Our Leaders
Executive Team
Christopher Pearce
Christopher Pearce has built the Group since inception and has been responsible for the formulation and implementation of strategy, collaborative and licensing agreements, and intellectual property. He was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Fitness First plc, the international fitness chain.
Richard Dennis
Richard Dennis joined the group in April 2017. He has a commercial background spanning over 30 years in the global life sciences research sector. Throughout his career he has held positions based in both UK and US managing international sales teams. In 1991, he joined Oxford Glycosciences, a VC backed company based in Abingdon UK and was responsible for commercializing their novel glycoprotein detection systems globally. In 1996, he moved to NASDAQ listed Molecular Devices as the European and Middle East as Director of Sales, selling their range of both microplate readers and automated protein based drug discovery platforms largely to the pharma sector. He was the first EU based employee of Meso Scale Discovery (MSD) and set up and managed their direct selling organization in Europe and Asia/Pacific from 2001; MSD introduced a novel ELISA based technology into the sector . Before joining Proteome Sciences he had a similar role for four years at Quanterix Corporation, a Boston based company commercializing high sensitivity protein detection platforms
Non-Executive Directors
Martin Diggle
Mr. Diggle has worked in finance for over 30 years. He was a director and partner of UBS/Brunswick in Russia until 2003, after which he joined Vulpes Investment Management, where he is currently a director and partner. He is an experienced specialist investor in life sciences and manages the Vulpes Life Sciences Fund, the registered holder of 24.2% of Proteome Sciences' ordinary share capital.
Dr Ian Pike
Ian Pike has over 20 years’ experience working in the diagnostics and biotechnology sectors. Having gained a PhD in Medical Microbiology, he joined Welcome Diagnostics as a research group leader and spent 8 years working on new diagnostic assays, particularly for hepatitis. In December 1999, he joined the Technology Transfer Office of the UK Medical Research Council with responsibility for patents and commercialization of a wide portfolio of technologies related to the biomedical sector. Most recently, Ian worked for Cancer Research Ventures managing intellectual property and performing business development activities in Europe and the USA.
Helen Spice
Helen Spice had a successful accountancy career at KPMG where she was appointed CFO of KPMG
International from 2008 to 2015. She is currently a non-executive director at Barts Health NHS Trust
and recently retired from Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where her role included
Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee. She brings strong strategic, financial and accounting
experience to the Company.
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