A highly experienced pharmaceutical industry entrepreneur and executive with over 25 years of valuation creation and delivery in both private and public ownership environments. A creative, lateral thinker with proven entrepreneurial flair and a clear record of delivering shareholder value. Key strengths include business leadership experience, creation and delivery of effective business strategy, as well as effective communication and relationship building capabilities. Founder and erstwhile Board member/CEO of Shield Therapeutics plc, a speciality pharma company focused on the development and commercialisation of proprietary prescription medicines allow patients to be people again. I was the key investor contact, as well as having primary responsibility for the creation and delivery of the Company’s strategy. Key achievements in this role included:• Raising c. $150m of investment in both the private and public investor environments, including taking Shield through a successful IPO process in 2016 (LSE AIM: STX.L)• Acquiring and/or inbound licensing of novel pharmaceutical assets for development and commercialisation to the benefit of Shield’s shareholders• Leading the development and subsequent approval in the EU (EMA) and USA (FDA) of Shield’s primary asset, Feraccru/Accrufer as well as taking PT20 to Phase 3 readiness• Negotiating and executing numerous outbound licensing agreements of Shield’s Feraccru/Accrufer with pharmaceutical partners, realising more than £20m in upfront licence payments as well as setting up the opportunity for hundreds of millions of £ of milestone and royalty payments over the IP life of the asset• Extensive investor, analyst, shareholder and media communications• Building a deeply experienced, robust and adaptable international organisation with a ‘can do’ culture that was fit to successfully deal with a multitude of complex cultural, institutional regulatory issues common to a growing and ambitious entrepreneurial businessOn a personal level I am a results-focused and indefatigable individual who is a creative, lateral thinker with proven entrepreneurial flair that is matched to a clear record of delivering shareholder value. Key personal strengths include business leadership experience, decisiveness, effective delegation, creation and delivery of value-creating business strategies, effective communication skills and a strong relationship and team-builder with an ability to engender a highly inclusive, positive and committed corporate culture.