Leadership
Core Team
Prof. K. Michael Spyer, PhD, Chairman
Former Chair of National Health Service London
Former Vice-Provost for Biomedicine and former Vice-Provost for Enterprise at the University College London
Dr. Everard Mascarenhas, PhD, MBA
CEO
Over 25 years experience commercialising early-stage technologies;
served as the CEO of three start-ups, guiding them from concept to profitability.
Prof. Alexander Gourine, PhD, Founder & CSO
Professor of Physiology; Director of the Research Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience at the University College London
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Dr. Andrey Gourine, MD, PhD
Founder & CMO
Cardiologist with extensive expertise in cardiovascular research, Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Formerly led the Cardiovascular Drug Discovery program at Servier Pharma.
Tim O'Connell
CFO
Qualified ACA, expert in licensing and international distribution contracts
Our Advisors
Prof. Per-Ove Sjoqust, PhD
Prof. Emeritus, Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden; 25+ years of executive level experience in the pharmaceutical industry; Former chief of Cardiovascular Pharmacology Department at AstraZeneca
Prof. Julian FR Paton, PhD, FRSNZ
Professor of Translational Physiology and Director of The Heart Research Centre (Auckland, NZ); world leading authority in the mechanisms of hypertension
Dr. George Zajicek, PhD
Regulatory expert, George Zajicek (ex-Director of Regulatory Affairs at Boehringer Ingelheim and Unipath and Marketing Director, Axis-Shield) has taken several pharmaceutical and device-based treatments through the CE and FDA approval processes