Board of Directors
Executive Directors
Non-Executive
Jay LeCoque – Executive Chairman
Jay LeCoque is the Executive Chairman of SourceBio. He has over 20 years of senior management experience mainly focused on listed UK life sciences companies. Jay joined the Group in 2016 initially as Non-Executive Chairman and was appointed Executive Chairman in 2017. Jay was also an Executive Director of Bioquell plc from 2016 until its acquisition by ECOLAB in 2019. Prior to that, he was CEO of Celsis International plc from 2000 to 2009, and remained CEO following a public to private transaction in 2009 to form Celsis International Ltd until its acquisition in 2015. Jay gained an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management.
Tony Ratcliffe – Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Tony Ratcliffe joined SourceBio as Chief Financial Officer in February 2020. Tony has over 20 years senior financial management experience with fast growing technology companies in a variety of sectors. His healthcare and biotechnology experience includes Celsis International plc, Gemini Genomics plc (where he led their Nasdaq IPO) and as founding CFO of Lab 21. In other technology businesses, Tony led significant growth through the execution of six acquisitions whilst CFO of AIM quoted Brady plc and as its first Finance Director, he helped to significantly grow i2, a law enforcement software house. Tony qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and has an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Sir Ian Carruthers OBE – Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Sir Ian Carruthers joined SourceBio as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director in 2019. Sir Ian holds a number of chair and non-executive board and advisory roles in the public and private sectors. He was previously Chief Executive of NHS South of England, comprising three health bodies: South West, South Central and South East and his career in the National Health Services spans over 40 years. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to health in 1997 and a Knighthood in 2003 for services to the NHS and in 2006 he took over as Interim Chief Executive of NHS England, amongst the largest organisations in the world, with over 1.3 million employees and a budget in excess of £100billion. He has been the lead author on several papers on reviewing and improving the NHS and is seen as an international expert on healthcare systems and service delivery.
Sir Ian is currently Chancellor of the University of the West of England, and was formerly Chair of Healthcare UK, Chair of the Innovation Health and Wealth Implementation Board, Co-Chair of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia and Non-Executive Director of Bioquell plc.
Simon Constantine – Independent Non-Executive Director
Simon Constantine is a Chartered Accountant and has extensive business management and acquisition experience at board level, particularly in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. He co-led the management buy-in and subsequent trade sale of Life Sciences International plc, where he led the acquisition of 18 companies in 10 years. He has served as a non-executive director of a number of venture capital and private equity-backed businesses as well as having had more than 30 years’ experience as a director of publicly listed companies, including at Bioquell plc. Simon is Chairman of Northern Venture Trust Plc and Capstone Foster Care Limited, another buy and build of 16 businesses over 13 years.
Marco Fumagalli – Non-Executive Director
Marco Fumagalli is a Founding Partner of Continental, having co-founded the business in 2013, following a successful career in private equity spanning over 15 years. He worked from 1996 to 2010 at 3i SgR S.p.A. (part of the 3i Group), where he became a Partner and Managing Director before serving as Chief Executive Officer from 2005, following which he joined Leponte S.A., as Head of Private Equity. He has also held a number of directorships of both public and private companies. He is currently non-executive director of CIP Merchant Capital plc, an AIM listed investment company which he co-founded in 2017. Marco holds a Business Administration Degree from Bocconi University in Milan.
Christopher Mills – Non-Executive Director
Christopher Mills is a director and the sole shareholder of Harwood Capital Management Limited which is a designated corporate member and the controller of Harwood Capital. He formed the Harwood Capital Management Group in 2011 on his acquisition of Harwood Capital from the J O Hambro Capital Management Group. Christopher is also the CEO and director of NASCIT, a UK listed investment trust and a director and investment manager of Oryx. He has a long and successful investing track record and is a non-executive director of a number of both public and private companies. Prior to joining the J O Hambro Capital Management Group which he co-founded in 1993, he worked from 1975 to 1993 for Samuel Montagu Limited, Montagu Investment Management Limited and its successor company, Invesco MIM, latterly as Head of North American Investments and Head of North American Venture Capital.
