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Our people: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley Directors and Board members are listed first. Scroll down or click through to the next pages for other members of our team. Alternatively, you can refine your search by using the specialties listed below.

James Rose

James Rose is a healthcare innovation and market access expert, leading industry engagement at Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley. With over 20 years of experience spanning life sciences, pharma, and healthcare, James specialises in supporting innovators to navigate the complexities of NHS adoption. At HIOTV, James helps connect NHS systems with clinically and cost-effective […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Sophie Kearney

Sophie joined in 2024 to support communications and digital marketing activities, including managing content for websites and social media. She also supports the Head of Communications on communications with a wide range of stakeholders.

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Ashley Aitken

Ashley joined in 2015, as part of our Strategic and Industry Partnerships team. During her time with us, she has participated in numerous service evaluation projects including the implementation of point of care flu testing. Ashley has also been involved in providing early stage business and product support for many SMEs and innovators. She is […]

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Guy Checketts

Guy works with innovators and healthcare providers in all care settings to deliver real-world evaluations and to support the adoption and spread of clinically and cost-effective innovations across the NHS. He has over 30 years technical and commercial experience across many sectors of the medical device industry in the UK, USA and Europe, having developed […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Nadia Taylor

Nadia joined in September 2018. She has worked in R&D for industry and has over six years’ experience in diagnostic pathology within the NHS. She has previously worked in the field of Genomics, facilitating the 100,000 Genomes Project. Nadia has obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Genomic Medicine from the University of Birmingham. At HIOTV, […]

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Mamta Bajre

Dr Mamta Bajre is Head of Health Economics and Methodology and leads the Industry Support Team, supporting innovators, NHS organisations, and researchers to generate the evidence required for successful adoption and scale-up of healthcare innovations. Her expertise includes health economic evaluation, early value assessment, implementation science, feasibility studies, system readiness assessment, and real-world evidence generation. […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Flora Gleave

Flora has experience in conducting region-wide service evaluation and adoption projects. She led a programme aimed at implementing and evaluating various digital innovations across our partner NHS trusts. This also involved collaborating with clinical colleagues to complete a service pathway redesign, real-world evaluation and health economic study to gather the necessary evidence for further scaling […]

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Matthew Lawrence

Matthew leads on Industry and Innovation within the Strategic and Industry Partnerships Team. Matthew has a broad NHS and industry background covering primary, secondary, tertiary and commissioning functions in the NHS. Prior to the NHS, Matthew worked in charitable health and social care, technology, finance, and medical publishing. He has a BA from Stanford University, […]

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships

Florence Serres

Florence supports innovators in the early stages of technology and service development, helping them identify the evidence needed for successful NHS adoption. She works with innovators, clinicians, and industry partners to understand unmet needs, define evidence requirements, and develop practical evidence generation strategies. Her work focuses on supporting innovators to navigate the NHS landscape, understand […]

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Lauren Hudson

* Lauren is currently on maternity leave * Lauren joined in January 2020 as a project manager. She has worked in both R&D and commercial roles within the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. She supports the market access team with early evidence generation for innovators.

Specialties: Strategic and Industry Partnerships