Leadership Team

Scott Maguire

CEO

Scott spent 25 years as a life science banker, prior to venturing into the entrepreneurial world.

Prior to Wellford, he founded and built healthcare and life science companies which have all had a successful exit either through a trade sale or a public listing, including Nasdaq. All the exits generated significant shareholder value. Scott co-founded Wellford based on his puppy, Bozy, whose life was saved by cannabis.

David Hogg

COO

David is a co-founder of Wellford and he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the UK in the mid-90s and then spent the next 15 years in large corporates including a spell as Group Finance Director of a main board listed Plc in London. David joined a buy and build, private equity backed business in 2011 and has been involved with two PE backed businesses that have been exited successfully. With heavy exposure to M&A, banking relationships and building businesses, David brings the rigour to the financial discipline of operations in his role as COO.

Joshua Roberts

Chief Business Officer

Joshua is a co-founder of Wellford, he spent 11 years at Highbridge Capital Management in New York and London, focused on trading and business development for the statistical arbitrage desk.

At Wellford, he oversees the investor relations, marketing & product development of the company.

Richard Lunney

MD of Therismos UK

Richard has over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. He started his career at GlaxoSmithKline where he spent more than a decade working across New Product Supply and R&D before moving on to run global operations at Britannia a speciality pharma business.

Richard is responsible for Therismos’ Pharma’s European pre-wholesale business and for the companies UK CBPM business.

Josh Adler

COO of Aqualitas

Josh has extensive experience in manufacturing and brings a wealth of experience in increasingly responsible roles in production, project management and quality assurance.

He has a strong economic and statistical background in manufacturing and the implementation of integrated facility management systems, budgeting and forecasting. Josh successfully commissioned a production facility and led construction crews in progression planning and execution. He has developed and implemented integrated lean manufacturing in conjunction with CPP/HACCP, GMP and organic certification principles and in relation to quality, food safety and sanitation.