Sinéad McCormack
Sinéad is a qualified accountant with 23 years of experience, holding senior positions in financial services and higher education with organisations including Barclays, Bank of England and the University of Manchester. Having started her career with Aspect Capital, AIG and Barclays, Sinéad then joined the Bank of England as Senior Manager of Financial of Control […]
Clare Atherton
Clare brings a plethora of HR experience gained throughout her career in the rail, retail, FMCG, science and technology sectors to her role as Chief People Officer at Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC). Having started her career within the Rail sector, Clare has held senior positions in private and public sector organisations – most recently with […]
Sue Wallcraft
Sue is a qualified English solicitor and has over 25 years’ experience of advising life sciences companies and charities. Most recently Sue was General Counsel and Company secretary at Vernalis plc, having previously held the same positions at the Wellcome Trust. Sue’s career also includes holding the position of Assistant General Counsel for Pfizer’s primary […]
Alistair Macdonald
Alistair is Chief Executive Officer at Syneos Health and has over 20 years experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He currently serves as the Chair of the Association of Clinical Research Organisations. Prior to Syneos Health, he served as CEO of INC Research since 2016, leading global operations, driving the company’s global expansion, overall project delivery […]
Graham Clarke
Graham holds a number of non-executive positions including: Non-Executive member of the Department of Health and Social Care (“DHSC”), sitting on its Audit & Risk Committee. Non-Executive Director of the NHS Health Research Authority (“HRA”), the regulator of human research in England and Wales. Chairman of the board at Herts Urgent Care, a Social Enterprise […]
Lynne Robb
Lynne began her career as a Chartered Accountant when she trained with Arthur Andersen & Co in London and Leeds. She then moved into the corporate world, working for many years with Tate & Lyle, where she had several Financial leadership roles. She also worked on major integrations and mergers, which led her to join […]
Dr Robin Brown
Robin was appointed Chairman of the Medicines Discovery Catapult in July 2018. Most recently he was the Chief Executive Officer of KWS BioTest, a specialist immunology-based contract research organisation. In January 2018 KWS was acquired by Charles River Laboratories. Immediately before joining KWS, Robin spent eight years as a venture partner at Advent Healthcare Ventures […]
Professor Chris Reilly
Chris is an expert on the discovery and early clinical development of new medicines. He was formerly Global Vice President and Head of Project Evaluation at AstraZeneca (AZ) where he made investment recommendations on all lead identification and optimisation projects across all research areas. Chris was also responsible for developing AZ’s research strategy and was […]
Professor Sir Alex Markham
Sir Alex is Professor of Medicine and Director of the MRC Medical Bioinformatics Centre at the University of Leeds. He also works in MRC Centres for Hyperpolarised MRI Imaging and Single-Cell Functional Genomics, as well as an EPSRC Programme on Microfluidic Constructed Architectures for Therapeutic Delivery, in Leeds. Sir Alex has made many contributions to biomedical research. He initially obtained his […]