The Team

Dr David Sarphie (co-founder and director)

Founding investor & director; co-founder of PowderJect and former-CEO of Acrobot, current CEO of Bio Nano Consulting and Seroxo.

David is a bio-nanotechnology entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience in project management, senior management and CEO positions within start-up drug-delivery, diagnostics, medical device and consultancy companies. David was one of the founders of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals, still regarded as one of the UK’s most successful biotech companies. Since then David has led the formation of several successful technology companies.

Dr Chris Johnson (Project Manager)

Dr Chris Johnson is an experienced project manager with
15 years’ project management & product development experience in
medtech; previously responsible for product development at Plasticell

Russell Banks (Chief Financial Officer)

Russell Banks (CFO) has over 30 years of senior financial management
experience, with over 20 years operating at the level of Finance
Director/CFO within the life science sector, including Cephalon Inc.

Nikolaus Huber, DVM, Dr.med.vet., Vet-innovation Advisor

Nikolaus works at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria (Vetmeduni). After graduating from the same university with a specialization in conservation medicine, he worked as a wildlife veterinarian in Alaska and Sweden. After a subsequent stopover at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, he returned to Austria and completed his PhD at the Vetmeduni with a focus on stress physiology. Intending to improve animal health and welfare, he has been conducting research with and around the LCC method on wild, domestic and companion animals for more than a decade.