Will Dracup

Background

About Will Dracup

I founded and am the CEO of Turbinia Ltd and chair of TotalLab Ltd, two companies built around the application of software technologies in life science. I am also the driving force behind the Early Diagnostics Institute (EDI), a new way of doing applied clinical research on a massive scale, which we are looking to bring to the North East.(More on that one soon.) I founded and was the Chairman and CEO of Biosignatures Ltd until Jan 2019. I founded and was the Chairman and CEO of Nonlinear Dynamics Ltd, which we sold to Waters, Inc. in 2013. An Economics graduate and software engineer, I became interested in the analysis of protein separations after working for a Life Science imaging company. Deciding that the available technology was inadequate, I initially founded Nonlinear in 1989, a business with a worldwide reputation for supplying the very best software in quantitative proteomics. In 2007 we created a spin-out from Nonlinear, Biosignatures which uses the technology developed in Nonlinear and protein separation technologies to find diagnostics and prognostics for diseases for various diseases. Since this time we have invested heavily in the research and development of a portfolio of data management tools, proteomic sample analysis capabilities and clinical biomarker IP. In 2004, I was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Immunodiagnostic Systems (IDS), stepping down late 2009 as IDS and Biosignatures were embarking on a commercial relationship. Over the years I have received the North East Executive of the Year award, was the Goldman Visiting Professor of Business Innovation at Newcastle University, and Visiting Professor of Human Proteomics at Sunderland University.