Senior Management Team

Brian Graves joined the Group in 2001 as head of the Engineering Technology Transfer team. Brian has 20 years’ experience in business development, product development and marketing in the engineering industry and previously worked for John Crane Limited, a division of Smiths Group plc.

Tony Hickson joined the Group in early 2002 and is head of the Technology Transfer team. Tony has 16 years of commercial experience in bioscience companies including Wellcome, Murex Biotech, Abbott Laboratories and Kalibrant Limited.

John Holden joined the Group in 2007. He spent the first six years of his career as a corporate financier in the City. Following an MBA he spent eight years with venture capital house 3i, latterly as an Investment Director with the UK Technology Group in London. Most recently he was a Director and Joint Head of the UK Ventures team at ANGLE plc with responsibility for setting up and developing early stage technology based companies.

Simon Kerr joined the Group in September 2008. Having worked initially in marketing and business development roles in Beecham Pharmaceuticals and Wellcome plc, Simon moved into the biotechnology sector during the mid-90s. He has extensive experience of emerging bioscience businesses, has held board-level positions in four unlisted companies and has led over 25 licensing, financing and M&A transactions. He was most recently Commercial Director of CeNeS Pharmaceuticals plc until its acquisition by Paion AG in June 2008.

Jon Page worked for PwC & NatWest Bank, initially in their internal consultancy divisions and later in their e-commerce teams where he developed the strategy for e-payments. He has over 19 years’ experience in the consulting and finance sector and joined the Group in 2001 initially to head the Engineering team. Jon created the New Ventures team in 2004. Jon sits on the board of QuantaSol Limited, one of the Group’s technology companies.