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About the TTP

Mary Anne Cordeiro leads a team of collaborators including product design specialist, Wideblue, East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) and University Hospital of Birmingham (UHB) to develop a novel transfer device, the TTP. The project over the past 5 years has been part funded by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) and private angel investors.

Our Team

Mary Anne Cordeiro

Founder & CEO

Russell Overend

Design and Manufacture

Advisory Board

Professor Sir Keith Porter

Dr Jeremy Mauger

Mark Kirby

East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)

NIHR Trauma Management MedTech Co-operative

Wideblue

Corporate Partners

Bloodstone Division LLC

Fenton Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Mary Anne Cordeiro

Founder & CEO

Mary Anne Cordeiro is the Founder and Managing Director of Science to Business. She leads the consortium of collaborators and is one of the inventors of the TTP.

Mary Anne has a 25-year track-record in the commercialisation of early-stage healthcare companies and bringing new products to market.

She has been NED since 2005 of the Albion Capital group, one of the leaders in healthcare investment. Prior to that Mary Anne had a fifteen-year career as an international corporate financier with Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust and Paribas. 

Mary Anne holds an MA Hons (Oxon) degree in Chemistry.

Russell Overend

Design and Manufacture

Russell Overend is Co-founder of Wideblue Ltd which specialises in the design and manufacture of new medical devices. He founded Wideblue as an MBO in 2006 which, as CEO, he grew to 25 staff and annual turnover of £3million.

He recently sold Wideblue to the devices manufacturer Pivot International headquartered in Kansas City, USA and was retained in a part-time advisory capacity.

Russell led the Wideblue team that designed and manufactured the TTP. He is a Physicist and has implemented ISO9001/ISO13485 for Wideblue.

Prior to setting up Wideblue, Russell held positions of project manager, quality manager, production manager and R&D technologist in large multinationals (Polaroid, Pilkington, Thales) in the UK and USA.

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.

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.

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

Wideblue

Wideblue is a product design firm including experts who design a broad range of technology-based products for medical, consumer, and industrial applications. Wideblue has collaborated on the ThermoTraumaPort project to develop this pioneering medical device.  The Wideblue team, led by Barry Warden, includes mechanical, electrical, firmware and medical device engineers, working together to advance revolutionary developments in healthcare. To find our more, visit www.wide-blue.com

Bloodstone Division, LLC (“Bloodstone”)

Primary Distributor in US and Canada

Bloodstone is staffed by a dedicated veteran team inspired to make it better for the next generation of war fighter medics and EMS providers. To this end, the company currently holds distribution for over 100 medical and rescue companies worldwide. Team members, led by David Spence, have many years of direct and relevant past performance in the configuration management and fielding of all components that make up US, Canadian and Norwegian programmes.

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.