The Team

The Team

iXscient’s core team comprises a set of individuals with extensive experience in the origination, development and management of technology-related business. In addition iXscient calls on the services of a number of experienced specialists.

Dr Nicholas Walker

Dr Nicholas Walker trained in clinical medicine at Cambridge (UK) and the Middlesex Hospital medical school London, researching and publishing in mammalian visual neurophysiology. He worked for several years as a hospital doctor, including working in neurology, specifically the neurology of movement and its disorders, for Professor Marsden at the Maudsley Hospital and in respiratory medicine for Professor Turner-Warrick at the Brompton Hospital in London. He then obtained an MSc in Computer Science from University College London and worked for four years as a clinical research fellow at the Biomedical Computing Unit of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund laboratories researching applications in computer vision and expert systems for medicine. He obtained a PhD in this area from Queen Mary's and Westfield college.

Following completion of his fellowship he joined MTA, a small contract research company conducting research in protocol-based clinical information systems and advanced signal processing, following which he spent 10 years at Central Research Laboratories (CRL), part of Scipher PLC, formerly the corporate research laboratories of Thorn EMI, running the advanced computation R&D group and then the bio and chemical microfabrication group.

Nick has worked as head of Scientific Generics life sciences consultancy group and CEO of Microsharp and Durand Technology Limited.

He founded iXscient in 2003.

nickw@ixscient.com

David Wenn

Dave Wenn is a proven Operations and Senior Project Manager with outstanding management, commercial, technical and financial skills honed in the Research and Development sector. He spent 20 years at the Central Research Laboratories (CRL), formerly the corporate research laboratories of Thorn EMI, most recently as Operations Manager for the Bio & Chemical Instrumentation Group, working on microfluidic devices for chemical, pharmaceutical and biodiagnostic applications.

Subsequent to this, Dave worked part-time and the University of Southampton as Project Manager on an FP5 project (“Optonanogen”) and at Brunel University as Business Manager working on an FP6 project (“INSTINCT”).

Dave has been involved with numerous other EU collaborative projects at all stages including identifying research opportunities, setting up consortia, writing proposals, contract negotiation, implementation & delivery, and Project Management & Coordination. He gained his BSc in Chemistry, Physics & Computing from Southbank University in 1992 and is currently studying for a Diploma in Financial Management.

Mike Jackson

Mike Jackson is an experienced project and business development manager with extensive management, business development, and technical skills in technology Research and Development.

He has delivered projects from conception to the market within tight budgetary and time constraints. In addition he has a wealth of experience in scientific and engineering solutions, together with the ability to envision, write proposals, implement and deliver both commercial and publicly financed research.