Doug Roberts

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Warwick

Doug Roberts received an MSci from the University of Bristol in 2010 and then a PhD under the guidance of Prof Russell Cox at the University of Bristol and the University of Hannover. After completing his PhD in 2014 he joined the group of Prof Greg Challis as postdoc, trying to develop genome mining approaches to discover novel natural products for the use in agrochemicals in collaboration with Syngenta. 

Paul Wilmes

Professor of Systems Ecology, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine

University of Luxembourg

Mel Greaves

Institute of Cancer Research

William Wade

Professor of Oral Microbiology

King’s College London

Maria Vehreschild

University Hospital Cologne

Sarah Hemmasi

Research Associate

Zymo Research Europe GMBH

Marcus Claesson

University College Cork

Dirk Krueger

Biomedcentral

Lars Engstrand

Karolinska Institutet Innovations

Sonya Brown

General Partner

Norwest Venture Partners

Based in Palo Alto, Sonya is a General Partner at NVP and co-heads the Growth Equity practice where she focuses on investing across a wide range of sectors including consumer, retail, internet, and business services. 

Prior to joining NVP, Sonya was at Summit Partners, a private equity firm with over $11 billion under management, where she worked for nine years in the Boston office and was responsible for leading the firm's Consumer and Internet Industry Group in North America. Sonya was engaged in all aspects of the deal process including deal sourcing, due diligence, deal negotiations and board representation. Her most recent and past board directorships and investments include Aramsco, Airborne Health, Central Security Group, Physicians Formula Holdings (NASDAQ: FACE), Snap Fitness and Sparta Systems.