The
Team
MirZyme is built by a team of committed and experienced individuals working at the forefront of medical research and business.
Management Team
Chairman and CEO
Asif Ahmed is the founder of MirZyme and a world-renowned British scientist who discovered two protective pathways that can be used to predict, prevent and treat preeclampsia.
Mr Mike Vousden
Financial Director
Mike Vousden has been a chartered accountant for over 25 years. He is responsible for all the financial aspects of the company.
Dr May Rezai
Operations Lead
May Rezai obtained her PhD in 2021 and has been working with MirZyme from its inception. She is also the Chair of a UK-wide community based charity.
Dr Allyah Abbas-Hanif
Clinical Development Lead
Allyah Abbas-Hanif is an experienced pharmaceutical physician with more than a decade of proficiency in taking drugs from concept to global markets. She is trained in cardiology with an interest in maternal health.
Non Executive Directors
Non-Executive
Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE FREng FRS is a British
engineer and crossbench member of the House of Lords. She was a managing director at Rolls Royce and a member of the governing board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
Mr Sami Ahmad
Non-Executive
Sami Ahmad is CFO of Trecora Resources, a public NYSE-listed (TREC) leading
company in chemicals based in Houston, Texas. Sami has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago.
Dr Wenda Ramma
Non-Executive
Wenda Ramma has a Ph.D. in Vascular Biology and an Executive MBA from the UCLA. Wenda is the Medical Science Liason (Cardiovascular) at Bristol-Myers Squibb. At Amgen Wenda supported the launch of Repatha and other cardiovascular products.
Dr Malcolm Barratt-Johnson
Non-Executive
Malcolm Barratt-Johnson is a Physician Scientist and the past president of the Royal Society of Medicine (Pharmaceutical Medicine). He is a lead medical assessor for MHRA and EMA. Malcolm is the MD of PharmaMedic Consultancy Limited.
Advisors
Prof Stephen Smith
Scientific Advisor
Professor Stephen Smith is the former Dean of Medicine & CEO of Imperial College Healthcare
Mrs Jane de Vries
Product Valuation Advisor
Jane de Vries has 17 years of pharmaceutical experience at GSK where she was a Senior Director and Value Evidence Leader within GSK’s global Value Evidence and Outcomes function, focussing on global payer and patient value evidence generation.
Dr Swati Agrawal
Scientific Advisor
Dr Swati Agrawal is a maternal fetal medicine doctor in Toronto and has focused her research on preeclampsia.