Management team
Christian Hoyer Millar, MA, Hons (Oxon); CEO
Christian was awarded a scholarship to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Lincoln College, Oxford. His career started at the Boston Consulting Group where he worked both in Europe and USA. He then moved to the UK Holding Company of the German/Dutch Conglomerate, Hoogovens as a director of a number of the subsidiaries in the UK, winning the Queen’s award for Exports. He then became a Vice President of Fox Pitt Kelton, where he worked on the mergers and acquisitions of US Regional Banks and after the company went public was headhunted to run a venture capital firm in conjunction with Ensign Trust PLC, owned by the Merchant Navy Pension Fund. Since then Christian has worked in Venture Capital and is the founder of one Ofex listed company and a founding shareholder in one AIM listed company. He is a director of TQP Technology Limited, a plant-based pharmaceutical standardization company. He has extensive experience in the USA and Asia.
Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev, MA (Oxon), PhD (University College London), FRSM; CSO
Sasha read mathematics, physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1989, he was selected by the George Soros Foundation to study for a year at the University of Oxford along with 20 top Soviet graduate students. He then obtained his PhD in cell biology from University College London (with the research based at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund). He spent six years at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ, USA as a research assistant funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Upon return to England he established his research laboratory at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He was a University Academic Fellow (Research Council UK) and a Senior Fellow of Exeter College, sponsored by Cancer Research UK, Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Dr Aroul Ramadass, PhD (Cantab); Science Director
Aroul read molecular biology and biotechnology at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, after obtaining National First in the All India Combined Entrance Exam. He was awarded the Felix and Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarships and read bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge and at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (PhD awarded in 2004). His PhD was also partly funded by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Since then he worked with Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society and Cambridge Philosophical Society.