Alex is Head of Corporate Finance at OSI and a former physician. Alex was a medical student and junior doctor in the Oxford training deanery before transitioning to investment banking. He has over 12 years’ experience in the healthcare and other investment banking sectors, including equity and debt capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions as well as licensing transactions gained at UBS and Lazard. Alex holds a BA in Physiological Sciences and a BM BCh from Oxford University. Oxford Sciences In...
Oct 08, 2020•53 min
For this week's Sunday Session, we have a clip of James on the Virti Human Performance Podcast talking about what he and the team at somX do to build brand for healthtech companies, get their messaging on-point and how they think about content generation to specific audiences in healthcare. Whether you're building your personal brand or your healthtech company's brand, this one is worth a listen! Listen to the full episode on the Virti Human Performance Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/pod...
Oct 04, 2020•10 min
Neelam is MedCity’s CEO, responsible for leading the team and operations, driving the strategy and relationships with key stakeholders and funders. She is also the lead for clinical trials, supporting companies seeking clinical and research expertise and collaborations. Neelam has extensive experience in Pharma, R&D, NIHR service improvement & strategy. MedCity is the cluster organisation for the world-leading health and life sciences sector in London and the Greater South East of Englan...
Oct 01, 2020•48 min
In this week's Sunday Session, James gives you a couple of tips for getting a job in healthtech, outlines a few jobs available at some of the best healthtech organisations and ends with some bonus content from last week's discussion with Lissy Hu, who gives us her top tip for healthtech entrepreneurs. Read this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-007-death-tech-and-awell-health Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Sep 27, 2020•9 min
Lissy Hu is the founder and CEO of Careport and came up with the concept while she was getting her MD and MBA at Harvard. She entered and won a Harvard business plan competition in 2012. That same year, she got additional funding, $3.8 million, through the Techstars Boston accelerator program, allowing her to launch CarePort in 2013. The company built out its software, which patients use to find a post-acute provider and hospitals use to track patient outcomes. In 2016, national healthcare IT co...
Sep 24, 2020•47 min
On this week's Sunday session, James drops a clip from the Scrubbed In podcast. He was on that podcast last week discussing personal branding, healthtech and giving his advice to young medics and entrepreneurs. You can catch the full episode at the link below! Scrubbed In with Dr James Somauroo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24l3QO7zZj6g8pHNnvQcG3?si=7q7fppxbQZSF9xr0AjXIag Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch...
Sep 20, 2020•6 min
This week, James is joined by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, a consultant radiologist by background and now Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a brand-new healthtech-specific VC fund investing pan-Europe into companies building the future. James and Fiona discuss her background through clinical medicine, management consulting, and MBA and now founding her own fund. They also discuss the vision for Crista Galli Ventures and Fiona's passion for diversity in both the healthtech and investing spaces. T...
Sep 16, 2020•41 min
This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in healthcare. James talks about NHSX's AI Lab and its projects, particularly the The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, which, excitingly, just issued £50M to 42 AI projects... Get all the updates you need from the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-005-nhsx-awards-50m-and-theres-a Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Sep 13, 2020•7 min
Nicholas Kelly is the chairman of Axela group, which was set up to deliver on the vision of changing the way people view healthcare by supporting the care lifecycle and making care accessible to all. He has over 12 years experience in social care having set up his first domiciliary care agency in 2006, which has grown to be a corner stone of the Axela group. Nicholas has over 10 years leadership experience working in a tech and health environment having previously had senior involvement with App...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min
This week's Sunday session features some tips for entrepreneurs from Joseph Mossel, CEO of Ibex Medial Analytics, info on an upcoming digital health event and info on Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 a newsletter you can sign up to which summarises what James has been reading and listening to in the healthtech world. It's all you need in a 1 minute read! Get discounted tickets for Digital Primary Care 2020: https://hopin.to/events/digital-primary-care-20?code=d20aa6a5-6c8f-439a-8b0f-893e76abe9da Free sign u...
Sep 06, 2020•8 min
Joseph Mossel is CEO and Co-Founder of Ibex Medical Analytics, a next generation cancer diagnostics startup aiming to reduce diagnostic error and improve patient care. Over his career he served as a software engineer, product manager and in leadership roles in startups, corporates and non-profits, and has taken products from inception to multi-million dollar businesses. He holds a MSc in computer science from Tel Aviv University, and a MSc in environmental science from VU Amsterdam. Ibex Medical...
Sep 03, 2020•46 min
For this week's Sunday Session, James chats to Prof Sultan Mahmud, Director of Innovation, Integration and Research at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. From the humblest of beginnings, 'Sul' as he likes to be known rose the ranks through the NHS via jobs in big pharma and is now involved at the coalface of healthtech, helping his Trust bring in technologies like Zesty (you can hear Lloyd Price, cofounder of Zesty a few episodes ago). Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.so...
Aug 30, 2020•44 min
This week, James is joined by Graeme Cox, cofounder and CEO of emteq labs. Graeme has led multiple startup companies from initiation to exit, acting both as CEO and CTO with a 25-year track record in AI, software development, client engagement, problem solving and organisational development. His latest company, emteq labs, uses VR, multiple biometrics and machine learning to quantify human emotion. Their integrated system is the most ecologically valid and user-friendly solution on the market an...
Aug 27, 2020•51 min
This week's Sunday Session features some bonus content from a conversation between James and Amer Fasihi, cofounder and CEO of healthtech company, Kraydel. The full episode will be out in a couple of weeks, but you'll hear a chat between James and Amer from before they officially started recording the episode. They chat about identity and how it changes as you move careers and companies, the opportunity that comes with first-mover-advantage and entrepreneurs' self confessed affinity to high-risk...
Aug 23, 2020•12 min
Lord Victor Adebowale is an influential and high profile healthtech leader who combines commercial acumen with a commitment to social responsibility and personal values. He is the founder and chair of healthtech company Visionable and was previously Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point. Lord Adebowale was one of the first to become a People's Peer and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the New Dea...
Aug 20, 2020•51 min
For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Dr Mala Mawkin, award winning doctor, speaker and writer. Mala is featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue 10 Rising Female Stars and UK Women of the Future Awards Finalist. She is the Host of the Digital Health Podcast for The Royal Society of Medicine Digital Health Council and is an advocate for women in science & medicine. She is now working at UK healthtech startup, Cellen. https://www.malamawkin.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/malamawk...
Aug 16, 2020•58 min
Dr Mark Jenkins is Co-Founder and Medical Director at Oviva UK Ltd , a company digitising behaviour change therapy for lifestyle conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Mark trained as a doctor at Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in London, where he also completed an academic foundation programme specialising in nephrology and then worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Mark is Oviva's UK Managing Director and leads Oviva’s research strategy and partnerships with the NHS. Get in touch: ww...
Aug 13, 2020•46 min
For this week's Sunday Session, James looks back on his first year as a doctor and gives a few tips and anecdotes for those looking to innovate, be that through QI projects, as an interpreneur or as an entrepreneur. Whether you're fixing a printer or overhaul an entire system, there is no project too big or too small to either learn from or make impact with. Empathy and understanding of how everyone in the hospital works is crucial and James talks about the value of spending time shadowing and l...
Aug 09, 2020•16 min
Robyn Symon is a two-time Emmy award-winning former PBS producer specializing in documentaries and television series. A former TV news reporter, Robyn has written and produced hundreds of hours of television programming for various networks including PBS, NBC, Discovery, CNBC, HGTV Reelz Channel including the PBS series "Voices of Vision," hosted by NPR's Scott Simon focusing on the work of non-profit organizations around the world and “Florida!" for The Travel Channel. Recently Robyn produced a...
Aug 06, 2020•41 min
It's a 241 on GE healthcare this week - Rob Walton, President and CEO across 13 markets is back to give us his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs. James also talks about perfection being the enemy of progress and how he's had to combat it in the last week! https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-walton-511555/ | https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Aug 02, 2020•11 min
This week, James is joined by Rob Walton, the president and CEO of GE Healthcare's businesses in 13 markets across Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. He took on the role in June 2019 and is responsible for leading all the business activities for GE healthcare in the region. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-walton-511555/ | https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Jul 31, 2020•53 min
Tomer is a Partner & CFO at aMoon, where he leads mid-late stage investments in healthtech companies. Tomer joined aMoon in early 2018 and led several investments including $30M Series C round in Zebra Medical Vision and $55M Series D round in Seer. He is also a board member in PharmaTwoB and Mapi. With 15 years of US capital markets experience, Tomer spearheads aMoon’s Bridge to Wall Street, where he manages the fund’s relationships with major investment banks, equity research analysts and ...
Jul 27, 2020•48 min
Amit Patel is the founder of a brand new digital health insuretech startup, called hlthie. Previously, he was an intrapreneur responsible for incubating, testing and scaling innovative and compelling customer propositions as director of vew ventures at bupa. He is a start-up advisor and a tech enthusiast with keen interest in exponential technologies (e.g. Blockchain / DLT, ML / AI etc) and their application in healthcare and insurance. Previously, Amit has held several Senior Roles at Bupa incl...
Jul 23, 2020•53 min
This week's Sunday Session is on grant funding and James explains Innovate UK and SBRI funding for the UK and Europe. He talks about a couple of different grants out currently, how to apply and what they're looking for. Check the grants out here: 1. Innovate UK: Biomedical Catalyst 2020 - https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/623/overview#summary 2. SBRI: Competition 17: Urgent and Emergency Care - https://sbrihealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SBRI-Healthcare-...
Jul 20, 2020•11 min
Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the founder and CEO of Cinapsis. He has over 13 years of experience working as a doctor and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He has been awarded a personal Fellowship from the Medical Research Council and has twice received the British Journal of Surgery Prize. Cinapsis SmartReferrals reduces A&E attendances by 83% and face-to-face appointments by 70% through advice & guidance. GPs can contact specialists for advice quickly and securely. Cinapsis S...
Jul 16, 2020•52 min
James has read the reports from the McKinsey Global Institute and Octopus Ventures so you don't have to... but they're also linked below. McKinsey's "Prioritizing health: A prescription for prosperity" concludes that by improving health globally, we can save lives and inject trillions into the global economy and they lay out some key findings in the exec summary which gives you the best overview. And Octopus Ventures have pinpointed huge innovation opportunities in fertility treatment, with glob...
Jul 12, 2020•11 min
Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning, and computational biology and is the founder of Unlearn.ai . Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and a postdoctoral scientist in biophysics at Boston University. Charles holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and a B.S. i...
Jul 09, 2020•58 min
This week, James is joined by an old friend and colleague, Dr. Kevin Rafferty. James and Kevin did anaesthetics together and Kevin still practices today. He uses his own VR headset design when anaesthetising his paediatric patients and tells us all about that and his vision for VR right across the patient-journey when it comes to anaesthetics and surgery. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-rafferty-7a1082138/ | https://www.raffertydistractionheadset.com/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www....
Jul 05, 2020•39 min
This week, James is joined by Jeremy (Jerry) Biggs, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NCL, a specialist investment management firm focusing on high growth technology companies, predominantly in the medical and energy sectors. Jerry has over 15 years of investment and corporate finance experience and sits on the board of a number of high growth businesses. Previously, Jeremy worked for Northern Trust Global Investments, HSBC Investment Bank and BoS Investments and has been the Investment...
Jul 03, 2020•52 min
This week James is again joined by Sam Shah to talk about being BAME in healthcare and technology. Sam is a clinical lead with an interest in healthcare technology, digital experience, translational research and supporting behaviour change. He is an NHS Consultant with experience in clinical commissioning, service redesign, public health, workforce planning and health economics. He is also a Digital Health Tech Advisor, the FT's 4th most influential BAME tech leader 2019, a Finalist 2019 Digital...
Jun 28, 2020•17 min
