Andy Richards

Owlstone Medical appointed Andy Richards to its board as a non-executive director. Richards, an entrepreneur and business angel, has an established track record in founding and scaling up innovative biotech and health technology companies in the UK, the firm said. His early career spans positions with Imperial Chemical Industries and PA Technology, and he was a founder and executive director of Chiroscience until its merger with Celltech in 1999. Since then, he founded, invested in, and helped to scale more than 25 innovative ventures including Vectura, Arakis, and Cambridge Biotechnology.