DR NICOLE MATHER

Executive Partner, Life Sciences Lead | IBM Services

Dr Nicole Mather leads IBM’s Life Sciences consulting team in the UK, which brings world-leading business, technology and digital capabilities to innovative pharma and growing SMEs. IBM deploys deep expertise enabling digital reinvention, bringing leading capabilities across digital strategy, analytics, cognitive technologies and cloud technology solutions.

As Director of the Office for Life Sciences, Nicole shaped the UK ecosystem and health data environment and led for UK government on the development of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy and first Sector deal, focusing on the creation of new UK industries in the UK such as Genomics, Digital Health and early diagnosis.

Before IBM, Nicole worked at Deloitte and AT Kearney, providing strategy consulting across Health and Life Sciences from Big Pharma and Med Tech to SMEs and national policy. Nicole is a NonExecutive Director of the Wellcome Sanger Centre and the Health Research Authority and holds a DPhil, MSc and MA from the University of Oxford