Franc Gregori is a clinical pharmacist who worked with Boots, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer before moving into the City as an analyst. He has worked as a life sciences and healthcare analyst at various institutions, including Robert Fleming, BZW and BNP Paribas, covering everything from large pharma down to micro-cap healthcare service companies. He has been involved in a number of major transactions and has considerable experience of M&A, IPOs, and other advisory and corporate activities.

He gained his pharmaceutical qualifications at the Welsh School of Pharmacy and King’s College, London and has an MBA from Cranfield business school.

Lala Gregorek has broad experience as a life sciences analyst gained at Canaccord Adams and at Edison Investment Research, where she held various senior roles within the healthcare team. She has also worked in risk management at both Dresdner Kleinwort and Lehman Brothers, as a credit analyst focused on the financials sector.

She holds an MA in Biological Sciences (University of Oxford) and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise (University of Cambridge).

Hans Bostrom has over 20 years experience as an equities analyst at leading firms including Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, and Credit Suisse. He has covered medtech and healthcare services companies of all sizes across the UK, Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa, and has been involved in numerous IPO and M&A transactions.

He holds an MSc in Financial Economics (Stockholm School of Economics), and was number two ranked for Medtech and Healthcare Services in the Institutional Investor annual survey from 2005-10.

Katherine Genis has worked extensively in the US and Europe in capital markets in the life sciences space primarily as a sell side analyst at various institutions including BNP Paribas, ING and Deutsche Bank, where she has covered a large breadth of companies in pharma, medtech, biotech and retail.

She has also worked as a director of investor relations for two US biotechnology concerns, Celera and Applied Biosystems. She holds an MBA from Boston University.