Directors and Committees
Stuart Gall
Chief Executive Officer
Stuart was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2009. Stuart was a joint founder and executive director of Fusion IP plc, an AIM listed university IP commercialisation company, before its purchase by IP Group plc for £103 million in 2014. Stuart has over 25 years’ experience in both small company start-ups and public companies and previously worked at British Airways plc, The Promotions Partnership Limited, Anvil Limited and Toad plc (now 21st Century Technology plc).
Ian Whittaker
Chief Operating Officer
Ian was formerly the CEO of Inventive Medical Ltd (IML), the cardio ultrasound simulation company that was acquired by Intelligent Ultrasound in August 2016. Ian previously held roles at Hewlett Packard (HP) in the UK and EMEA. He was appointed to the UK Board in 2002, working as Vice President for HP’s UK Consumer, Imaging and Printing business.
David Baynes
Non-Executive Director
David was appointed to the board of Intelligent Ultrasound in 2011 and is currently the Chief Operating Officer of IP Group plc. David was the joint founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fusion IP plc before its purchase by IP Group plc for £103 million in 2014. David has previously worked at Celsis International plc, Toad plc (now 21st Century Technology plc), which he co-founded, and Codemasters Limited.
Helen Jones
Chief Financial Officer
Helen was appointed Chief Financial Officer in January 2020. She is a graduate of Cardiff University where she studied French and Spanish. She qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC in 2004. Prior to joining Intelligent Ultrasound, she held the position of Group Financial Controller of Amerisur Resources Plc, an AIM quoted oil and gas company, and spent over 10 years in various senior group finance and tax roles within Tata Steel Europe.
Riccardo Pigliucci
Non-Executive Chairman
Riccardo was appointed Chairman of the board of Intelligent Ultrasound in 2012. He has more than 30 years’ experience of guiding private and publically listed high technology companies and brings a wide range of experience in sales, marketing, operations, financing, acquisitions and public offerings within the medical sector. He is a former President, COO, and Board Member of The Perkin Elmer Corporation, has served as CEO of Life Sciences International plc, CEO of Discovery Partners International was on the Board of Dionex, a public company purchased by Thermo Fisher for more than $2 billion in December 2010 and most recently was on the board of DVS Sciences, sold in January 2014 to Fluidigm for $207 million.
Nick Avis
Non-Executive Director
Nick was the Scientific Director of Intelligent Ultrasound in its formative years and was appointed to the board of Intelligent Ultrasound in 2006. Nick was one of the architects of the One Wales Research Institute for Visual Computing and the NISCHR BRU in Advanced Medical Image Analysis and Visualisation. He was a founding member of the COSMOS (Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory) and is currently the Executive Dean at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Chester.
Nick Sleep
Chief Technology Officer
Nick was appointed Chief Technology Officer in August 2012. Before joining the Group, Nick ran his own consultancy specialising in providing management support to early stage companies, one of his clients being Intelligent Ultrasound. Nick is a software engineer by background, but has also run companies in areas as diverse as stem cell therapeutics and biofuels. Previous companies include The Technology Partnership, The Automation Partnership, Procognia and Magnecell.
Prof. Nazar Amso, PhD FRCOG FHEA
Non-Executive Director
Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University (2011-2016) and Senior Consultant in Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales (1998-2016). He retired from the University in February 2016 but continues as an Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and maintains Private Practice at Spire Cardiff Hospital. He qualified from the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq in 1974, obtained his MRCOG in 1985 and PhD in reproductive medicine from London University in 1996. Trained at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (1992-1994) and was appointed as a consultant at Gateshead Hospitals NHS Trust (1994-1998). He founded and directed the Ultrasound Masters programme at the University (2004-2016). He was the Ultrasound lead for the Welsh Deanery (2008-2016) and a member of the Deanery’s School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology training committee (1999-2016), was a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Specialist Training Committee (1999-2002), and the RCOG Welsh Executive Committee (2003-2010). He was the founding President of the British Society for Gynaecological Imaging.
Andrew Barker
Non-Executive Director
Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in senior management of technology and software businesses and in venture capital, having been involved in the early stages of internet computing with Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, later going on to help build Intel’s venture arm in the UK. Andrew was appointed to the board in October 2017, following the acquisition of Intelligent Ultrasound Ltd where he was Chairman and acting CEO. Upon joining Intelligent Ultrasound's board, he also became Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.
Audit committee
The Audit Committee has the primary responsibility for monitoring the quality of internal controls and ensuring that the financial performance of the Group is properly measured and reported on. It receives and reviews reports from the Group’s management and external auditors relating to the interim and annual accounts and the accounting and internal control systems in use throughout the Group. The Audit Committee meets not less than twice in each financial year and has unrestricted access to the Group’s external auditors. The Audit Committee is be chaired by David Baynes and also includes Riccardo Pigliucci, Andrew Barker and Professor Nick Avis.
View Audit Committee Terms of Reference
Remuneration committee
The Remuneration Committee consists of a committee chaired by Andrew Barker and also includes David Baynes, Riccardo Pigliucci and Professor Nick Avis. The Remuneration Committee reviews the performance of the executive directors and makes recommendations to the Board on matters relating to their remuneration and terms of service. The Remuneration Committee also makes recommendations to the Board on proposals for the granting of share options and other equity incentives pursuant to any employee share option scheme or equity incentive plan in operation from time to time. The Remuneration Committee meets as and when necessary.In exercising this role, the Directors have regard to the recommendations put forward in the UK Corporate Governance Code and the QCA Corporate Governance Code for Small and Mid-size Quoted Companies 2013.
View Remuneration Committee Terms of Reference
Nomination committee
Given the Company’s current maturity and the nature of its current board composition, the Company has established a more focused Nomination Committee to lead its process for appointments and oversee the development of a diverse pipeline for succession. The Committee will be chaired by Riccardo Pigliucci and also includes David Baynes, Nick Avis, Nazar Amso and Andrew Barker. The terms of reference for the Committee are based on the ICSA guidelines attached below.
View the ICSA Nomination Committee terms of reference guidelines