Huw Jones

Huw is CEO of Chronos Therapeutics in Oxford and Gen2 Neuroscience in Cambridge UK. During his time at Chronos he extracted the company from Oxford University, raised substantial grant and equity finance and led Chronos’ acquisition of three early research programmes in brain disease from Shire PLC. He was surprised and pleased to have been awarded European CEO of the year 2016/17 for drug discovery by European CEO Magazine, alongside leaders in their sectors from Adidas, Unilever and Spotify. Huw recently joined Gen2 Neuroscience in Cambridge UK as CEO. Gen2 has a unique technology targeting dementias and tauopathies and is funded by the UK Dementia Discovery fund.

Previous posts include: NED, then rescue CEO, Ardana PLC; non–executive chairman, Ashbourne Pharmaceuticals; president Europe, CV Therapeutics Inc; SVP, Elan Pharmaceuticals and various roles of increasing responsibility at SmithKline Beecham (GSK). In his varied career he has launched dozens of new medicines in several countries, completed tens of M&A transactions and managed many drug development programmes. Huw holds a PhD in neuropharmacology from the University of Birmingham, he is a passionate SCUBA diver and wine lover but never combines the two.