Anjum Ahmad

Chief Accounting Officer & Company Secretary at Touchlight Genetics

Anjum Ahmad brings extensive insight into the UK life sciences sector and has been the longstanding Group Finance Director of Touchstone Innovations Plc (formerly Imperial Innovations) – the AIM-listed venture capital investor in early-stage science.

In his former role at Touchstone, he was one of the four-person senior executive team, presenting over £200m of investment opportunities in the therapeutics/biotech field to the Luxembourg Board, managing the corporate finance activity for an equity raise of £250m, responsible for the finance/treasury tax operations, conducting portfolio company asset valuations, and presenting the interim/year-end results alongside their CEO. He was also responsible for their I.T. and H.R. functions.

Prior to Imperial Innovations, he held finance positions within a tech start-up and GSK.