Our Team
Julie Hart
Director of Strategic and Industry Partnerships
Julie initially trained as a research microbiologist for Unilever. Since then Julie has been leading commercial teams in the diagnostics and life sciences businesses for nearly 25 years prior to joining the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (DEC) London at Imperial College in 2013. Julie joined the Oxford AHSN in 2014 as Associate Director of Networking then went on to set up the Diagnostics and Precision Medicine programme before being appointed Director of Strategic and Industry Partnerships in 2019.
Andrew Stainthorpe
Head of Market Access
Andrew joined the Oxford AHSN in November 2018. He leads a team of health economists and analysts working with NHS organisations and industry partners on the value of new technologies and steps towards adoption. Andrew was previously a programmes lead at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) assessing medicines, medical devices and diagnostics.
Guy Checketts
Head of Transformation and Evaluation
Guy has 25 years technical and commercial experience across many sectors of the medical device industry in the UK, USA and Europe. He has developed and launched many new products and led successful change management projects at scale. Guy is passionate about fully understanding the user experience to deliver the best solutions for the patient, provider and manufacturer.
Flora Hatahintwali
Project Manager
Flo joined the Oxford AHSN in November 2018. She is currently supporting Bucks HSC Ventures and TheHill. Flo aims to understand the SME’s services, their needs and issues and advise and signpost the SME to TheHill, Bucks HSC Venture, Oxford AHSN and partners as required. Flo has ten years’ experience as a forensic scientist doing DNA analysis and processing improvement projects. She worked as a project manager in a nanotechnology company driving a team towards the completion of tasks, managing risk and issues among other roles and responsibilities.
Ashley Aitken
Senior Programme Manager
Ashley has 10 years’ experience of sales and marketing in the life science sector. She is a graduate of the University of Warwick and specialised in Molecular Genetics. She is currently Programme Manager for the SIPs team, and works with SMEs and individual innovators to help them develop their innovations and value propositions. She also manages the AHSN’s Innovation Exchange.
Nadia Okhai
Project Manager
Nadia joined the AHSN in September 2018. She supports service evaluations for novel diagnostic technologies within the NHS setting, understanding and overcoming the barriers to implementation. Nadia has worked in R&D for both industry and the NHS and has over six years’ experience in clinical diagnostic pathology, namely histopathology and microbiology. She has an understanding of UKAS accreditation for laboratories and compliance with international standards (ISO 15189). She was heavily involved with conducting audits for service improvement and validation / verification of new diagnostic equipment. Nadia is currently completing an MSc in Genomic Medicine.
Marianna Lepetyukh
IBD Clinical Network Manager
Marianna joined the Oxford AHSN in 2017. She leads on the Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Endoscopy workstreams. Marianna has over 15 years’ experience in commercial and business development in both multinational companies and the NHS, with expertise in delivering income and business generation projects, strategic business planning and business modelling.
Rochelle Nelson
EA to Julie Hart and Communications Administrator
Rochelle, who joined the Oxford AHSN in 2014, supports the Strategic and Industry Partnerships Director, and the Communications team. She has led on streamlining administrative processes within the office and has in-depth knowledge of NHS Procurement systems and processes. She previously worked for the University of Oxford supporting the Estates Department with a particular focus on improving access.
Ruby Urwin
Digital Marketing Manager
Ruby joined the AHSN in January 2019. She is a graduate in Professional writing and has since done further digital marketing training. For the last five years she has worked as a Digital Marketing Manager, both agency side and in-house for a variety of businesses.
Mamta Bajre
Lead Methodologist/Health Economist
Mamta joined the AHSN in August 2018 as Lead Methodologist/Health Economist in the Strategic and Industry Partnerships programme. She was previously working as health economist at NIHR London In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative. She also has over 6 years of experience as a GP and clinical researcher.
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