Leadership
Isogenica is led by a management team and board of directors that bring substantial scientific, commercial, financial, legal and business administration experience and expertise to the company
Management
Kevin FitzGerald PhD MBA, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kevin FitzGerald has substantial experience of the science and commercial exploitation
of drug discovery technologies. Kevin has served as Isogenica's CEO and a main board member
of the company since its inception in 2000. During this time, Kevin has completed corporate
agreements with ten companies (including Amgen, AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson)
and secured over $7.5m of equity finance. Prior to establishing Isogenica, Kevin was a member of
the senior management team at Actinova Ltd., having previously spent seven years at Cambridge Antibody
Technology Ltd. where he was among the founding group of scientists. Kevin studied for his Ph.D. in the
laboratory of Sir Greg Winter FRS at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge and for his MBA
at Aston Business School (awarded with distinction), following receipt of a Sainsbury Management
Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, London.
Board of Directors
Dr renny Leach, Non-executive Director
Renny is Executive Chairman of a clinical research consultancy company working with a number of public
and venture capital funded companies developing platform technologies and new clinical treatments for
common conditions including cancer. He is a Director of the Phase I resourcing company – iResearch -
and is currently a non-executive director of several life science companies as well as one of the top
performing NHS Foundation Trusts in England known for its pioneering work in maxillofacial and
reconstructive surgery, orthodontics, head and neck cancer and burns. Renny is a Trustee of Lord
Snowdon’s Award Scheme for disabled students and clinical research advisor to the charity SPARKS.
He was previously CEO of a venture capital backed Clinical Research Organisation, Director of Clinical
Research at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust
and has held senior positions with the UK Medical Research Council and the Horsham-based charity
Action Medical Research.
Per Norfeldt, Non-executive Director
Mr Norfeldt is a psychiatrist and holds a senior position at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Boras Hospital, Sweden. He has a background in protein chemistry and has performed research on lipoproteins and atherosclerosis. Since 2001 he has also worked as an independent consultant and biotech analyst.
Jan-Olof Lundin, Non-executive Chairman
Mr. Lundin brings international experience from VBB AB, EKA Chemicals AB, Berol Verkstadskemi
AB (part of the Akzo Nobel group) and, most recently, from Diffchamb AB (publ.), of which Mr Lundin
was founder and managing director. Mr Lundin also sits on the board of Dunross, one of Isogenica’s
major shareholders.
Tomas Leanderson, Non-executive Director
Professor Leanderson has a medical background as well as a PhD in experimental pathology.
He carried out postdoctoral studies at the Basel Institute for Immunology between 1983 and
1986 and was appointed to the Chair of Immunology, Lund University, in 1990. During the last decade
he has collaborated with and consulted for a number of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Professor Leanderson is currently Vice President of Research and Development at Active Biotech AB
(Lund, Sweden).
Niclas Eriksson, Non-executive Director
Mr Eriksson has an MSc in Economics and more than eighteen years of equity and real estate
investment experience. He is a Director of Vasastaden Holding AB and represents one of Isogenica's
major shareholders.
Kevin FitzGerald, Chief Executive Officer
Anthony Nixon, Company Secretary
Anthony Nixon, Company Secretary
Anthony brings over twenty years’ senior management experience to Isogenica. After qualifying
as a lawyer in 1979, Anthony held a number of in-house legal positions before his appointment as
Vice President Operations and Legal Affairs and Company Secretary at the newly formed Cambridge
Antibody Technology, where he took the company from start-up to a full listing on the London Stock Exchange.
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