The People
Beatrice Leigh - CEO
Beatrice worked in academic research at both Cambridge and Harvard Universities before moving to
SmithKline & French in 1980. She was Director of Operations for Technology Development at GSK and was responsible for
several start-up companies spun out of GSK's research. She joined Cresset in March 2004.
Dr Andy (J.G) Vinter CChem, FRSC - Chief Scientific Officer
Andy has forty years experience in the pharmaceutical industry with Beechams, Ciba, Maybridge,
The Wellcome Foundation and SmithKline & French. Since 1990 he has been a Scientific Consultant and Honorary Research
Fellow at the University of Cambridge and is also a Visiting Professor at University College London.
Andy was the scientific founder of Cresset.
Dr Sally Rose - Director of Business Development
Sally is a founder of BioFocus Discovery Ltd. She has extensive QSAR and molecular modelling
experience gained at Glaxo Wellcome and as BioFocus's Director of Molecular Informatics. She joined Cresset in 2004.
Dr Tim Cheeseright - Director of Project Management
After a DPhil in Chemistry at Oxford, Tim gained experience as both a medicinal chemist and a
molecular modeller at Peptide Therapeutics and Medivir before joining Cresset in 2002.
Dr Mark Mackey - Director of Development
Mark's PhD in Chemistry at Cambridge was followed by experience in molecular modelling and
software development at Napp Pharmaceuticals and at Merck, Sharpe and Dohme. He was one of the founders of Cresset.
Dr James Melville - Research Scientist
James' DPhil at Oxford in computational electrochemistry was followed by a postdoc in the group
of Prof Jonathan Hirst at Nottingham University. He joined Cresset in 2007.
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