Jon is a biochemist and cell biologist with 22 years of scientific leadership experience in industry, primarily in oncology. He is an Operating Partner at Advent Life Sciences where he co-founded both Epitopea and the remyelination start-up Pheno Therapeutics, serving both companies as their first CEO.

Prior to joining Advent, Jon was CSO of gene editing tools and services company, Horizon Discovery, and Head of Biology at Vernalis Research. At both organisations his focus was on leading drug discovery projects, early-stage discovery collaborations and in and out-licensing key technologies.

Jon also has extensive postdoctoral experience working with Tim Hunt at Cancer Research UK and Sally Kornbluth at Duke University. He holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.