Timothy Allsopp, Stéphanie Boissel, Catherine Bollard, Thomas Heathman, and David Williams

Timothy Allsopp is the founder and Managing Director of consulting and strategy firm, Consilium, UK. Until recently, he was the Head of Stem Cell & Cell Therapy Lead at Neusentis, a Pfizer research unit. Stéphane Boissel has experience in investment banking and the biotech immunotherapy space. Today, he is CEO of TxCell, France, which focuses on personalized T-cell immunotherapies. Catherine Bollard is President of the International Society for Cellular Therapy. She also leads a research laboratory focusing on the development of novel cell therapeutics as Director of the Program for Cell Enhancement and Technologies for Immunotherapy within the Children’s Research Institute of Children’s National Health System and George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, USA. Thomas Heathman has a PhD in regenerative medicine from Loughborough University, UK, and today is Business Leader in the Technology Development, Manufacturing Development & GTP Services, at PCT, a Hitachi Group Company, USA, a global contract development and manufacturing organization for the cell therapy industry. David Williams is Professor of Healthcare Engineering at Loughborough University, UK, and was founding Director of the Loughborough-led Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine. He was awarded an OBE for services to science and engineering in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2014.