Jayesh Pankhania

Jayesh is a Chartered Accountant with nearly 30 years' senior finance experience. Between 2018 and 2021 he was Chief Financial officer of Horizon Discovery plc, a life science tools company, where he led the development of its strategy and prepared it for a Nasdaq listing. The investor outreach culminated in a successful trade sale of the business to Perkin Elmer Inc. He served as Chief Financial officer of Xtera Limited, a provider of subsea telecoms technology, from 2017 to 2018, and HOC Group, a construction company, from 2015 to 2016. From 2011 to 2015, he was in a Deputy Chief Financial officer role at Asia Resource Minerals plc. Jayesh holds an M.B.A. from the London Business School and a degree in Accountancy from the University of East Anglia, and qualified with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.