Ajan Reginald

Chief Executive Officer and Global Head of Emerging Technologies for Roche Gro in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK

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Ajan Reginald founded Celixir with Professor Sir Martin Evans in 2009 and has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer since inception.

He is an inventor of Celixir’s core technology, discovered Heartcel and Tendoncel and designed and led the early clinical trials.

Under Ajan’s leadership, the company has grown from 1 employee in 2009 to ~70 FTEs in EU, US and Asia and has completed five successful funding rounds. These rounds include crowd funding in 2014 and successful institutional funding rounds in 2016 and 2017.

In addition to this, Ajan led the negotiation and completion of Celixir’s partnership with Daiichi Sankyo (DS) in 2016 and Co-Chairs the DS-Celixir Joint Steering Committee.