Peter’s early career was spent in the pharmaceutical industry, initially in engineering and technical operations and then sales and marketing. He was a product manager in UK pharma industry before moving to become managing director of a Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) subsidiary in Scandinavia. In 1987, Peter became a founder Director of Beaufort Group Limited, a business services company which provided advice and support to pharmaceutical companies and the newly privatised utilities, which was admitted to AIM in 1996. Peter stepped down from Beaufort in 1998 to focus on a portfolio of consulting and investment opportunities. From 2007 until 2015, Peter was a non-executive director of Oncimmune Limited, a cancer diagnostics company spin out from Nottingham University which floated on AIM in 2016. Peter has advised many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Bayer, GSK, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer and Roche as well as Quintiles, the world’s largest clinical research organisation. He has a BSc from Nottingham University and an MBA from London Business School. While Peter is a shareholder and option holder in the Company and has served on the Board for some years, based on his extensive experience, specialised industry knowledge and personal qualities, the Board consider him to be independent. Peter’s engagement with the Company commenced on 3 April 2000.

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