Board of Directors

Appointed in 2018, Lisa Anson has led the transformation of Redx into a clinical stage biotech with two programmes in clinical development and a growing pipeline of preclinical assets. During this time the company also secured major partnership deals for five assets with large and speciality pharma and secured long term financing with new blue chip life science focused investors.

Prior to joining Redx, Lisa had significant leadership experience in global pharmaceuticals over a 20-year career at AstraZeneca plc with her appointment in 2012 as President of AstraZeneca UK having held a series of senior commercial leadership roles in the company both the US and the UK. Lisa is also a key player in the industry, and in 2018 she was elected to the Board of the Bio Industry Association (BIA).  Previously Lisa has been President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and member of the board, where she chaired several UK industry committees and worked closely with the UK Government. Lisa started her career as a management consultant in London before moving to California with a cancer disease management company.

Lisa holds an MBA (awarded with distinction) from INSEAD, France and a First-Class honours degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in the UK. Lisa currently lives in Cheshire with her husband and three children.

Peter Presland joined the Board in November 2017 and has nearly 50 years’ experience in business, much of that at the highest levels of management within both public and private companies. A law graduate at King’s College, London, he also qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. In 1980, he joined C E Heath Plc, a major publicly quoted international insurance Group, as Group Accountant/Treasurer and became in 1985 the youngest ever PLC Director when appointed Group Finance Director at the age of 34. He was promoted to become Heath’s Group Chief Executive in 1990, and in 1996, he devised the demerger of C E Heath’s computer services operations into a separate publicly listed company, Rebus Group Plc, becoming its Chief Executive and in 1999 its Executive Chairman. Shareholders doubled their money in three years.

Since 2001, Peter has pursued a portfolio Non-Executive career. These appointments include the Chairmanship in 2003 of LINK, the UK ATM network, where he led a major corporate governance change and completed the merger of LINK with Voca, the provider of the BACS service, becoming Chairman of VocaLink in 2007. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee of East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and in 2019 was asked to become Chairman of the Governance and Finance Committee of The Lord’s Taverners, a high-profile charity. Peter is currently Chairman of Ashington Innovation PLC, a recently listed special purpose acquisition company.

Bernhard Kirschbaum joined the Board in January 2016. Bernd has over 25 years’ experience in pharmaceutical research and drug development, having held leadership roles at Merck/Merck Serono, Sanofi-Aventis, Aventis and Hoechst Marion Roussel. He has expertise in a broad range of disease areas including oncology, immuno-oncology, immunology, neurological disorders and cardiometabolic diseases. In the eight years to 2013, he worked at Merck/Merck Serono, becoming a member of the Board and Executive Vice-President, Global Research & Early Development. He was responsible for a budget of 1 billion euros and a global team of over 2,500 associates. In his last three years at Merck Serono, he led the successful growth of the company’s R&D portfolio, with over 70 programmes, doubling the number of Phase II assets in this period.

Bernd is currently Chairman of OMEICOS Therapeutics and GQ Bio-Therapeutics and a board member of BioMedX and Amarna Therapeutics as well as an advisor to the board of KAHR Medical.

Natalie joined Redx as a Non-Executive Director in May 2021 and brings extensive experience in the healthcare sector to the Board. She is a Managing Director focusing on Therapeutics at Redmile, which she joined in 2016. Prior to Redmile, Natalie was a Research Associate at the New York University School of Medicine. Natalie received a BA in Community Health from Brown University and a Certificate in Premedical Sciences from Columbia University.

Andrew Sinclair joined the Board in August 2026.

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare investing joining Abingworth in 2008, with previous experience as an equity analyst in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.

At Abingworth, Andrew works across multiple strategies, including CCD, private investing and specialises in evaluating opportunities in public companies including VIPE investments. He heads-up the Publics and Late Stage strategies, is fund manager for open market transactions and represents Abingworth on multiple company boards.

Andrew completed a PhD in Chemistry and Genetic Engineering at the BBSRC Institute of Plant Science, Norwich, and holds a BSc in Microbiology from King’s College London. Andrew qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG.

Bernard Coulie, M.D., Ph.D., joined the Board in August 2026.

Dr. Coulie is the current CEO of Pliant Therapeutics and has more than 15 years of senior leadership experience and drug development expertise. He joined Pliant in 2016  from ActoGeniX (acquired by Intrexon Corporation in February 2015), where he was CEO, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder. In these positions, Dr. Coulie played an integral role in advancing the company’s unique technology platform for oral delivery of biologics from early discovery stage through Phase 2 studies. Prior to ActoGeniX, Dr. Coulie held various positions with increasing responsibilities in drug discovery and clinical development at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development Europe. At Johnson & Johnson, he served as Therapeutic Area Leader Internal Medicine, managing a portfolio of products in GI, metabolic diseases and inflammation/immunology, ranging from early drug discovery through Phase 2 studies.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Coulie was a Staff Physician in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), Assistant Professor in Medicine at Mayo Medical School and a Mayo Foundation scholar.

Dr. Coulie holds several other Board positions and serves as a director and Chairman of Flindr Therapeutics B.V., as a director and Chairman of Atisama (formerly RAGE Biotech Pty Ltd) and as a member of the board of directors of Septerna, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company. He also serves as a director at the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association, a patient advocacy organization dedicated to the development of new drugs to treat Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Dr. Coulie holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a board-certified internist and holds an MBA from the Vlerick Management School, Leuven, Belgium.