Pete joined Epidarex Capital as a Venture Partner in 2014. He has more than twenty years of experience in drug discovery within the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Epidarex, he was Global Head of the Respiratory Disease Area and Site Head for the Novartis Institute of BioMedical Research in the United Kingdom. In this role, Peter had strategic and operational oversight for the respiratory portfolio from target discovery through to proof-of-concept trials in the clinic. He is a former Executive Director of the Novartis Developmental and Molecular Pathways Platform based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peter holds a BSc and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds.

Marianne Uteng PhD is a Managing Director at NVF in Basel, Switzerland. Prior to that, she worked in Novartis Global Drug Development, and in the Pre-Clinical Safety Department where she led teams delivering health authority-required and non-routine safety assessments for early and late-stage programs. She also supported the Novartis BD&L Search & Evaluation, and spearheaded collaborations with biotech companies and academia. Marianne received her MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Oslo and her PhD in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biophysics in a joint program between EMBL and the University of Oslo.

Marianne is a Partner at 3B Future Health Ventures, advisor to a venture capital fund investing in early-stage companies developing novel technologies and new treatments in oncology and rare diseases. Prior to joining 3B Future Health Ventures, she worked as a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) studying cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain integrating nutritional cues and regulating neuroendocrine signaling to control organismal growth and metabolism. She is a former Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher and was awarded the AXA Prize from the French Academy of Science in 2014. Marianne received an M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Bergen in Norway, a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Nice in France and an MBA from the IAE Nice Graduate School of Management, France.

Alek Safarian is the CEO of venture investment firm, ALSA Holdings Ltd. Alek has a diverse background in drug development spanning some 30 years. Trained as a pharmacist, he worked in regulatory affairs and clinical research roles for European and US based multinational pharmaceutical companies in Australia, with responsibility across the Asia-Pacific. He subsequently founded Novotech, a Sydney based contract research organisation working with hundreds of clinical stage biotech companies over a 21 year period. Alek holds a B. Pharm and MBA from the University of Sydney.

Emma is a Senior Investment Manager in the British Patient Capital Direct Investments team, where she focuses on opportunities in the life sciences. Emma joined the BPC team in September 2021 at the launch of Future Fund: Breakthrough and has led investments into companies spanning novel therapeutic modalities and technologies driving efficiencies in the life sciences sector. Previously, Emma spent three years investing in a broad array of life sciences companies for the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Life Sciences Fund managed by Catapult Ventures. Emma also joined Fund Her North as a founding member with the goal of increasing access to finance for female entrepreneurs in the North of England and has a background in Neuroscience.