Liz Shanahan

Non-executive Director

Liz Shanahan joined the Board as a Non-executive Director in October 2020. She is Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Until 2014, she was Global Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences at the NYSE-listed management consultancy, FTI Consulting Inc., who had, in 2007, acquired the communications business, Santé Communications, which she had founded in 1995. Liz is also a Non-executive Director of Advanced Medical Solutions plc and Celadon Pharmaceuticals plc as well as being a Director and Trustee of CWPlus, the charitable arm of Chelsea & Westminster Foundation Trust Hospital in London, where she was a Non-executive Director for more than five years. She is also a member of the organisation’s Innovations Advisory Board. Liz has a degree in Computer Programming and Maths from University College Cork, and she is an alumnus of the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.

Key Areas of expertise:

Pharmaceutical and healthcare industry expertise, financial including M&A, risk management, public policy, ESG strategy, international markets, communications and investor relations.  

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