Steve Gardner
Dr Steve Gardner has over 20 years of experience and a strong track record of building world-class companies, teams and products within the life science and healthcare industries. He specializes in designing and delivering advanced semantic integration and search systems and has raised over £50M, participated in an LSE flotation and 11 corporate acquisitions. In his role as CTO of BioWisdom he worked on over 25 safety, regulatory and marketing projects for major pharmaceutical companies and provided the informatics support to the InnoMed (Alzheimer’s biomarkers) project for the EU under the FP6 programme. Steve was a lead contributor to the €2B EU IMI programme’s Strategic Research Agenda. Steve was founder and CEO of Synomics Ltd and European MD and CTO for Viaken Systems. Prior to that, Steve was Worldwide Director of Research Informatics for Astra AB, and as Senior Product Manager at Oxford Molecular, he co‐ordinated the senior scientific advisory meetings including four Nobel Laureates.
Steve’s favourite things…
- A single malt in front of a roaring fire on a crisp Winter’s day
- Winning the Ashes (or at least the local village derby game)
- The smell of Castrol R in the morning
- A really nicely fitting dovetail joint
- Learning something new
Steve’s most enjoyable projects…
- Building ShowcaseBio (of course!)
- Helping Cresset transform their technology, product and commercial strategy to compete on a global stage
- Anything that has a business plan in it!
The best thing about Steve…
Rowan says “He insists on not avoiding the difficult decisions or uncomfortable conversations, because experience has taught him that problems never disappear they only grow. He keeps us honest and real.”
Dirk says “Despite thinking that proteins are more important than DNA, Steve approaches challenges both systematically and rationally and helps us come up with solutions that are grounded in the real world”
Tony says: “Steve is an absolute master with business plans in the creative thinking and analytical skills that drive the content and fundamentals. His prior experience and intellect shine through.”
Favourite quotes
“Think of life as evolution in action”
Jerry Pournelle
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”
Albert Einstein
What am I Doing?
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