IDBS Management

Neil Kipling, Chairman and CEO

Neil founded IDBS in 1989 and has since developed what was a small niche IT consultancy into a leading provider of integrated software solutions for the life sciences industry. Neil graduated from Leeds University in 1984 with a B.Sc. in Microbiology. In 2008 Neil was awarded an honorary doctorate (DUniv) from the University of Surrey for his outstanding contributions to biotechnology and cheminformatics on an international level.

David Morgan, CFO

David has been with IDBS since 1997 and was responsible for establishing IDBS' financial systems and IDBS' presence in the US. Prior to joining IDBS, David worked at Yorkshire Food Group PLC in a number of roles including Group Finance Director. David is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Glyn Williams, VP Product Delivery

Glyn joined IDBS in 1995 and has worked primarily on large projects with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Prior to IDBS Glyn worked at Sci-net Ltd as a consultant for biological data management and has more than 10 years experience in managing projects in drug discovery IT. Glyn has a B.Sc. Hons in Combined Studies from Manchester University and an M.Sc. in Applied Computing.

Chris Molloy, VP Corporate Development

Chris joined IDBS in 2008. He was formerly Chief Operating Officer at MerLion Pharmaceuticals, an award-winning international R&D biotech headquartered in Singapore, where he was also responsible for strategic partnering and communications. Prior to this role, Chris had a fourteen year preclinical research career at GSK where he also held responsibility for co-ordinating IT and automation portfolios across screening and lead optimization worldwide.

Yike Guo, Chief Innovation Officer

Prof. Yike Guo founded InforSense in November 1999 (now the IDBS InforSense Suite). He became CTO of InforSense in Jan 2009, focusing on the company's strategic technology development and innovation. He is a world leading expert in large scale data mining and grid computing and also serves as Technical Director of the Parallel Computing Center and Head of the Data Mining Group at Imperial College. Over the last four years he has led a number of significant academic and industrial research and development projects, targeted at building next generation e-Science platforms for which he has gained UK and European funding in excess of £10million. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science from Imperial College London and is a Professor in the department of computing of Imperial College London.

Paul Watts
Vice President of Global Field Operations

Paul is responsible for IDBS sclient engagement programs globally, including execution, consulting services and delivery models. He is tasked with expanding the business into new geographies and verticals. With a strong track-record in working with high growth enterprise software companies, Paul joined IDBS in 2011, advising on APAC strategy before moving to head up North American operations. He is now based in San Francisco, running global field operations.

Paul Denny-Gouldson
VP of Translational Medicine

As VP of Translational Medicine, Paul leads the IDBS Healthcare Group's strategic planning and execution on the advancement of personalized medicines in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry. He joined IDBS in 2005 as part of the acquisition of his ELN company and has spearheaded the drive to make E-WorkBook the acknowledged technology and market leader in this space. Prior to this, he was Senior Scientist at Sanofi-Synthelabo (now Sanofi) for just under five years, where he managed a multi-disciplinary biology department.

Paul obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Essex University in 1996, and has authored over 25 scientific papers and book chapters.