Team & Advisors

Toby Carroll

Founder & Executive Chairman

Mr. Carroll spent the last three years working with cloud-based EHRs across Africa, and 20 years previously working in global Investment Banking at organizations including Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Macquarie Bank, focusing on Emerging Markets. He specialises in cross-border operations and management structures and liaising with senior level government and managerial executives and a wide range of stakeholders.

Guys Newing

Founder & CEO

Mr. Newing is founder and CEO of Hexcel Global, a pioneer in developing cloud-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems for developing countries. He achieved success as a healthcare entrepreneur in Australia, and has twenty years experience in healthcare sales and marketing consulting, working for multinational pharmaceuticals including Merck and Pfizer in Australia and Asia.

Sal Shah

Global Head, Healthcare

Mr. Shah has over 20 years of global healthcare experience spanning industry and consulting. He has been operating at senior levels in a variety of Commercial Strategy and Market Access leadership roles within Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, IMS Consulting & ICON Plc.

Brendon Jones

Chief Operating Officer

Brendon’s 25 year career includes over 20 years experience in Investment Banking and he has previously been the COO for a large Hong Kong family. In his Banking roles he has run large/multi country Business and IT Programs (up to £30m in size) covering Front Office/Revenue generation for some of the top Banks including Credit Suisse, HSBC and Goldman Sachs.

Damoy Robertson

Head of Marketing

Mr. Robertson is a marketing and business development specialist with a key focus on innovation and early stage growth. He has delivered strategies for companies from various sectors including FinTech, PropTech and a range of blockchain-based businesses where he has launched 3 marketing platforms to support ICOs/token launches and has advised on a number of successful projects.

Mbi Tbetando

African Govt. Operations Chief

Mr. Tbetando has spent the last three years working with Kinect building political relationships in Cameroon, using a cloud-based EHR HEXCEL platform. He worked in medical analysis and diagnostics for almost a decade. Prior to that, he was a Senior Executive at EurOil/Bowleven and JP Morgan.

Omar Al-Sobky

Blockchain and Business Advisor

Mr. Al-Sobky has been in the crypto world since 2010 and served as a consultant and investor on many fronts in the world of cryptographic assets. He specializes in business model development, blockchain integration and PR strategies. In his role as Advisor for Consultancy ICO, Mr. Al-Sobky worked on a range of projects such as Asura.

Ankur Maheswari

Blockchain Developer

Mr. Maheshwari comes with more than 15 years of experience in software leadership and development. As the Director of Research at Techracers, he led development of multiple products on the blockchain including patientory.com, peculium.io, sgpay.org, howdoo.io and more. Though still a hands-on programmer, he specialises in the establishment and management of large (100+) cross-functional and geographically distributed teams of developers.

Dr. Adrian Cohen

Chief Medical Advisor

Dr. Cohen has over 30 years experience in the healthcare industry as a practicing physician and business developer, pioneer of Health IT management solutions including Paramedix, MedicalOnline, SkinChex, ConcussionPassport, Founder of GoodHealth Television, MedicalOnline, Immediate Assistants Events, Necksafe, Headsafe.

Leo Lee

Kinect Asia

Mr. Lee is part of the Kinect Team based in Tokyo and responsible for Kinect Asia’s Business operations. He is a global leader with over 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical innovation, commercialisation, access & policy. He has worked in North America, Asia and spent the last 12 years leading Japan Operations as President of Merck, Allergan and Cegedim.

Dr Desree Cox

MD, PhD

Dr. Cox is an internationally respected thought leader in Future Health Innovation and Regenerative Medicine and Digital Health, and the Founder and CEO of the HEALinc Future Health Innovation Summit (www.healincfuturehealthsummit.com) and The HEALinc Innovation Incubator (www.thehealinc.com). She is first Bahamian and first female British Caribbean Rhodes Scholar, a medical doctor, creative artist and published author.

John Burns

Mr. Burns serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of NeurSciences LLC, a privately company specializing in artificial intelligence. He serves on the board or as an advisor to other privately held exploration and production, software, process technology and fund management companies in the natural resources, energy and technology industries.

Mike Tinmey

Mr. Mark Timney is a global health care leader, CEO and President serving the biotech and pharmaceuticals industries, with 20+ years of sales/marketing experience, and a record of financial growth and success in designing and executing strategies to achieve market leadership. Previous roles include President & CEO at Purdue Pharma (2014 to Aug 2017), and Merck President US.

Kenith Peter Judge

Ken Judge OAM (Order of Australia Medal) works from Monaco with a private investment group where he uses his experience as a corporate lawyer specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate reconstruction and public company/capital markets finance. Mr Judge has had an extensive involvement in the Capital Markets of the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Peru and Brazil.

Nitin Melwani

Mr. Melwani is an entrepreneur with 20+ year experience in emerging markets. He currently runs a Management Consultancy in Dubai and is an enthusiastic early crypto investor. Nitin has been involved with blockchain technology companies for the last 2 years and is an angel investor to many of the early startups.

AJ Bretenshaw

Mr. Bertenshaw has a lengthy career in working in the innovation and technology space. He founded Serato digital music software in 1998 with Steve West and retired to the board in 2006 and has since returned as CEO in 2015. He is currently working on virtual reality, blockchain and digital music distribution projects.

Ross Ramsay

Mr. Ramsay is a commercial adviser with 25 years plus experience working at a senior level for international businesses including 17 years as a corporate and commercial partner with one of the world’s largest law firms. For 20 years he has acted on infrastructure, resource and energy projects in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region.

Fabio Pannuti

Mr. Pannuti has managed wealth for two ultra-high net worth families in the last several years. He was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of the Lauder family office (one of Alta Semper’s founding shareholders) where he managed a portfolio of over $9billion, across several asset classes (venture capital, private equity, listed equities) which span several geographies, with an increasing focus on growth and frontier markets.

Thomas A. Neyarapally

Mr. Neyarapally serves as the Chief Commercial Officer for Sema4, a health information company dedicated to improving the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Earlier in his career, Tom served as a corporate and intellectual property lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke LLP and Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP.

Annette A. Anthony

Ms. Anthony has served as counsel on a U. S. Senate Committee, on the overseas finance committee of a U.S. presidential candidate’s campaign, and has lectured at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris for a senior seminar on women and the law. She is a seed investor and recently founded a consultancy to leverage her international experience across the arts, education, business, and politics.

Jon Karas

President of Akoin

Mr. Karas is an established globally focused Entertainment, Finance and Technology industry entrepreneur. He is the Co-Founder of innovative Blockchain Platform Akoin with Global music superstar, innovator and philanthropist Akon. Mr. Karas is a partner in Strawberry Pictures with producers Michael and David Uslan (BATMAN- DARK NIGHT TRILOGY, LEGO MOVIE, NATIONAL TREASURE) focused on global production and financing opportunities that capitalize on their collective relationships in Asia.

John Evans

CEO, Hawthorn

Mr. Evans is a leader in Corporate Communications, he established Hawthorn in 2013. He has over 20 years’ experience working in financial and corporate communications, and reputation management. John was included in the Spears Top Recommended list for reputation managers and won the CityWealth career achievement award. John also sits on a government SME advisory group.