Upcoming Events
We attend a host of scientific events across the world. Please see below for details of upcoming events.
We attend a host of scientific events across the world. Please see below for details of upcoming events.
Charlie Joined Inivata as Chief Information Officer December 2018. Prior to joining Inivata he led international technology operations for D-Wise, a consulting firm focusing on healthcare and life sciences. Before that he worked for Medsolutions, a billion-dollar healthcare-based decision support organization where he headed IT Excellence & Reliability.
Charlie has also served as a Chief Operations Officer at Emergisoft, a healthcare-based electronic medical records management company where he delivered systems to enterprise clients and successfully launched electronic medical records for maritime. Charlie is currently concluding his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership. He attended Northwestern University to obtain a Master of Science (Medical Informatics). His undergrad is in Business Administration.
Nitzan is one of Inivata’s founders and its Chief Scientific Officer. He is a world-leader in circulating tumor DNA research and since 2009 leads a research group at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, part of the University of Cambridge. His work combines new molecular and genomics approaches to develop new diagnostic tools and applications. Previously he was head of Computational Biology at Rosetta Genomics, where he led development of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. He originally trained in Physics, and specialized in quantitative molecular biology, obtaining a PhD in Systems Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Nitzan authored dozens of patents and research articles on methods for molecular diagnostics and cell-free DNA analysis. For his contributions, he was awarded the CRUK Future Leaders in Cancer Research prize, the British Association for Cancer Research Translational Research Award, and the Academy of Medical Sciences Foulkes Medal.
Stacy brings over 25 years of US healthcare commercial experience to Inivata. Joining the team as a consultant in early 2018, Stacy quickly leveraged her healthcare sales, marketing, market access and operations experience to build and accelerate the commercialization strategy for InVisionFirst®-Lung. Stacy was appointed Chief Commercial Officer effective September 1, 2018. Prior to joining Inivata, Stacy held sales, marketing, market access and general management executive roles leading teams in global and US life science companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi. Throughout her career Stacy was recognized with President’s Club, Pinnacle and TWIN awards for outstanding business results, mentorship and patient advocacy. Stacy earned her MBA in Finance from Rutgers University and her BBA in Marketing from the University of Georgia. Stacy is an Emeritus Member of the Terry College of Business Alumni Board at the University of Georgia, Board Member of Our Brain Bank, and holds membership in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Women’s Business Leadership, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. She was appointed as a Peer Ambassador at Emory Winship Cancer Center in 2018.
Mr. VanOort has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of NeoGenomics since October 28, 2009. For seven months prior to October 2009, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Executive Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining NeoGenomics, Mr. VanOort was a General Partner with a Private Equity Firm, and a Founding Managing Partner of a Venture Capital Firm. From 1982 through 1999, Mr. VanOort served in various positions at Corning, Inc. and at its spin-off company, Quest Diagnostics, Inc. During the period from 1995 through 1999, he served as the Senior Vice President Operations for Quest Diagnostics, Inc. which was then a $1.5 billion newly formed NYSE traded Company. During the period of 1989 to 1995, he held senior executive positions at Corning Life Sciences, Inc. including Executive Vice President. Corning Life Sciences, Inc. had revenues of approximately $2 billion and was spun-off in a public transaction to create both Quest Diagnostics, Inc. and Covance, Inc. From 1982 to 1989, Mr. VanOort served in various executive positions at Corning Inc., including Director of Mergers & Acquisitions.
Mr. VanOort currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of several privately-held companies, and is a principal owner of a privately-held retail hardware store chain. Mr. VanOort is a graduate of Bentley University.
Jamie leads the global clinical laboratory operations at Inivata. She was engaged as a consultant in March 2017 and joined the team on a full-time basis in Sept 2017. She has extensive expertise in sequencing and molecular systematics, including population genetics.
During her 15 years in clinical diagnostics, Jamie has developed and validated numerous high complexity sequencing assays in the clinical areas of Oncology, Infectious Disease and Molecular Genetics and has introduced custom, industrial-grade automation to high complexity, sequencing assays.
She has spent more than 10 years overseeing development and validation of Next Generation Sequencing Assays for both clinical diagnostics and clinical trials and has special interest in applying advanced sequencing technologies (NGS) to improve personalized healthcare. Jamie received her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Oregon State University and completed postdoctoral training in population genetics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Tim joined Inivata as CFO in July 2016 and manages finance, administration and legal activities. Prior to joining Inivata he formulated and implemented financial controls and process improvements supporting business growth and expansion most recently at Baxano Surgical and Talecris Biotherapeutics. His background in technology, life sciences, and distribution environments is particularly relevant as Inivata moves forward towards commercialization.
While at Talecris, Tim managed the Initial Public Offering (IPO) at a $3.28 billion valuation and has managed merger and acquisition transactions. Tim also has operational business experience across critical issues including budgeting, investor relations, systems implementation, and risk management. Tim has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Appalachian State University and is a CPA, having spent the first 15 years of his career with PwC.
Clive joined the leadership team in May 2016 and became CEO in July 2018. Clive worked for over a decade in various key roles at AstraZeneca, where he oversaw R&D and medical affairs projects and groups on a global scale, was involved in R&D strategy, investor relations, and led the major transformation of AstraZeneca’s UK strategic R&D sites and global HQ.
He has extensive experience across all phases of drug development including seven marketed or close-to-market oncology products. Most recently Clive founded and lead Health Innovation Manchester, to develop an innovation ecosystem involving the decentralisation of £6bn per annum of health and social care services. He is also a non-executive director of Wheatsheaf investments and the InnovateUK Medicines Discovery Catapult.
Clive is accredited as a Pharmaceutical Medicine specialist by the UK Royal College of Physicians, has an Executive MBA and trained as a physician at the University of Manchester.
Jacqui Watson joined Inivata as Chief People Officer in July 2019 and brings an extensive background of working internationally as an HR Director, People Developer, and consultant within various organizations at a senior level. She has over 20 years’ experience of leading people and business transformation across different sectors including pharma, IT and hospitality.
Throughout her career Jacqui has focussed on inspiring individuals and teams to reach their full potential and in her current role she is responsible for the alignment of our organisational human resource processes to help drive our business success. She was most recently consulting for various companies, where her primary focus was to identify and develop a sustainable supply of leadership and talent from within these organizations.
Jacqui’s focus since joining Inivata has been to provide continued support for the transformation and growth of our organization and culture to achieve our strategic priority of being a ‘great place to work’.
Robert joined Cambridge Innovation Capital as Investment Director in January 2014. After seven years working in hospital medicine, Robert joined the pharma industry in 1996 working in development and regulatory roles at Sanofi, the MHRA and Roche where he led the clinical team for the regulatory approval of Valcyte®.
Ten years ago, Robert joined the Cambridge based company Arakis and worked as Medical Director until its £106m sale to Sosei Inc. Since that acquisition, Robert has been involved in a number of start-up companies including founding the malaria-focused company Treague, being founding CEO of the University of Copenhagen spin-out Avilex Pharma and being part of the founding management team of KalVista which is developing the first plasma kallikrein inhibitor for diabetic macular edema in collaboration with its scientific co-founders from Harvard Medical School.
Robert qualified in medicine from University College London, he is a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and has an MBA from London Business School and an M.Phil in Biostatistics from the University of Cambridge.
Craig is a Partner in IP Group’s Life Science investment team. He started his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1998 and worked in new product development for Glaxo Wellcome, followed by a series of business development roles in UK biotech. He was then part of the founding management team of an in vitro diagnostics company before moving into venture capital investment with Inventages, a life science focused VC fund. He subsequently worked for Fusion IP plc, a specialist investor in university spin-out companies, before joining IP Group in 2014.
Craig has a first-class honours degree in Pharmacy from Cardiff University and a PhD from the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. He also holds an MBA with Distinction from the University of Warwick where he was awarded a Sainsbury Management Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Dr Wrighton-Smith is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Oxford Immunotec Glob al PLC, a high-growth global diagnostics company focussing on monitoring immune-regulated conditions.
Peter has led Oxford Immunotec from the foundation stages, through product development to regulatory approval in over 50 countries, and subsequent worldwide commercialisation via both a kit and a CLIA lab model. Over that time, Oxford Immunotec has raised five rounds of venture funding prior to an IPO on NASDAQ in 2013. Dr Wrighton-Smith has a Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management, and a Doctorate in Medical Engineering, both from University of Oxford.
Jeanne joined Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc as Vice President, Venture Investments, in February 2013.
She is based in London, UK at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Centre. Jeanne’s responsibilities are focused on investing in and managing portfolio investments in the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology areas in Europe.
Jeanne has over 25 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in management roles across R&D, Commercial and Business Development. She spent 11 years in Licensing and Acquisition, most recently as Global Head of Scientific Licensing for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical business, having joined the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in 2005 from the Business Development group at GSK. In 2009, Jeanne became VP Alliance Management and Board Director at Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, working with Pfizer and Elan on immunotherapies targeting beta amyloid for Alzheimer’s disease.
Jeanne received her medical degree from University College Dublin. She also holds diplomas in Child Health (NUI) and in Finance and Accounting (ACCA). She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland (RAMI). She has served as the sole pharmaceutical industry representative on two Irish government taskforces seeking to enhance the commercialization of IP from Irish academic centres. She is a visiting lecturer on the MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine curriculum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Nitzan is one of Inivata’s founders and its Chief Scientific Officer. He is a world-leader in circulating tumor DNA research and since 2009 leads a research group at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, part of the University of Cambridge. His work combines new molecular and genomics approaches to develop new diagnostic tools and applications. Previously he was head of Computational Biology at Rosetta Genomics, where he led development of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. He originally trained in Physics, and specialized in quantitative molecular biology, obtaining a PhD in Systems Biology from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Nitzan authored dozens of patents and research articles on methods for molecular diagnostics and cell-free DNA analysis. For his contributions, he was awarded the CRUK Future Leaders in Cancer Research prize, the British Association for Cancer Research Translational Research Award, and the Academy of Medical Sciences Foulkes Medal.
Clive joined the leadership team in May 2016 and became CEO in July 2018. Clive worked for over a decade in various key roles at AstraZeneca, where he oversaw R&D and medical affairs projects and groups on a global scale, was involved in R&D strategy, investor relations, and led the major transformation of AstraZeneca’s UK strategic R&D sites and global HQ.
He has extensive experience across all phases of drug development including seven marketed or close-to-market oncology products. Most recently Clive founded and lead Health Innovation Manchester, to develop an innovation ecosystem involving the decentralisation of £6bn per annum of health and social care services. He is also a non-executive director of Wheatsheaf investments and the InnovateUK Medicines Discovery Catapult.
Clive is accredited as a Pharmaceutical Medicine specialist by the UK Royal College of Physicians, has an Executive MBA and trained as a physician at the University of Manchester.
Jeff joined Inivata after a long and successful career in the bio/pharmaceutical industry most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Archimedes Pharma Ltd.
His experience combines strong corporate leadership allied to an extensive background in medical/clinical research with multinational organisations. He brings extensive commercial and drug development experience in oncology and other therapeutic areas.
Jeff has been recognised for his work, receiving the Joseph F. Buckley Memorial Award from the American Cancer Society for commitment to cancer control and involvement in the oncology pharmaceutical field. He has also been a Collaborating Partner in the President’s National Dialogue on Cancer and acted as Chairman of the Board of Directors to the National Childhood Cancer Foundation in the United States.
Jeff received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from Seton Hall University and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Temple University.
