Mr Davis is currently Chairman of Medica Group plc (the UK’s leading tele-radiology company).

He was formerly CEO of Optos Plc, a leading retinal imaging manufacturer from 2008 to 2015 until its sale to Nikon for $400 million in 2014; he continues to be an advisor to Nikon. Prior to this, Mr Davis was CEO of Gyrus Group plc, a leading medical device company focused on minimally invasive surgery and visualisation until it was acquired by Olympus in 2008 for approximately $2 billion.

Mr Davis has over 30 years of operational expertise and strategic consulting experience and holds a mechanical engineering degree, with honours, from Southampton University and an MBA from the London Business School.

Dr Sixt has 30 years of healthcare industry experience in the development and commercialisation of laboratory services, in vivo and in vitro diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals for industry leaders such as Amersham (now part of GE Healthcare) and Nycomed Pharma (now part of Takeda).

Since leaving Amersham, Bernhard has led several companies. He is a co‑founder of Agendia and served as its CEO from 2003 until 2011 and in 2005 founded Ipotuba, a pioneer for addressing the emerging need for pharmaceutical cryo-logistics. He also led ImmunID, an innovator in precision immuno-oncology, from 2013 until 2016.

Dr Sixt holds a Master of Science degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry from Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) and a PhD from the Technical University (TU), both in Munich, Germany

Dr. Roper joined Epidarex Capital as a Partner in 2013. 

She has more than 15 years experience in the Life Science and Healthcare industry, primarily in venture capital fund management and industry where she successfully executed transactions both as a direct investor and as a business development executive.  Prior to joining Epidarex, Dr. Roper was the head of Business Development at Chroma Therapeutics, an Oxford-based venture-backed drug discovery and development company focused on inflammatory disorders and oncology.  

Dr. Roper was involved in all key company strategic decisions and successfully established a number of major company-building alliances.  These included a multi‐target deal with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) around Chroma’s novel platform.  She is a former executive with the Life Science venture capital team at the Investments Division of The Wellcome Trust.  In this role, Dr. Roper provided direct early-stage equity financing to private companies in the Life Sciences industry in the US and Europe.  Her investments included Fovea Pharmaceuticals, Nabriva Therapeutics and Sirtris Pharmaceuticals.

She is also a former member of the Life Science team at Atlas Ventures, London.  Dr. Roper holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry (1st class) from the University College Cork, and a Ph.D. from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

Sinclair is a Managing Partner at Epidarex Capital, an international life science and health technology venture fund based in Edinburgh, UK and Bethesda, Maryland in the US. 

Sinclair currently serves on the Board of Directors of Apellis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Clyde Biosciences Ltd., Edinburgh Molecular Imaging Ltd., Maxcyte Inc., and Sirakoss Ltd.  He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, an M.A. (Hons.) in Political Economy from the University of Glasgow and an M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. 

Sinclair is a former St. Andrew’s Society of New York Scholar and an RC Kopf Fellow in international business at Columbia University.