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Bryan Morton BSc MBA, Non-executive ChairmanBryan Morton was appointed to the Board in October 2008 and appointed as Chairman in August 2011. He is Chief Executive Officer of EUSA Pharma, Inc., a rapidly growing specialty pharmaceutical company he founded in 2006. He is a non-executive director of Dechra Pharmaceuticals plc, Aircraft Medical Ltd, and is a member of the Pilgrim Software global advisory board. He began his pharmaceutical career in sales and has held positions in medical information, marketing, sales management, business development and general management during a 30 year career in the healthcare industry, largely with Merck and Co. Inc. and Bristol Myers Squibb. In 2003, he founded Zeneus Pharma, which was sold to Cephalon Inc. in late 2005 for US$360 million. He has a BSc in Pharmacology from Aberdeen University and a MBA from Durham University. |
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Michael Hunt BSc ACA, Chief Executive OfficerMichael Hunt joined ReNeuron as Chief Financial Officer and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in September 2003 and Chief Executive Officer in July 2005. Prior to ReNeuron, he spent six years at Biocompatibles International plc (sold to BTG plc) where he held a number of senior financial and general management positions. His early industrial career was spent at Bunzl plc. He sits on the BioIndustry Association’s Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Advisory Committee and its Finance and Tax Advisory Committee. He is a Senior Industry Group member of the UK Government’s Office for Life Sciences and a member of the UK Technology Strategy Board’s RegenMed Advisory Group. He read economics at University College London and qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young in London. |
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Dr John Sinden BA MA Ph.D, Chief Scientific OfficerDr John Sinden is a scientific co-founder of ReNeuron. Prior to joining ReNeuron as Chief Scientific Officer in October 1998, he was Reader in Neurobiology of Behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Paris at the College de France. He subsequently held post-doctoral appointments at Oxford University and the Institute of Psychiatry prior to joining the permanent staff of the Institute in 1987. Dr. Sinden is a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Society for Neuroscience and the International Society for Cellular Therapies. He sits on the Industry Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for Ocular Regeneration, Schepens Eye Research Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Expert Working Group on Cell and Gene Therapies for the Bioindustry Organization BioSafe Committee.
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John Berriman BEng MBA, Non-executive Director |
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Simon Cartmell BSc MSc, Non-executive DirectorSimon Cartmell was appointed to the Board in July 2011. He was, until June 2010, Chief Executive Officer of ApaTech Ltd, which he built into a world leader in orthobiologics. Its sale to Baxter International Inc for $330m was completed in March 2010. Prior to ApaTech he was CEO of Celltech Pharmceuticals and a director of Celltech Group plc. Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer of Vanguard Medica plc. His early career was spent at Glaxo plc in multiple senior UK and global commercial strategy, product development, supply chain, marketing, sales and business development roles. He is a Medical Microbiology graduate from Manchester University and an alumnus of the London Business School Sloan Fellowship Programme. He is currently Executive Chairman of OSspray Ltd, an emerging dental company, and he is also a non-executive director of Phase4 Ventures, an adviser to the MTI/University of Manchester Premier Fund and to several emerging life science and medical technology companies in the UK and internationally.
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Mark Docherty BEng ACA, Non-executive DirectorMark Docherty was appointed to the Board in March 2003. He is a chartered accountant and holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Sheffield University. He was a founding director of Merlin Biosciences Limited (now Excalibur Fund Managers Limited) and was actively involved in the structuring and financing of many of the Merlin portfolio companies. Previously, he was a Manager in the Corporate Finance Group of Arthur Andersen. He is also a non-executive director of CBT Development Limited and Pantherix Limited. |
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Dr Paul Harper BSc Ph.D., Non-executive DirectorDr Paul Harper was appointed to the Board in August 2005. He is a graduate of Leeds University (Microbiology/Virology). He initially pursued a career in drug discovery and development with Glaxo Group Research as Head of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Johnson & Johnson Limited as Director of Research & Development and with Unipath plc. This was followed by work in a number of start-up companies and SMEs as Chief Executive Officer or adviser. These included, as CEO, preparing Cambridge Antibody Technology PLC for flotation on the London Stock Exchange and founding Provensis Limited to develop a drug device product. Currently Chairman of Angel Biotechnology plc, Physiomics plc, Sareum Holdings plc and three other private biotechnology/devices businesses.
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Professor Trevor Jones CBE Ph.D. DSc FKC FPS FRSC Hon FRCP FBPharmcolS, Non-executive DirectorProfessor Trevor Jones was Chairman of the ReNeuron Group from February 1999 to August 2011. He was formerly Director General of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), and was, until 1994, Research & Development Director at Wellcome plc. He has been awarded honorary doctorates and Gold Medals from six universities; he has fellowships from Kings College London, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the British Pharmacological Society, the Royal College of Physicians and its Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is a founder member of the Geneva-based public/private partnership, the Medicines for Malaria Venture and in 2004 he was appointed to the World Health Organisation Commission on Innovation and Public Health Organisation on Intellectual Property Rights Health. He was for 12 years a member of The UK Government regulatory agency, The Medicines Commission. He sits on the Boards of a number of life science companies including Allergan, Inc. and Sigma-Tau S.p.A.
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