Alexander Hewitson

Alex Hewitson is the Vice President of Operations, where he has global oversight of the operations footprint and the human resources function.

Prior to joining Alchemab, Alex held several senior leadership roles within AstraZeneca where he was most recently Head of Operations, ensuring business operations were maintained during the company’s transitional move to Cambridge, leading the business operational activities during the pandemic, and setting operational strategy.

Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Alex was Programme Director and Head of the Campus Delivery Programme for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) where he led the delivery of the UK's National Capability Asset in the form of the high containment laboratories at The Pirbright Institute, and development of the UK Research and Innovation Campuses, through the delivery of key specialist national assets across the BBSRC Estate Portfolio.