager Research 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.
Andrew Sinclair
Partner & Portfolio Manager of Abingworth
Andrew has more than 10 years experience as an analyst in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. He joined Abingworth in 2008 from HSBC Global Markets, where he was Senior Equity Analyst, Director, responsible for investment research in the mid-cap pharmaceutical sector. Previously, Andrew held biotechnology analyst positions at Credit Suisse and SG Cowen. He completed a PhD in Chemistry and Genetic Engineering at the BBSRC Institute of Plant Science, Norwich, and holds a BSc in Microbiology from King’s College London. Andrew qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG. At Abingworth, he evaluates opportunities in public companies and is a fund manager for open market transactions.
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About Abingworth: Abingworth is an international investment group dedicated to collaborating with life sciences entrepreneurs.
Selby Cary
Technical Operations Manager of TestCard Ltd
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About TestCard Ltd, Ziva Robotics: TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
Clare Gleeson
Operations Manager of Proveca
Clare is an accomplished Project & Programme Manager with a proven track record in delivering highly technical development projects in both Pharma and FMCG sectors. She has a BSC (Hons) science degree and 16 years experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. She understands and can manage the full product lifecycle process from formulation development, manufacturing process development, product registration, supply, through to commercial launch and she is skilled in developing successful partnerships with 3rd party providers. She has held senior positions at Boots Healthcare International and Healthcare Brands International and has managed large-scale portfolio developments (£50+m) and a strategic re-engineering programme. As Auralis’s project manager, Clare was instrumental in delivering the first ever PUMA, for the epilepsy product Buccolam.
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About Proveca: Proveca Ltd is a UK based pharmaceutical company.
Robert Holmes
UK Country Manager of Proveca
Robert Holmes is UK Country Manager at Proveca Ltd. He is an experienced Country Manager within pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Built highly successful teams in Marketing and Sales and developed the infrastructure to deliver exceptional results. Skills honed in big business have been brought into smaller start-up companies with great success.
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About Proveca: Proveca Ltd is a UK based pharmaceutical company.
Ben H. Cohen
CRM Manager of Numan
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About Numan: Numan: Helping Your Health Wherever We Can
Tarun Samtani
Data Protection Officer & Privacy Program Manager of International SOS
Tarun Samtani,CISSP is the Information Security Architect for Ebuyer UK (online retailer) and WREN Living (high street retailer). Tarun holds 15 years of experience across various sectors like Telecommunications, ISP’s, Financial Services, Gambling & Retail. Tarun has worked across UK, Europe, Asia & Middle East on different assignments. He has a wealth of experience in Information Security and is passionate about securing enterprise IT landscapes. During the course of his career Tarun has been involved in the strategy & planning, design, architecture and implementation of a significant number of enterprise security solutions. He has a passion for Cyber Security and enjoys sharing his experience. He also has a keen interest in helping out charities and non-profit board organisations fight cybercrime. His specialisations include strategy and planning of security programmes for Cloud Security, DDoS mitigation, Cyber Defence including Threat Intelligence-led Cyber Incident Response.
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About Bookboon, International SOS: International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Duncan Dallas
Key Account Manager of International SOS
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About International SOS: International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Aiden Berry
Project Manager of Médecins Sans Frontières
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About Médecins Sans Frontières: MSF delivers emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, and natural or man-made disasters.
Shane Moynihan
Senior Manager System Engineering of BrightInsight
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About BrightInsight: BrightInsight offers a global regulated digital health platform for biopharma and medtech.
Andrew McElroy
Co-Founder & Strategic Project Manager of Exvastat
Andrew McElroy is the CEO, Director & Founder of EligoChem & he attended University of Cambridge in 1977.
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About EligoChem, Exvastat, The Research Network: Exvastat is an innovative, preclinical-stage pharmaceutical company.
Nathan Williams
Facilities & IT Manager of Cambridge Epigenetix
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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.
James Cass
Manager of research and development of Phico Therapeutics
James Cass has been serving as manager of research and development at Phico Therapeutics since April 2016.
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About Phico Therapeutics: Phico Therapeutics is a developer of novel platform technology designed to overcome antibacterial resistance.
Terry Sunderland
European Sales Manager of SpeeDx
Terry Sunderland is an EMEA Sales Manager at SpeeDx. Prior to joining SpeeDx, he served as a sales specialist for clinical research at BD for over three years. He also worked as the product manager of biotherapeutics at Molecular Devices.
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About SpeeDx: SpeeDx is a provider of innovative multiplex and isothermal amplification solutions for clinical diagnostics.
Alan Lawrenson
Customer Retention Manager of MedicAnimal.com
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About MedicAnimal.com: MedicAnimal.com is an e-commerce company specializing in veterinary and pet retail.
Graeme Tunbridge
Group Manager – Devices Regulatory Affairs of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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About Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: An executive agency of the Department of Health, exists to enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day.
Mick Foy
Group Manager, Vigilance Intelligence and Research Group of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Mick has been with the MHRA’s Vigilance Intelligence and Research Group for 9 years. Amongst his responsibilities is the operation of the UK’s Yellow Card Scheme and the MHRA’s signal detection systems. He is also responsible for two large European projects to improve drug safety monitoring. The EC funded SCOPE (Strengthening Collaborations to Operate Pharmacovigilance in Europe) Joint Action aims to improve the pharmacovigilance capabilities of national regulators in Europe, and the Innovative Medicines Initiative funded WEB-RADR (Recognising Adverse Drug Reactions) project seeks to deliver mobile Apps for reporting ADRs and to utilise social media for drug safety purposes.
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About Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: An executive agency of the Department of Health, exists to enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day.
Elizabeth Jamieson
Senior Product Manager of Vernacare
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About Vernacare: Vernacare is infection control organisation provides an innovative single-use system.
Katherine Sanders
Brand Manager of Winncare
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About Winncare: Winncare supplies homecare products for dependent people and the elderly in France and other European countries.
Michael King
Investor Relations Manager of Advanced Medical Solutions
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About Advanced Medical Solutions: Advanced Medical Solutions is a UK. based company developing and providing. leading edge technology to the global. wound care market.
Charles Ball
Co-Founder and Commercial Manager of Chronomics
Charles Ball is the Co-Founder and Commercial Manager at Chronomics.
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About Chronomics: Tech-bio company, providing access to a ‘bio-infrastructure’ to simplify and speed-up the use of biomarkers to improve everyday decisions.
Mark Lewis
Sales & Account Manager of DorsaVI
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About DorsaVI: DorsaVi is a biotechnology company developing innovative motion analysis device technologies.
Dr Brian Steer
Research and Development Manager of ANCON Medical
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About ANCON Medical: ANCON Medical is a subsidiary of ANCON Technologies and is a medical & screening device maker of non-invasive disease screening technology.
Chris Wootton
Founder and R&D Manager of Verdel Instruments
Chris is the leader of the hardware and software development team, with over 6 years MS experience. Chris was involved in designing and building the prototype. He is the company’s electronics & software specialist.
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About Verdel Instruments: Verdel Instruments has developed new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology.
JJ Ketchen
Office Manager of Sphere Medical Holding
Mrs Ketchen is responsible for Sphere’s administration, human resources, facilities management, IT and health and safety functions. She joined Sphere in 2005 following an assignment with the Generics Group (now Sagentia). Prior to this she spent 23 years with Reuters, principally in the newsroom and in transaction systems development.
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About Sphere Medical Holding: Sphere Medical Holding develops and commercializes monitoring products for critical care environments.
Mike Cummins
Senior Territory Sales Manager LSS of Nitritex
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About Nitritex: Nitritex is a manufacturer of premium cleanroom and healthcare Life Sciences consumables.
Scott Deamer-Smith
Engineering Manager 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.
Barbara Brummell
Accounts Manager 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.
