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Meet the Board

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• Gareth Lloyd-Jones - Chairman

  

  Prior to retiring in 2003, after 32 years of active corporate life, Professor Gareth Lloyd-Jones held senior roles within the healthcare industry – with 21 years in the Pharmaceutical sector with Reckitt and Colman and 12 years in the Medical Device sector at Smith & Nephew. He continues to remain in close contact with industry, consulting in the area of Healthcare for a range of organisations.
  
  He is closely associated with two Department of Health sponsored Health Technology initiatives: as steering committee member on Future Product Development Funding Stream 3 within the recently launched i4i programme, and also as steering committee Chair for the Devices for Dignity Health Technology Cooperative pilot initiative.
  
  Gareth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Member of the Institute of Directors and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York.
  
  Gareth is also the non-executive Chair of Medipex Ltd and BITECIC Ltd Boards

• Janet Knowles - Company Secretary

  

  As partner of legal firm Eversheds LLP, which has offices across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Janet works with clients across the healthcare sector, from medical device and pharmaceutical companies to NHS Trusts and universities; supporting them on general business issues such as HR and real estate to more sector specific matters such as intellectual property and clinical trials.

• Sir Andrew Cash OBE

  

  Andrew is Chief Executive of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He joined the NHS as a fast track graduate management trainee and has been a Chief Executive for over 20 years. He has worked at local, regional and national level and has recently completed a secondment at the Department of Health (DoH) as a Director General with responsibility for the development of providers in the NHS. He works part time for the DoH and one of his key roles is to lead on military health matters; a role he fulfils as Co-Chair of the DH/MOD Partnership Board. He is a visiting Professor in Leadership Development at the Universities of York and Sheffield.
  
  Andrew has been Chief Executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the largest foundation trust in England, since its inception in July 2004 and prior to that was the first Chief Executive of the newly merged Sheffield Teaching Hospitals which came into effect in April 2001. Andrew was knighted for services to health care in the 2009 Birthday Honours list.

• Mark Richardson

  

  Vice President of Research and Technology at Smith and Nephew Wound Management in Hull, Mark has over 25 years experience in the Medical Device Sector within S&N and brining Innovative products to Global Markets.

  He is also Chair of the Hull and Humber Healthcare Technologies Group, a cross Business, NHS, University and Public Sector Group aiming to stimulate growth in this Sector in the Sub Region.

• Graeme Hall

  

  Now Managing Director of Brandon Medical, Leeds, Graeme trained as a Chartered Engineer with Ford and Premier Farnell and was previously Deputy Managing Director of Farnell Cayson Ltd. With an MEng in Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Management from Nottingham University, Graeme also has a fellowship in Manufacturing Management from Cranfield University.

• Stephen Owens

  

  Stephen is Managing Director and Chairman of Park House Healthcare, which has grown to become one of the market leaders in the manufacture and distribution of specialist pressure relieving and pressure reducing equipment in the U.K. and worldwide since the company was founded in 1984. Over the past 25 years Stephen has developed the company and introduced a series of innovative products and services into the market place.

• Alan Ashby

  

  As Vice President of Global Concept Development at De-Puy – a Johnson & Johnson company, Leeds, Alan holds 25 patents for a variety of Orthopaedic implant products and instruments.

  Responsible for driving a number of innovative technology initiatives, Alan works with third parties to acquire and develop products to transform the way clinicians provide care. He regularly speaks at events around the world on orthopaedic product development and technology related topics.
  Alan’s career in medical devices has taken him all over Europe working in both Ireland and France.

• Colin Glass

  

  Colin is a Chartered Accountant and a partner in Winburn Glass Norfolk which he helped to found in 1975. He is Chairman of several companies, including GETECH Group PLC, Surgical Innovations Group PLC and Straight PLC which are quoted on AIM. He is also a non-executive director of The Partnership Investment Fund (“PIF”), a £37m fund set up to support SMEs and social achievement in the Objective 2 areas of Yorkshire and The Humber.
  Colin was awarded the West Yorkshire Society of Chartered Accountant’s Star in Practice Award in 2006 for his work with SMEs. In 2007, he was awarded Business Adviser of the Year by the Institute of Directors, Yorkshire and Humber and in 2008, non-executive director of the year by the Institute of Directors, Yorkshire and Humber.
  Through his roles as a co-founder and Board member of Surgical Innovations, he has had considerable exposure to the medical device industry. The experience gained in this area has resulted in his involvement in advising start-up and growing companies in the wider medical field.

• Richard Clark

  

  As the Chief Executive of Medipex Ltd - The NHS Innovation Centre for Yorkshire & Humber- Richard Clark is a chartered engineer with nearly 30 years experience of project management, consulting engineering and technology transfer in environmental and power generation industries. Richard is very familiar with the health care environment that Medipex operates in. Previously he was joint managing director of Medilink, an organisation he helped to create providing technology transfer and market access services to medical technology businesses across Yorkshire. He was also involved from the outset in the establishment of Medipex and helped to write the successful PSRE bid, setting up the company and recruiting all the staff.

• Richard Williams

  

  Richard Williams OBE, FREng, FTSE is Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds leading strategy in knowledge transfer and nnovation. His scientific and engineering skills are in surface phenomena and manufacturing. He has founded several companies based on innovative technical concepts in the environmental, instrumentation and energy sectors. He was a founder of the White Rose Health Innovation Partnership working across regional SMES, Hospitals and Universities with counterparts in New Jersey, USA

• Richard Jones

  

  As Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Sheffield, Richard has a degree and PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and is an experimental polymer physicist who specialises in elucidating the nanoscale structure and properties of polymers and biological macromolecules at interfaces. In his current research, he aims to understand how to exploit the self-assembling properties of polymers to make cheap and efficient plastic electronic devices, and how to use shape change in macromolecules to create entirely synthetic molecular motors, valves and other components of a polymer-based soft nanotechnology.
  
  Richard Jones is the co-author of a report published by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, The Social and Economic Challenges of Nanotechnology (2003). He chaired the Nanotechnology Engagement Group, a body set up by UK Government to support the development of best practice in public engagement around nanotechnologies, and to ensure that public engagement feeds into policy and decision-making. He was the Senior Strategic Advisor for Nanotechnology for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2007 to 2009.
  
  He is the author of more than 110 research papers, and three books, the most recent of which is Soft Machines: nanotechnology and life, published by Oxford University Press in 2004.