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Our team

Chris Lawer Ooex 2024
Chris Lawer, Founder-CEO
20 years+ of experience driving health and wider innovation strategy, capability development and thought-leadership.
 
Formerly MD of Strategyn UK running healthcare innovation projects for global medical device, pharma and consumer health companies.
 
Extensive engagements with people with limited lives.
 
Author of Interactional Creation of Health.
 
MPhil, Cranfield School of Management.
Nicki Sutton 2024
Nicki Sutton, Co-Founder

20+ years of experience leading R&D and product innovation and growth for global medical device, pharma and consumer health companies.

Advanced methods, insights and knowledge of complex, chronic health conditions through deep empathic engagement with HCPs, patients and families throughout the world.

Previously, director at Cambridge Design Partnership.

MSc Biomedical Engineering from Surrey, MSc Strategic Marketing from Cranfield.

Tim Murdoch Ooex 2024
Tim Murdoch, CTO

20 years+ of experience delivering digital innovation for social impact at scale: handling sensitive personal data, architecting complex technologies and deploying scalable services.

Led development of M-PESA mobile payments platform in Kenya that now safely moves over 50% of the country’s GDP and has been deployed around the world. Co-founded Waymap, a platform for vision impaired people that provides access to public infrastructure in UK, US & Far East.

PhD in Engineering Design from Cambridge University.

Seonad McHugh 2024-
Seonad McHugh, Research

Highly experienced, empathic qualitative researcher with a deep intuitional sympathy for understanding people’s problems, thoughts, feelings and desires.

A BPS accredited psychologist and qualified grief counsellor, she has worked in diverse settings and contexts in both direct and advisory capacities.

Masters of Science in Psychology from Oxford Brookes (2023).

Bob Heath Ooex 2024-1
Bob Heath, Adviser

30 years experience as a pharmacist and 20 years+ as a physical therapist.

Educator in motor development, Dynamical System Theory, and metabolic syndrome, for professionals and at college-level.

Advises Ooex on the real experience concepts of Gibson's Perception-Action theory and Bergson’s philosophy of time, helping us to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin