Simon then became the CEO of the embryonic start-up company, DNA Research Innovations Ltd (‘DRI’), growing the company for four years which was acquired by the Invitrogen Corporation Inc for $65 million in 2004. After a period with Invitrogen Simon joined Fusion Antibodies in 2006 as the CEO and in 2011 moved to his current Chairman role. During that period he was also the Executive Chairman of Scottish based Lab 901 where he completed several rounds of funding and sold the business in 2011 to Agilent Technologies Inc. He is also currently the CEO of the VC backed diagnostic Company Biofortuna Ltd.

Adrian Kinkaid has over twenty-five years’ experience working in the bioscience sector. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry from University of Southampton and has expertise in development and commercialisation of all the main classes of affinity reagents. He joined Fusion Antibodies as CEO in August 2022.

Adrian’s previous experience has included senior management positions in drug discovery, reagent technology and diagnostics. He is passionate about harnessing biotechnology to create better drugs and diagnostics in order to improve health and wellbeing on a global scale.

Richard Buick has more than 19 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. After graduating with a 1st Class Honours degree in Genetics, he spent 4 years at Randox Laboratories, discovering novel antibodies for diagnostics from synthetic libraries. Richard joined Fusion Antibodies in 2002, where he was responsible for overseeing the Company’s Contract Research Services and production of all reagents required for the research and development of internal drug assets. Richard has a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast in Immunology. He joined the Company as a Director and was appointed CTO in 2011, managing all scientific projects and Fusion Antibodies’ patent portfolios. In addition, Richard has, since 2015, been appointed as a legal expert witness in a number of drug patent dispute cases.

Colin Walsh is Chief Executive and founder of Crescent Capital and has been an active venture capital investor in the high-tech sector for the past twenty eight years. He has considerable experience of business strategy and governance issues, mentoring senior management plus the restructuring, growth and development of companies across many sectors. He has served on numerous boards including both as a director and chair of Andor Technology plc, an AIM listed company and Trafficmaster plc, a LSE main market listed company. A former chair of the CBI for Northern Ireland, he joined the Fusion Antibodies as a Director in 2007 as a representative of Crescent Capital. Colin is a member of the Company’s remuneration committee and Chair of the audit committee.

Matthew Baker, PhD has more than 20 years’ experience developing biologics in biotech and pharma companies and is a research expert in B- and T-cell immunology, including drug immunogenicity. He was the Chief Scientific Officer of Abzena until 2016 and previously held a Non-Executive Director role at Oxgene. He is currently CEO of NeoPhore, a private company focused on the discovery and development of novel small molecule therapies to treat cancer through stimulation of the immune system. Matthew brings detailed immunology and virus-based mammalian display knowledge as well as industry and market insight.

Stephen has over 25 years’ experience working in audit & accounting, finance, and operations management within both the public accounting and commercial sectors. Stephen’s previous roles include acting as Chief Financial Officer at Sera Global LP, as well as holding senior finance functions at Cormark Securities Inc and at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP. Stephen is a chartered accountant and is currently a partner at FPM, a Chartered Accountancy practice with offices throughout the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, including Belfast. At FPM, he provides virtual finance function solutions to clients ranging from start-ups to private equity backed multinationals