Research Ethics Committees (RECs) review research applications and give an opinion about whether the research is ethical.- Review applications for health research, typically multiple documents per application with quick turnaround (<1 week)- Ask clarifying questions to researchers to dig further into the details of the application, uncovering potential ethical concerns- Make recommendations for changes or provide a favourable opinon, giving the research team concrete next steps

It’s a thrill to work in an early-stage startup. You’re at the beginning of a journey but you’re constrained by the available funding, the time available to start generating revenue, and the ability of your early employees. Seldom can this journey be made alone. You need to build a high-performing team who will help you achieve your next goal but you’re in the worst possible position to attract the right people. You can never pay the highest salaries, there aren’t good benefits packages, there’s never enough people to do everything that needs doing. It’s not a comfortable environment. Your team has to want to be there. They need to feel that they’re in a job designed for them.Throughout my career, I've developed a method for building high-performing teams. I've seen the same challenges across a number of organisations and developed a playbook. It's time to share that work!I'm taking a short career break to write a book, sharing tried and tested methods for building teams in startups.

Lifelight is an early-stage deep tech computer vision SaaS startup providing clinical vital sign measurements from a video.- Led R&D of the world's first clinically regulated contactless vital sign measurement technology, positioning Lifelight as a global leader- Developed the company's technical strategy and led multiple teams across engineering, product and machine learning- Successfully balanced a finite budget with the imperative need for investment in cutting edge research to improve accuracy and usability- Motivated the team to achieve a reduction in experiment time, from 2 months to a mere 2 days, showcasing exceptional project efficiency- Raised over £4M in dilutive and non-dilutive funding

Personal consultancy providing CTO services, focusing on project recovery for startups and agencies.- Provided a product roadmap and go to market strategy for an established startup to scale from £50M to £100M revenue, helping secure an acquisition- Avoided a lawsuit by identifying process failures in a £1M project which had overrun by 18 months, led teams to completion in 3 months- Renegotiated legacy SLAs for multinational hotel, saving £0.25M p/a without affecting service level objectives

Vet-AI is an early-stage startup developing SaaS telemedicine products for the veterinary sector- Scaled remote engineering team from 0 to 10 FTE and owned product strategy from idea to sustainable revenue in 9 months- Helped secure strategic partnership with Animal Friends and oversaw roll out to over 1M customers- Raised £2.3M Series A at £10M pre-money valuation

Push Doctor is a growth-stage startup providing NHS and private remote healthcare.- Created a strategic vision for AI in healthcare, delivered to the board- Reduced customer service requests by 20% using a chatbot with no negative impact on NPS- Architected and implemented automatic consultation transcription pipeline to fill a data lake

Redbrain is a late-stage startup providing ad buying and management products for ecommerce businesses.- Led a team of 14 engineers to develop automated PPC ad management- Architected a large, distributed system to manage hundreds of millions of adverts in AdWords and Bing- Created an internal SDK to allow the rest of the engineering team to contribute to the project, reducing cost of delivering new features

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