Alistair Macdonald
Chairman
Alistair is a seasoned pharma executive with more than 25 years of experience in the industry, across manufacturing, consultancy, business and corporate development, data management and clinical operations. Until April 2022 Alistair was CEO of leading, integrated CRO Syneos Health Inc. a role which he held for 6 years. Syneos was the result of a combination of inVentiv Health and INC Research in 2017, of which Alistair was CEO. Alistair led the merger that formed Syneos, which brought together approximately 24,000 employees serving customers in 110 countries with innovative, end-to-end solutions to accelerate their clinical development and commercialisation timelines. Prior to becoming CEO of INC Research, Alistair led multiple functions including Global Business Development and Marketing, Alliances Development and Delivery, Global Oncology, and Clinical Development Services.
Alistair has served as Chair of ACRO, the Association of Clinical Research Organisations, having been on its board for approximately seven years, and is Board Member of the Medicines Discovery Catapult.
Alistair received his Masters degree from Cranfield University, and Batchelors degree from Plymouth University.
Martin Gouldstone
Chief Executive Officer
Martin brings 30 years corporate finance and business development experience in the CRO, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors to his role as CEO at Oncimmune. Most recently, Martin was a Global SVP Business Development at Owkin, where he managed all of the commercial teams in the USA and Europe and led new strategic research partnerships. Over the last few years, Martin was Chief Business Officer at Sensyne Health where he helped to drive growth with particular focus on expanding reach in the US market and Pharmaceutical sector; Global SVP at Syneos One and Head of Capital Solutions for Syneos Healthcare where he developed and led Capital Solutions service; Chief Business Officer at BenevolentAI where he was responsible for all commercial activities. He was previously a Partner at Results Healthcare, where he co-led the healthcare practice;Head of Lifesciences in the UK for BDO, the Lead for the M&A process in Europe for Quintiles, and Business Development and Licensing Lead at Confirmant, Pharmacopeia, Sareum. He has extensive experience buying and selling multi-billion dollar deals across Europe and the US, architecting end to end portfolio out-sourcing deals, and negotiating multi-year research partnerships. Currently, Martin is a Non-Executive Board Director for Open Orphan Plc and sits on the Board of Trustees of Orthopaedic Research UK. He holds a BSc in Genetics and has completed a range of post graduate management courses.
John Goold
Independent Non-Executive Director
John qualified as a chartered accountant in London with Touche Ross in 1996, before a 25-year career in the City raising growth capital and advising small- and mid-cap companies. John initially started out in corporate finance, before moving into equity sales and corporate broking where he spent most of his career. John has helped to raise over £5bn for his clients, much of which was while he was Chief Executive of Zeus Capital for over ten years. John has recently become Chief Executive Officer of Kelso Group Holdings plc, which is listed on the Main Market Standard Segment of the London Stock Exchange.
Dr Sally Waterman
Senior Independent Non Executive Director
Sally has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior executive and director in multiple early stage biopharmaceutical companies and service providers with roles leading R&D, operations and corporate development. She has developed and implementing strategies for growth and been involved in multiple M&A transactions and IPOs. In her R&D roles Sally has led in-house and virtual teams developing small molecules and biologics for a wide range of indications. She has worked closely with numerous contract research and development organisations spanning all aspects of drug development from lead selection to clinical trials. Sally’s previous roles include R&D Director at KS Biomedix and Protherics and, more recently, Chief Operating Officer at Abzena and Medherant. She is currently a non-executive director and chair of Magnitude Biosciences, a specialist CRO which used the nematode worm C.elegans to rapidly screen compounds for their impact on longevity and diseases of ageing, and a non-executive director of Cumulus Oncology, an oncology company creator.
Dr Annalisa Jenkins
Non Executive Director
Dr Annalisa Jenkins, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P. is a biopharma thought leader with over 25 years of industry experience.
Dr Jenkins has extensive recent experience in building and financing biotech companies pursuing cures for the most challenging rare diseases to address important medical issues globally. She has consistently built and led teams advancing programs from scientific research through clinical development, regulatory approval, and into healthcare systems globally. In addition, she is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, particularly for women in science.
Dr Jenkins served as president and CEO of Dimension Therapeutics, a leading gene therapy company that she took public on the NASDAQ and subsequently sold to Ultragenyx. Prior leadership roles have included the head of global research and development and executive vice president global development and medical at Merck Serono, and several senior positions at Bristol Myers-Squibb over 15 years – including serving as senior vice president and head of global medical affairs.
Earlier in her career, Dr Jenkins was a medical officer in the British Royal Navy during the Gulf Conflict, achieving the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander.
In addition to Oncimmune, Dr Jenkins is a board member of several growing companies, including AVROBIO, COMPASS Pathways, AOBiome, AgeX, ADOR Diagnostics, MedCity, DMNoMore, Conduit Connect, Affimed, Genomics England, Cocoon Biotech Inc. (Non-Executive Chair), and Kuur Therapeutics (Non-Executive Chair).
She also is a committee member of the Science Board to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which advises FDA leadership on complex scientific and technical issues, board member at Faster Cures a centre of The Milken Institute and Chair of The Court The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.