TLSD team operates with cross functional expertise to drive corporate success. Aligning closely with stakeholders across the entire life sciences eco-system and value chain. The team conduct scientific due diligence and publish analyst research, engaging with financial markets (public and private) for access to capital and price discovery in a strong evidence-based approach.
We work with clients to structure deals as well as strategically plan mergers & acquisitions, commercialisation through to industry access. Enabling corporate growth, divestments and or co-creation of ideas. Which can involve repurposing, reverse innovation, reprofiling or developing unique ideas or novel strategies where we can create value and generate accretive options for our corporate and fund clients.
Given our preferred hands on approach, we base our business model on the rationale of six degrees, leveraging our capabilities, utilising the global interconnected world we now live in, to easily reach out within regulatory constraints and without geographical limitations - from the Earths meridian and the heart of London’s medical corridor, we have a network that gives us maximum capabilities with minimal effort to seek and find the best global highly disruptive technologies that fit with 21st Century ideas
Alia Minhas MBA ACSI
Chief Executive Officer
Senior Manager Employed
Ms. Minhas is Director and co-founder of The Life Sciences Division an Investment bank. Alia worked as a buy side equity analyst and associate director in the biotech sector at Mulier Capital, an Investment bank and Investment management firm that specialised in gene therapies.
Prior to establishing and funding a number of life sciences private equity backed businesses, executing on mergers, acquisitions and divestments. Alia’s formative banking career was at Lloyds Banking Group and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. Mainly working within Wholesale and International Banking.
In her last role at Lloyds, Alia worked within Group Finance as a senior strategy and financial analyst and was involved in a multibillion-pound transformation project. Ms Minhas continues to serve as a Director or Non-executive Director of a number of life science companies.
Dr Navid Malik PhD MSc MBA ACSI
Head of Research and Executive Director
Senior Manager Employed
Navid is an award-winning stock picking analyst, (Starmine and Extel Rated) recognized Internationally for his work in the biotech sector.
Navid began his career at Williams de Broe – now part of the ING group, before moving to Collin Stewart, later as a partner at Matrix Corporate capital he won multiple awards in the sector.
Dr Malik headed up a number of smaller mid-cap broking firm healthcare franchises where he focused on marketing deals before co-founding The Life Sciences Division.
Two Starmine Awards: Across Europe for stock picking pharmaceuticals and for healthcare UK & Eire (2011)
Navid has lead some of the largest European IPOs in the biotech sector, successfully floating companies onto the London Stock Exchange AIM market, as well as raising billions of dollars of capital. Dr Malik is an extel rated research analyst and continues to write extensive corporate and detailed thematic research on industry.
Dr Malik continues to serve as a Director or Non-executive Director of a number of life science companies.
Dr Christina (Ena) Bromley PhD MSc
Director REGULATORY AND BIO-ANALYTICS
Dr. Bromley is a statistical geneticist, genetic epidemiologist, visionary and analytical expert. Ena supports the team in building corporate growth and avoiding clinical risk through actionable decision making, scientific knowledge, regulatory and bio-analytic insight, as well as thought leadership.
Ena has been contributing to international regulatory agencies along with biotech and large pharmaceutical companies for 26 years. She has provided her expert opinion in the design, analysis and interpretation of complex data. This includes representing companies towards regulatory approval for vaccines, targeted therapeutics, drug discovery and medical devices.
Dr. Bromley co-founded BioStat Solutions, Inc (BSSI) in 2001 the company was acquired by PharmaLex in September of 2020 facilitating its expansion of analytical services internationally.
Dr. Bromley serves the Bayesian Biostatistics Meeting and is co-chair for MBSW (Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop). Dr. Bromley also serves on various data safety monitoring committees.
Ena utilizes her knowledge across various therapeutic areas as well as her network of key opinion leaders (KOL’s) to bridge the communication gap between scientific expertise and investment opportunities. Ena lives in the USA with her family.
Prof. Ashley George PhD FRSC
Director M&A
Ashley works with the team across corporate broking and advisory, with a focus on transactions that are research led ideas for strategic corporate growth, mergers, acquisitions, divestments and co-creation.
Prof George is a visiting lecturer at UCL and serves as treasurer to Pistoia alliance a not for profit organization as well as continues to serve as a Director or Non-executive Director of a number of Life Sciences companies.
Ashley has over 26 years of experience in the life sciences industry most recently as a Global Executive at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and served as Global Head of Centre of Excellence for Innovation and Consumerisation.
Ashley is an award winner of multiple disruptive digital and transformative technologies in the healthcare space including GSK’S MyAsthma digital App obtaining both EU CE - mark and FDA 510k approval.
Resitha Airey BSc (Hons) CPE, ABPI
Director Corporate Advisory
Ms Airey has a clear focus on corporate clients. Corporate advisory and value accretion through evidence-based medicine, real world outcomes, commercialisation and industry market access.
Resitha is active across various life sciences industry and advisory boards with key opinion leaders, healthcare payors, and patient advocacy groups.
Resitha has over 26 years of experience working in large pharma, most recently within the Novartis Group, at Alcon as Scientific Operations Executive leading the global ophthalmology real world outcomes study on 500,000 patients.
Ms Airey began her career at MSD (Merck, Sharpe and Dohme), then moved to Pfizer to work within the cardiovascular team on sales of Lipitor into hospitals.
Resitha is an award winner at Novartis and Alcon, most recently for excellence - Communiqué redefining Lucentis marketing and has won multiple awards for creating and implementing digital technology platforms.
Ms Airey continues to serve as Director or Non-executive Director of a number of life sciences companies.
Prof. Dr. Gene Olinger PhD MBA
Research & SCIENTIFIC Advisor
Gene is a scientist with over 20 years of experience leading complex projects that aim to solve long standing problems within clinical diagnostics, therapeutics, and immunology. He is considered a leading authority for complex in-vitro and in-vivo studies, in BSL-3/BSL-4 laboratories, where he has focused on the development of vaccines and countermeasures to emerging pathogens and biological threats. He is now focused on companies and programs with a special interest in synthetic biotechnology, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Olinger is a proven thought leader in infectious diseases, bio-surveillance, public health and medical intervention development, evidenced by 3 patents, and over 100 peer-reviewed published manuscripts, abstracts, and reviews.
Prof Olinger is a subject matter expert in immunology, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, virology, and vaccinology holding two professorships: Professor at the College of Biosciences at Kansas City University of Medicine. And an Adjunct Associate Professor at Boston University - Boston University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease.
Dr Olinger has served in a NGO in Maryland since 2013 as its Lead Scientist for the Life Science PI & SME capabilities.
Gene lives in the USA with his family and continues to serve as a Director or Non-executive Director of a number of life science companies.