What iig has to say about sir al25 Jan 2021 21:27
Alastair has been Chief Executive Officer of Avacta Group plc since its inception in 2005 and has been responsible for the management and strategic development of the company, having led the IPO in 2006 and subsequent fund-raising and mergers and acquisitions activities of the group, and has overseen the product development programmes. Alastair combines world-class scientific and technical knowledge with a highly commercial mindset. He has a degree and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Manchester and, after working in the US for a period, took up a position at the University of Leeds in 1995. At the age of 38, he was awarded a Chair of Molecular Biophysics and had, over ten years, grown one of the leading biophysics research groups in Europe. He left his academic career in 2007 to focus full time on delivering value to Avacta shareholders.