EIR Brochure Final 2 Paperturn - Flipbook - Page 16
NICHOLAS DUGGAN
Partner
Viadynamics
JOANNE HACKETT
Lead
IZY Capital
LAURA FERGUSON
Associate Director
AstraZeneca
KAREN WAI
Business Advisor
KWI Health Advisory
Nicholas is an innovation and
marketing professional with
extensive experience across the
medical technology sector. He is a
Partner at Viadynamics, a leading
innovation and venturing agency.
Nicholas is also a founder and former
CEO of Cellesce, a start-up company
that aims to transform drug
discovery and personalised medicine
in the fight against cancer.
Joanne M. Hackett leads the
Healthcare Practice at IZY Capital
where she works with, incubates and
grows the next generation of world
leading innovators. Prior to joining
IZY, Joanne was the Chief
Commercial Officer at Genomics
England, where she was responsible
for building and commercialising the
Trusted Research Environment.
Laura works in the Enabling
Platform Technologies team of
the Business Development and
Licensing team group for AZ R&D.
Her role involves facilitating
external alliances and building
relationships between AZ and the
wider UK life science ecosystem.
Laura works extensively with
start-up incubators and
accelerators, mentoring of startup companies.
Dr Wai obtained her primary medical
degree from Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland, and subsequently obtained
an MBA specialising in Health
Services Management from
University College Dublin. She is a
proven Medical Business Leader with
over 20 years of expertise in clinical
practice and the pharmaceutical &
Medtech industry.
Nicholas can advise on:
Defining and building the
commercial opportunity.
Market validation and
industry engagement.
Business plan preparation.
Career development for
early career researchers.
Joanne is available to have
non-confidential discussions
and offer advice on:
Market need and appetite
for innovations.
Routes to progress
translational projects.
Career development for
early career researchers.
Laura is available to have nonconfidential discussions and
offer advice on:
Start-up financing options.
Partnering with big
pharma.
Career development for
early career researchers.
Karen can advise on:
Fundraising.
Business Plan - market sizing,
go-to-market strategy, value
chain.
Clinical Strategy.
Clinical trial operations.
Asia-Pacific MedTech.