Trustees

John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has extensive experience in company management and corporate compliance. Formerly Finance Director of a multi-national company and Company Secretary of a LSE quoted company. He also worked as a Management Consultant to a number of companies, including medical research.

Roderick James Hay is Emeritus Professor of Cutaneous Infection, Kings College London and of Dermatology, Queens University Belfast and is currently Consultant Dermatologist at the London Bridge Hospital. His clinical and research interests are Infectious and Tropical Diseases of the skin, particularly fungal infections.

He is a member of the Global Mycetoma Working Group and has worked with WHO on the objectives for Neglected Tropical Fungal Diseases (Fungal NTDs). He is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Buruli ulcer and Skin NTDs. For over 30 years he ran a skin infection clinic and mycology advisory service in London working in Guys and St Thomas Hospitals Trust and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

After graduating from Oxford University he went to study in the USA for an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From there he worked for two American high tech companies before joining the venture capital group 3i plc. He left 3i in 1989 to set up his own venture capital company, North of England Ventures. He is an Honorary Professor at the Alliance Manchester Business school at the University of Manchester.

Dr Caroline Pankhurst is a dentist and Specialist in Oral Microbiology and was formerly a Senior Lecture in Oral Microbiology at King’s College London Dental Institute. She has published extensively in the fields of oral medicine, oral microbiology, and dental unit waterlines including two books on infection control. She contributed the chapter “Treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis” to BMJ Clinical Evidence.

Phillip is a graduate of the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in the U.S.A., and Webster University in Geneva. He holds degrees in management, marketing, and economics with a concentration on analytical finance relation to company performance and investment valuation. He was responsible for the acquisition, completion, and integration of Emett & Chandler Inc., a California-based insurance broker, into the Jardine Matheson Group, which has since been publicly listed in London as Jardine Insurance Brokers plc. In his last employment with the Bordier & Cie, he was responsible for the Bank’s investments into the U.S.A. and U.K. markets.