Richard Jones
Non-executive Director
Richard is an experienced PLC Board Director with significant experience in the healthcare sector. He is currently CFO of an AIM listed PLC, SID at an AIM listed consumer healthcare company and NED at a private UK based drug discovery company.
In mid-2020, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer at UK based and then main market listed Medica Group and managed the P2P process in mid-2023 which resulted in the company being acquired by IK partners in a £270m deal in July 2023. During his time at Medica, Richard built an international finance and legal team at this fast growing highly profitable business that is UK market leader and a key provider to the NHS in the UK, the HSE in Ireland and to US based pharma clients.
Since mid-2024 Richard has been interim CFO at HSS Hire PLC, a UK based business services company helping the group in a period of business transformation.
Richard is currently on the Board of Alliance Pharma PLC, an AIM listed international consumer healthcare business which he joined in 2019 and became SID in early 2023. In mid-2024, he was also appointed NED at C4X Discovery, a private drug discovery business with material licensing agreements with major pharma and a pipeline of development candidates from its proprietary discovery technology. C4X was de-listed from AIM in 2024.
Before this, Richard gained extensive experience in the healthcare sector in his roles as CFO at UK AIM Listed companies Mereo BioPharma Group PLC and Shield Therapeutics PLC. At Mereo, he had a leading role in the merger with US listed OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc and Mereo’s dual listing on Nasdaq in 2019. At Shield, he established the finance operations and guided the company through several private financing rounds and its 2016 IPO.
His prior career in investment banking included senior positions at Investec and Brewin Dolphin Securities, where he advised mostly healthcare clients on a wide range of transactions and fundraisings, including IPOs, M&A and fundraisings. Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC in 1991
