For those that were unable to attend on Optimum’s 14th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference, or indeed would like a recap of what was shared on the day, we have been releasing the top takeaways from the panels! Our first panel of the day, chaired by Stephen Hansen, from BioCentury, saw a panel of blue chip […]
Dan Mahony and Gareth Powell are long time, successful life sciences and healthcare investors. They are luminaries of the UK and European healthcare ecosystem, who have been investing since the late 1990s and initially worked together at Polar Capital where together they set up the biotech and healthcare investment funds. Gareth is still Head of […]
14 November 2022 – Optimum Strategic Communications (“Optimum”), the specialist life sciences communications consultancy, today announced that it has hired Richard Staines, the experienced, specialist pharma and biotech journalist, to join as a permanent member of its team. Staines has joined Optimum as an Account Director with immediate effect and will be advising clients across its […]
Financing growth: Walking the tightrope InsightIn the context of the particularly difficult public markets we have seen recently, Hannah Kuchler, Global Pharmaceuticals Correspondent at the Financial Times, chaired a panel of experts exploring what sources of capital are currently available to fund innovation and the development of new drugs, and what is needed to access […]
We were proud to host a fantastic panel chaired by BioCentury’s European Editor Stephen Hansen with Soren Moller, Managing Partner of Novo Seeds; Karin Kleinhans, Partner of MRL Ventures Fund; Hakan Goker, Managing Director of M Ventures; Roel Bulthuis, Managing Partner at Inkef. This panel of Venture Capital (VC) investors discussed the strength of private […]
