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Canada

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Guiding and implementing venture development, R&D programmes and fundraising strategies for the exciting AI/ML startup Jiva.ai.Imagine being able to compress weeks of AI development into days, or even minutes. All without writing a single line of code.That is Jiva.ai: A no-code SAAS platform that puts AI creation back in the hands of the domain experts and can reduce AI development costs by up to 90%.Truly multimodal AI. For anything. Anywhere.

London, United Kingdom

Providing biotechnology and strategic development consultation to early-stage and established healthcare/life science ventures, research institutes and charities.• Advises on venture development and business strategy (>20 ventures).• Builds and implements business plans, models, and fundraising strategies (>£20M value).• Develops proposals and wins C-suite support from clients and partnerships for new ventures.• Designs R&D programs, builds collaborations with world-leading institutes and wins public and private business/R&D funding (>£10M value). • Advises on existing and emerging biotech capabilities and deployment potential.Currently advancing new ventures in precision medicine, medtech, agritech and AI/ML.

Providing strategic management and venture development advice, and managing flagship R&D programmes for the startup enterprise Kinomica Ltd. Kinomica's unique technology suite KScan - an advanced phosphoproteomics-based multi-analyte cell signalling analysis platform - has game-changing capabilities to stratify patients, guide therapeutic selection, and inform drug target discovery and drug development programmes. KScan can far surpass the accuracy of current genetic biomarkers to better predict patient responders and non-responders to targeted therapies, and illuminate the mechanisms of action of disease, therapeutic intervention and resistance.

London, United Kingdom

Invited part-time leadership and advisory role with an early-stage cloud computing venture supporting life sciences R&D and emerging healthcare services.• Counsels leadership on company formation, strategic plans and business models.• Advises on R&D for bioinformatics product development and applications in academia, industry and healthcare services.• Develops and manages the business development programme to identify key markets, attract new business and drive client engagement.

London, United Kingdom

Providing specialist consultation to:• Lead investigators and research teams at hosting institutions (>200 scientists and clinicians);• External research teams, organisations and biotech firms (>25)• Business and technology advisory firms (3)• Steering and oversight committees, review panels, and executive boards (>10)• Scientific journals and funding agencies (>10)Consultation examples:• Counsel leadership on strategic biotechnology and infrastructure needs.• Develop and implement business models, cost models and client engagement strategies.• Advise on operations and team management.• Horizon scan technology solutions and capabilities, assess future impact and market needs.• Advise on state-of-the-art technologies in translational medicine and imaging.• Advise on the scientific rigour, cost effectiveness, and feasibility of research proposals.

London, United Kingdom

Provided consultation to advise the interim Proteomics & Metabolomics Facility Head and facilitate business continuity.• Guided operations and team management, and implemented fully costed charging models.• Counselled on client, vendor and stakeholder project engagement and relationship management.• Advised on biotechnology capabilities and deployment, including instrument configurations, protocol optimisations, and recommended new innovations.

United Kingdom

Established a Proteomics biotech unit to provide science as a service in consultative and collaborative modes. Continually developed the unit over six years through two successful business cases (~£3.5M value) to grow headcount to 5, treble laboratory capacity and expand services to include metabolomic and clinical applications.Key responsibilities:• Establish, manage, operate and develop a state-of-the-art biotechnology unit.• Prepare and present business cases, annual reports and critical unit reviews to executive directors and independent evaluation panels.• Develop and implement cost recovery and full economic costed business models.• Manage budgets, charging mechanisms and high value procurement exercises (>£1.5M).• Recruit, train, and direct staff to consult with clients to: calibrate expectations; design and agree strategies, milestones and deliverables; execute work plans and close out with formal reports.• Innovate, optimise and implement novel technologies and applications.• Provide specialist consultation on scientific strategies and technology capabilities.• Design, develop and critique studies and support grant writing.• Directly contribute to strategic vision and decision making; identify opportunities, recognise bottlenecks and propose actions and solutions in line with stakeholder strategy.Key achievements:• Establishing a successful biotech unit within the Institute of Cancer Research.• Preparing, presenting and winning executive approval for two business cases (~£3.5M value).• Winning a pilot commercialisation award to develop a new biotechnology (~£50k value).• Delivering together with over 150 scientists and clinicians - our technological innovations and scientific discoveries are described in >20 peer-reviewed publications.

Institute Of Psychiatry

Responsible for the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre of Neurodgeneration mass spectrometry projects and requests, and promotion of the proteomics unit at King's College London. This was a fantastic opportunity to engage with the wider researcher base and clinical programs, showcase our capabilities, and continue to develop our technologies.Key responsibilities were to:• Provide consultation to lead investigators to design projects and advise on grant proposals.• Manage and supervise projects, and train students in proteomics and bioinformatics.• Manage and assist the unit technician to complete service work and close out with formal reports.• Develop a service cost model and promote the academic service for King’s College London.Our technology developments and scientific and clinical discoveries are reported in 5 publications.

& King'S College London, The Institute Of Psychiatry, London Uk

Joint Industrial-Academic position with the biotech company Proteome Sciences plc and King's College London to spearhead an ambitious Alzheimer’s disease drug target discovery program.I designed and implemented workflows for new quantitative proteomic chemistries to enable an unprecedented scale of analysis at the institute. Achievements also included developing further improvements to phosphoproteomic protocols, creating a new method for sensitive and quantitative membrane proteomics using isobaric tagging chemistries, and overseeing the design, creation and implementation of the bioinformatics protocols and tools required to analyse extensive datasets.Innovations and discoveries are reported in 4 peer-reviewed publications (as principle author), and 10 conference presentations including 4 invited talks (London, Manchester, Vienna and Zurich).

University College London

First post-doc appointment with Rainer Cramer's lab at the Ludwig Cancer Institute. This was my first foray into the nascent field of Proteomics, which had been made possible by the completion of the Human Genome Project.My work involved pioneering innovative chemical applications to enable high sensitivity biological analysis of proteins and phosphorylation. I enjoyed collaborations within the Proteomics unit, with biological research teams at the Ludwig Institute, and with chemistry teams at the University College London Chemistry department and the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research.Innovations and discoveries from this work are reported in 2 peer-reviewed publications and a patent application, and 7 conference presentations including an invited talk at the annual American Society of Mass Spectrometry meeting.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

Thesis: Structural studies of the neurotoxic proteins of Prion disease and Alzheimer's disease. I applied my chemistry expertise.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry & Biochemistry, First Class Honours

Chemical subjects: Organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, polymer and natural products chemistry. Biological subjects: Biochemistry.