Board of
directors
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Dr Steven Powell
Chair
Dr Powell graduated in microbiology from the University of Wales and was awarded a PhD from the University of Aberdeen. He has nearly forty years of operational and investment experience in pharmaceutical and healthcare companies in the UK, USA and Scandinavia. He has held six CEO roles, three in public companies. His current roles include several advisory roles, Executive Director of Glen Cova Scientific Limited and Director of SerenOx Limited. In 2003, he joined Gilde Healthcare, a pan-European life sciences investment fund, as a partner and remained an adviser to the fund until 2016.
Dr Matthew Stork
Chief Executive Officer
Dr Stork has over twenty-five years’ experience of managing companies in the med tech sector and expertise in AI, IT, diagnostics, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals. Before becoming CEO of Cambridge Cognition in 2019, he held managing director and divisional leadership roles within GE Healthcare Digital, InHealth Group, ArjoHuntleigh, Canon Medical Systems (formerly Toshiba) and Smith & Nephew. He has a degree in pharmacy from the University of Bath, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine from King’s College London, and an MBA from London Business School.
Stephen Symonds
Chief Financial Officer
Mr Symonds is an experienced finance professional and was previously the Chief Financial Officer of Envigo, a private equity backed provider of pre-clinical services for the pharmaceutical industry, where he spent eight years. Prior to that, he spent a decade with KPMG, working on a wide-ranging portfolio of clients. Earlier in his career, he built a broad experience in a variety of small to medium-size accounting companies and as the finance lead in a family-owned business. He is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Debra Leeves
Non-Executive Director
Ms Leeves is currently CEO of Vertual, the leading provider of virtual and augmented reality training simulation systems in radiotherapy. She has over 25 years of experience in the medical technology and biotechnology industries, and has previously been COO of Beckley Canopy Therapeutics, CEO of Physeon and also held senior roles with companies such as Rex Bionics, Avita Medical, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, GE Healthcare and Pfizer.
Richard Bungay
Non-Executive Director
Mr Bungay has over 25 years’ experience in corporate roles with R&D-based companies within the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector, including as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of both public and private companies, with a particular focus on financing, investor relations and business development. A chartered accountant, Mr Bungay is currently CEO of Imophoron Limited, a private company developing treatments for infectious diseases. Prior to this, Mr Bungay was CFO then CEO of Diurnal Group plc, the AIM quoted specialty pharmaceutical company targeting patient needs in chronic endocrine diseases, where he led the sale of the company to Neurocrine Biosciences. Prior to that, Mr Bungay held CFO and Chief Operating Officer roles at Mereo BioPharma Group plc as well as being CFO of Glide Technologies and Verona Pharma plc.
Stuart Gall
Non-Executive Director
Mr Gall is currently CEO of Intelligent Ultrasound, an AIM-listed medical imaging company providing one of the world’s leading ‘classroom to clinic’ ultrasound technologies. Previous appointments include joint founder and executive director of Fusion IP plc, an AIM listed university IP commercialisation company, before its purchase by IP Group plc for £103 million in 2014. He has over 30 years’ experience in both small company start-ups and public companies and previously worked at British Airways plc, The Promotions Partnership Limited, Anvil Limited and Toad plc (now Journeo plc).
Nick Rodgers
Non-Executive Director
Mr Rodgers is currently Chair of SEHTA, one of the largest health technology membership and networking organisations in the UK supporting businesses in the health technology sector. Until 2023 he was Chair of Destiny Pharma plc, a developer of novel anti-infective products and chair of ZPN Energy Limited, a developer of battery storage technologies and systems for the electric vehicle market. Previously, until 2016, he was chairman of Oxford BioMedica plc, a pioneer of gene and cell therapy and a leader in lentiviral vector research, development and bioprocessing.
