OUR TEAM

Leadership

Dr Jugal Suthar

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jugal trained as a pharmacist at University College London, before undertaking clinical experience at the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, with a focus on acute-care and medicines optimisation. This preceded technical and commercial positions at Glaxosmithkline, Pfizer and Indian CDMO; Piramal Pharmaceuticals. Jugal completed a PhD in Pharmaceutical Engineering at University College London. His published research focused on novel biosensing approaches for the detection of exosomal protein biomarkers as part of minimally invasive liquid biopsies. His progress was recognised through his nomination as a Bioanalysis Rising Star in 2021. Jugal has helped found Vesynta through his passion for enterprise, med-tech and patient safety.

Dr Alaric Taylor

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

Alaric studied Physics at Imperial College London prior to training in photonic systems at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD for his work on bio-inspired thermally-responsive glazing from University College London. Alaric spent time working for Microsoft on the Hololens project in Finland as part of the Advanced Optics Rapid Prototyping team. He then returned to the UK to take up an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship as part of an EU Horizon 2020 consortium project (DIACHEMO). His final role at UCL was as a member of the Rapid Prototyping & Fabrication Facility (Physics, Biochemical and Chemical Engineering), designing and manufacturing custom scientific instrumentation Alaric has been awarded the Sir Ivor Cohen Award (2020) for his work and is a member of the Workshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers - reflecting his love of making things that enable others.