An accomplished life science executive with over 20 years’ experience across pharmaceutical and public sector organizations. Supported all stages of the R&D pipeline but with a significant focus on late-stage medicine development and commercialization. A strategic thinker with a track record of building new organizations and teams. Excellent communicator and a widely recognized expert in data science and healthcare informaticsInternationally renowned epidemiologist who started his career as a statistician principally focused on the application of epidemiological methods to advance the understanding of human disease. During his career, Andrew has worked mostly in infectious agents and oncology, but his work has covered the spectrum of conditions from rare genetic diseases through to chronic diseases of old age. Strong interest in health informatics with specific focus on the ability to link research studies with routinely collected healthcare data. This has led to a more recent focus on informatics methods to extract, curate and utilize existing information principally collected within electronic health records alongside a major interest in digital health tools to enable more user centered data collection in a less invasive and more routine way. An interest which aligned to ongoing efforts to consider how connected/learning healthcare systems can advance patient outcomes.