Management team

Tim McCarthy FCCA, MBA

Chief Executive Officer

Tim has 40 years’ international senior level business experience in high growth biotech, healthcare and technology companies. He is also Chairman of Incanthera plc and 4basebio plc. Tim was formerly CEO and CFO of a number of UK public listed and private companies including, including Alizyme plc and Peptide Therapeutics Group plc, and has a core understanding of AIM and its regulatory processes. Co-founding a number of healthcare and biotechnology companies, he has helped raise substantial amounts of equity capital and also advised and worked at Board level for a diverse range of companies internationally, in areas such as business strategy, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence and licensing.

Dr Tim Franklin PhD, MBA

Chief Operating Officer

Tim has 30 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He worked in clinical research, sales & marketing, and global strategic marketing for Warner Lambert, Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. He later moved to the capital markets where he became a top-ranked pharmaceuticals analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort investment bank. He applied his experience to stock selection at hedge funds and advised several small biotechnology companies on corporate and commercial strategy and access to capital. He holds a BSc in Medicinal Chemistry and a PhD in Pharmacology from Loughborough University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Ashley Clarke ACA

Group Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary

Ashley brings over a decade of experience in the financial sector. She began her career at a Big Four accounting firm and later advanced her professional expertise by earning her ACA qualification with a respected local firm.<br /> Her professional journey is rooted in auditing, where she developed expertise working with a diverse portfolio of audit and non-audit clients across various industries. Ashley’s experience spans from supporting SMEs to managing large international group consolidations, giving her a comprehensive understanding of financial management across different business scales.<br /> Ashley has been closely involved with the company’s accounts for several years via outsourced accountants, providing her with deep familiarity with its operations. Now, as Group CFO and Company Secretary, she is poised to leverage her extensive knowledge to drive strategic financial growth and ensure robust fiscal management.

R&D team

Sébastien R. Goudreau Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer of ImmuPharma Biotech and Board Director

Born in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, Dr Goudreau obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the Université of Montréal as a NSERC fellow before moving to Switzerland to conduct postdoctoral studies at the ETH Zürich as an FRQNT fellow. He then moved back to Canada for one year where he co-founded FindMolecule inc. and worked for the pharma industry.</p> <p>In 2014 he joined ImmuPharma as research director and established the research laboratories of Ureka in Bordeaux. After the merger of ELRO with Ureka in 2019, Dr Goudreau became Chief Scientific Officer of Ureka Pharma and in 2021, he became Chief Executive Officer of ImmuPharma Biotech. Notably, Dr Goudreau and his team are credited for the discovery and development of, among others, URK 614, BioGlucagon, and BioAMB.

Laura Mauran-Ambrosino Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer of ImmuPharma Biotech

Born in Montpellier, France, Dr Mauran- Ambrosino obtained her PhD in Chemistry<br /> at the Université de Bordeaux as a CIFRE fellow in co-supervision by Dr Goudreau.</p> <p>She then conducted postdoctoral studies at the “Centre Hospitalier Universitaire” Pellegrin in cell biology. In 2018, she joined Ureka and established the biology department and the analytical chemistry department and in 2021, she became Chief Scientific Officer of Ureka Pharma. Dr Mauran-Ambrosino was a key contributor to the development of BioGlucagon, and BioAMB.

Scientific collaborator

Professor Sylviane Muller PhD

Research Director at CNRS & Co-founder of ImmuPharma France

Professor Muller earned her doctorate in sciences at the University of Strasbourg and focused on immune responses as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg. Today, Prof. Muller is a research director at CNRS and supervises over 50 researchers at the CNRS Laboratory of Therapeutic Immunology and Chemistry at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, which she has headed since 2001. She is also Head and Coordinator of the Drug Discovery Center for Cancer and Inflammation. Her expertise in peptide immunochemistry, combined with insights into the molecular and cellular pathways behind autoimmune disease, led to the discovery of Lupuzor.</p> <p>Professor Muller has filed for 24 patents and published more than 330 papers and reviews.</p> <p>For her contributions to the treatment and understanding of immune-inflammatory diseases, Professor Muller has received numerous awards, including the Apollo-B award from Roche (2007), the CNRS Silver Medal (2010), the CNRS Innovation Medal (2015) and the French Académie des Sciences Grand Prix Léon Velluz (2016).</p> <p>Professor Muller was also a founder of Neosystem, now Polypeptide-France, a leading peptide development and manufacturing company. She is the key inventor of ImmuPharma’s lead drug candidate Lupuzor™, for Lupus, and has been working in this field for more than ten years.