Experience

Elixa MediScience

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Nov 2019 - 4 years 2 months

  Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom



The Brain Tumour Charity

• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Trustee

  • Sep 2016 - 7 years 4 months

  Farnborough The Brain Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, making a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families.



Welsh Government

• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sêr Cymru II Independent Evaluation Panel member

  • Jul 2015 - 8 years 6 months

  Cardiff, United Kingdom Sêr Cymru II builds on the success of the £50m Sêr Cymru programme, which was launched in 2012 and brought international scientists to research chairs at Wales’ universities and created three new national research networks.



University of Bristol

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Oct 2017 - 6 years 3 months

• Life Science Entrepreneur in Residence

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2017

  Bristol, United Kingdom



British Neuroscience Association (BNA)

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non Executive Director

  • Jul 2013 - 10 years 6 months

  London, United Kingdom



Cerebroscience

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

• Chief Executive Officer

  • May 2013 - 10 years 8 months

  London, United Kingdom



University of Reading

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • May 2013 - 10 years 8 months

  Reading, United Kingdom



University College London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Professor

  • Oct 2012 - 11 years 3 months

  London, United Kingdom



One Nucleus

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jun 2010 - 13 years 7 months

  England Board Director



MS Society

• United Arab Emirates
• Non-profit Organizations

• Member of the MS Society Drug Selection Group

  • 2017 - Nov 2019

  London, United Kingdom This group is focussed on the assessment and selection of appropriate drugs to be trialled in progressive multiple sclerosis.



MS Therapeutics

• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and Director

  • Sep 2008 - Dec 2016

  MS Therapeutics is a Speciality Pharmaceutical company with a focus on multiple sclerosis and related disorders.



Dementia Care Nurses CIC

• Board Director

  • May 2015 - Jan 2016

  Maidenhead Dementia Care Nurses Community Interest Company is a non for profit social enterprise opened to raise funds to employ a specialist Dementia Nurse, known as an Admiral Nurses, for people in the Maidenhead area who have been medically diagnosed with dementia.



Brain-e-Games Ltd

• Chairman of the Board

  • Oct 2014 - Dec 2015

  London Brain-e-Games Ltd is developing digital games for the detection, management and treatment of brain disorders. The initial focus is the detection of memory impairments that indicate an increased risk of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease.



Pharmidex

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and Chairman

  • May 2002 - Aug 2008

  Executive Chairman



Vernalis

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project leader

  • 1999 - 2002

  Leader of a multidisciplinary project to discover new medicines for the treatment of both stroke and neuropathic pain.

• Co-founder and Head of Department

  • 1995 - 1999

  The driving force behind the formation of the UK's first neuroscience start-up company and Director of the Department of Neuroochemistry.



Cerexus

• United Kingdom

• Co-founder and Director

  • 1999 - 2002

  Project Leader and Company Director



Wyeth

• United States
• Wholesale
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager

  • 1994 - 1995

  Leader of a team providing critical neurochemical data for multiple drug discovery projects.



University of Pittsburgh

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Faculty member

  • May 1989 - Sep 1994

  Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology Prinicipal Investigator in the Alzheimer's Disease Research Centre Prinicipal Investigator and co-founder of the Head Injury Research Centre

• Miriam Marks Research Fellow

  • Feb 1985 - Sep 1989

  Studies to establish the involvement of monaminergic and pyramidal neurons in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease.