Episode 98: Early access to somX 🔳

05/24/20 • 7 min

This week's Sunday session is a look into what James is building at somX. If you want to join the early access list, head over to www.somx.co.uk and be the first to hear the updates. Also mentioned this week - The London Business School Healthtech Challenge, a pitching competition with a £10,000 prize, which James is judging on Tuesday. Head to https://www.londonhealthtechchallenge.org/ to learn more and sign up to watch 👍🏼

Get in touch:
www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | [email protected]

Get in touch:
www.somx.co.uk | www.jamessomauroo.com | [email protected]

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Episode 97: The Story of a Healthtech VC with Ash Patel

James' guest this week is Dr. Ashish Patel, Principal at Optum Ventures, who, on their website describe him as the physician, technologist & financier triple threat!
Ash is serious about revolutionizing health care, and has a wealth of experience building, commercializing and financing disruptive health care technology companies. Before Optum Ventures, Ash served as a lead life sciences investor and head of research for Mercia Technologies, one of the most active investors in the UK. He led transactions into a variety of health care businesses, sat on multiple boards, and also led Mercia’s internal corporate strategy team. Prior to this, he served as Clinical Technology Director as part of the team that launched Babylon Health, a leading European AI-enabled healthcare business. He started his career as an anaesthetics and intensive care doctor in the UK where he was involved in academic research work and clinical practice. He holds a M.A. and medical degree from the University of Oxford, and is a member of the CFA Institute, London.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ashish-patel-md-2952a644/ | https://www.optumventures.com/
Get in touch with James:
[email protected] | www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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Episode 99: The Story of Zesty with Lloyd Price 🏥

This week, James is joined by Lloyd Price: Tech Entrepreneur, Corporate Executive and Board Advisor with 20+ years experience building Digital Businesses in 6 industries - Healthcare, Retail, Travel, Finance, Advertising and Dating. He's performed Senior Management, C-Level & Co-Founder roles @ Zesty, Badoo, Kelkoo, Yahoo! UK and Yahoo! Europe.
Lloyd co-founded Zesty from an idea in July 2012 into an award winning UK Digital Health company backed by a group of international VC funds including Mangrove Capital, LBO France, TA Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
Lloyd’s operational experience covers all stages of the Business Growth Cycle from Early Stage StartUps (Zesty) and High Growth ScaleUps (Badoo/Kelkoo) to Nasdaq listed companies (Yahoo!) and Private Equity owned Corporate Divestitures (Kelkoo).
His 7+ years Board Member and Board Advisor experience includes Zesty Ltd, the Deepbridge Capital Life Sciences investment fund, TenX Health Venture Capital fund, UK Digital Healthcare Council and Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy.
Get in touch with Lloyd:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloydgprice/ | https://twitter.com/lloydgprice
Get in touch with James:
www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk