Hypha Natural Products Discovery:
Management Team

Hypha’s management team is led by Chief Executive Officer and founder Liam Evans PhD, who developed the company’s proprietary fermentation technology. He has twenty years’ experience of natural products discovery, including industrial agrochemical and pharmaceutical discovery with Syngenta plc and Xenova Ltd.

Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder Jonathan Steele PhD CChem MRSC is an expert in natural product process design and isolation chemistry. He has fifteen years’ experience of natural products discovery, including key positions in antimicrobial discovery groups at GlaxoWellcome plc and Cubist Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd.

Chief Technical Officer Stephen Wrigley PhD CChem FRSC has over twenty years’ experience of industrial natural products discovery and hit-to-lead progression. After starting his career with Glaxo Group Research Ltd, he held senior positions with Xenova Ltd and  TerraGen Discovery Inc., and more recently he was the Research Director at Cubist Pharmaceuticals (UK) Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of RecombinoGen Ltd.