HealthTech SIG Champions
Peter Ferguson
I combine a passion for business development and technology delivery to identify and drive innovation.
Passionate technology leader experienced in building strong partner alliances, deep customer engagements, operating at the front of the technology curve, creating opportunities for market expansion, and identifying adjacent areas of growth. Expert in crafting strategy and engaging engineering team members & stakeholders to operationalise SW strategy for driving revenue growth. Based in Cambridge, UK, I have been responsible for driving health strategy in Medical Sensors, Connected Virtual Systems and Edge AI in Genomics. I combine an understanding of the technology with healthcare sector knowledge to broker new technology solutions and strategic partnerships that leads to commercial benefit.
Michael Morgan-Curran
Michael has a successful track-record in ethical pharmaceuticals, medical technologies and digital therapeutics. Working with some of the world’s best-known pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, telecoms and research organisations across EMEA, US and Latam, he has built and led teams accountable for market intelligence, strategy, marketing and commercialisation, product design, regulation and market authorisation, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial development, clinical effectiveness and health economics. As CEO of start-up Asclepius MedTech Ltd; he and his team are building a platform for use in pre- and post-operative surgical assessment to support clinicians and surgical teams ameliorate shared decision-making and stratify patient care.
Daniel Nickalls
Daniel is a TTP project leader focussed on decentralized healthcare solutions including the detection and treatment of chronic conditions at home. These projects cover the entire development lifecycle, from early-stage ideation and opportunity validation, through proof-of-concept development, to regulated device development for large-scale manufacture. Daniel particularly enjoys combining engineering insights, rigorous human-centred design and thorough business case validation to realise effective solutions.
Mick Withers
Involved in Technology consulting around Cambridge for the last 34 years, Previous roles include Managing Director at Sagentia, as well as a couple of stints at TTP, and 5 years helping TeraView transition from a startup to a product company. Now I am charged with helping Plextek diversify its service offering into the Commercial (i.e. non-defence) space.