Barry Knight is a Chartered Accountant and brings extensive financial expertise to Domainex, having been an executive director for Life Sciences companies for more than 25 years. Barry was previously Finance Director of both Trigen Holdings plc and AIM-listed Fulcrum Pharma plc. Most recently he was COO at Kinapse Limited during a period of rapid growth and its partial sale to a VC investor. In addition to his role at Fulcrum Pharma , he has been involved in preparing two further companies for listing, and has considerable experience in securing private equity funding and driving mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
Tom Mander started his career as a senior scientist with Xenova plc before becoming a group leader managing high-throughput screening at Glaxo Wellcome. Tom has been involved in the contract drug discovery and the translational research sector for the past 16 years. He held operational, business development, and marketing roles at Evotec AG before taking executive management positions at Tripos Discovery Research ltd (Vice President of Business Development) and Asterand Plc (Vice President of Sales and Marketing) prior to the companies’ trade sales. He joins Domainex from the Early Discovery division of Charles River, formerly BioFocus, where he was Director of Business Development. Tom will have specific responsibility for leading the Domainex service division.
Eddy Littler, CEO of Domainexsaid: “We are very happy to welcome Barry into Domainex. His financial expertise will help the further development of Domainex as a highly-productive and profitable business, and will be key as we seek to expand the business.
Our service business is performing very well, with new contracts from a number of biotech and pharma companies, as well as academic clients. We have built a firm platform that Tom will lead and expand”.
Domainex’s Chairman Keith Powell commented: “The appointment of Barry and Tom adds considerably to our executive team. Domainex has a superb reputation for conducting world-class science and driving its clients’ projects to the clinic. The addition of these two senior executives to our management team will help Domainex to progress its growth strategy over the coming years, and will keep Domainex at the forefront of drug discovery technology providers”.