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About the TTP

Mary Anne Cordeiro leads a team of collaborators including East
Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA), University Hospital of Birmingham (UHB) and
University of Portsmouth (UoP) to develop a novel transfer device, the TTP.
The project over the past 8 years has been part funded by the National
Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) and private angel investors.

Our Team

Board Of Directors

Mary Anne Cordeiro

Founder & CEO

Ewan Philips

CFO

Mark Kirby

Non-Executive

Matthew Jones

Non-Executive

Other Executives

Nigel Pritchard

Head Of Product Development

Melissa Till

Head of Education & Training

Advisory Board

Professor Sir Keith Porter

Dr Jeremy Mauger

Stephen M Seay

East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)

NIHR Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative

University of Portsmouth

Corporate Partners

Mountain Horse Solutions

Fenton Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Mary Anne Cordeiro

Founder & CEO

Mary Anne Cordeiro is Founding CEO of TTP. She has led the consortium of collaborators which designed and developed the TTP. She has a 25-year track-record in the funding and commercialisation strategy for early-stage innovative healthcare businesses.

Mary Anne has 20 years’ experience in healthcare investment, recently as director of Seneca Growth Capital and previously at the Albion Capital group. Prior to that she had a 15-year career as an international corporate financier with Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust and Paribas.

Mary Anne holds an MA Hons degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.

Ewan Philips

CFO of TTP

Ewan is the CFO of TTP. He is a chartered accountant with a background in corporate finance. He is an expert in building, funding and executing growth plans for disruptive early-stage life science companies.

Ewan has spent over 20 years in C-level finance and strategic roles in the medical technologies industry, for both venture-funded and listed companies.

He qualified as ACA with Deloitte in 1990 and holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Dundee.

Mark Kirby

MedTech CEO and Chairman

Mark is an experienced MedTech CEO and Chairman having built and floated Profile Therapeutics on the stock exchange, subsequently acting as a Non-Executive for a number of high growth medical start-ups and serving as Chair of the NIHR i4i programme for 10+ years.

Matthew Jones

Board Representative for EAAA

Matthew is the board representative for EAAA, of which he has been CEO since July 2021 after 6 years as Director of Operations. EAAA is a charity providing advanced critical care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The charity’s research, audit, innovation and development (RAID) group is a leader in research amongst air ambulance charities. RAID monitors and continually improves the service and evidence-based care that EAAA provides.

Prior to working with EAAA, Matthew was the Chief Operating Officer at Norwich Research Park and was a Chartered Surveyor. He holds a Natural Sciences Master’s degree and an MBA.

Nigel Pritchard

Head Of Product Development

Nigel is a software solutions consultant specialising in data collection and data sharing products. An advocate of agile ways of working, close collaboration and open communication, his passion is to create new products that make a difference to the people using them.

Nigel has 30+ years’ experience in developing software products for the health, avionics and telecommunication sectors. Most recently, Nigel led the development of cloud and mobile applications that are used to share patient data in real time during emergency care triage and transportation. The data sharing technology developed by Nigel was internationally patented and part of a submission that received an Institution of Engineering and Technology innovation award.

Melissa Till

Head of Education & Training

Melissa has an expertise and passion for ensuring innovative life science products are utilized to enhance and improve clinical practice and patient outcomes. She is an expert in building, developing and executing educational programs for the most impactful implementation of new technology. Melissa has spent over 25 years in executive management and strategic roles in the medical technologies industry.

Professor Sir Keith Porter

Professor of Clinical Traumatology at UHB

Professor Porter was educated at St Thomas’s Hospital, London and was appointed Consultant Trauma Surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1986 now delivered at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he is Professor of Clinical Traumatology and until June 2018 the Clinical Director of the Major Trauma Centre. He is the clinical lead for injured soldiers returning to the UK for the last decade in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and was knighted in the 2010 Queen’s New Year’s honours list. He is Chair of the Trauma Care Council and co-editor of the journal “Trauma”.

Dr Jeremy Mauger

MStJ BSc MB BS FRCA FFICM

Dr Mauger has been a consultant anaesthetist for over twenty years with particular interests in pre-hospital care, paediatric anaesthetics and intensive care. He works with the East Anglian Air Ambulance and with his local BASICS scheme, the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service.

Stephen M Seay

Brigadier General Stephen M. Seay

Steve’s U.S. Army career culminated as Commanding General of US Joint Contracting Command, Iraq, where he was responsible for an operational budget of $18.4 billion for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Program Executive Officer, Simulation Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). He has over 40 years of direct senior-level leadership in operations, training, research, life cycle maintenance and integration of sophisticated high technology systems. Steve mentors University of Central Florida (UCF) students/student-athletes on leadership and career planning as well as serves as an Advisor on the UCF Pegasus Research Institute Advisory Board. He helped launch three entrepreneur small businesses from UCF Technology Incubator Launchpad. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Science degree from the North Carolina State University.

East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)

East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) is a charity providing life-saving hospital-level critical care 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year by air and road.  Its team of specialist doctors, critical care paramedics and pilots treat the most seriously ill and injured people in every medical emergency situation throughout East Anglia. Together, they bring the advanced skills, equipment and medicine directly to the patient in the fastest time possible. EAAA receives no regular government- or NHS-funding, relying almost entirely on public donations to raise the required £17m a year to develop and deliver the EAAA service.
To find out more, visit www.eaaa.org.uk.

NIHR Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative

The NIHR Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative hosted at University Hospitals of Birmingham (UHB) supports the development and testing of novel medical devices and technologies for use in the trauma care pathway. The team completed independent formative and summative human factors usability testing of the TTP with pre- and in-hospital clinical staff providing feedback to inform the design and usability of the product.
To find out more, visit www.traumamic.nihr.ac.uk

University of Portsmouth

Dr Joe Costello heads a team at the extreme environments laboratory which is world-renowned with partners that include the Ministry of Defence, RNLI and Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The researchers have experience in the understanding, evaluation and enhancement of people’s comfort, performance and survival in extreme environments such as cold/hot climates, high altitudes, humid jungles and rough seas. This has been applied to a range of activities including sport, product development, polar exploration, film and TV production and emergency rescue and military training.
To find out more, visit Extreme environments research group | University of Portsmouth

Mountain Horse Solutions

Mountain Horse Solutions is a division of Global Ordnance. Mountain Horse Solutions provides cutting-edge resources to mission-critical teams, serving both national security and military applications. The company is military-focused and understands the importance of:
1. Timelines; 2.  Accuracy; and
3. Communication.
To find out more, visit www.mtnhorse.com

Fenton Pharmaceuticals Ltd (“Fenton”)

Sole Distributor in the UK

Graham Hill formed Fenton 29 years ago. He has 41 years military medical experience and is a proud RNLI volunteer SAR Medic on The Thames Lifeboat at Chiswick. Fenton specialises in pre-hospital emergency care products, managing an extensive brand portfolio. Everything the company supplies is used to save lives in often difficult and pressured environments.  Fenton is a preferred supplier to the MoD, Ambulance services, Police, Fire and Rescue services as well as the RNLI.