Roland is a Mentor, Investor and Company Director involved in a number of emerging biotech companies with a great understanding of the Polish Life Science Eco-System from the perspective of a Western practitioner.  He also holds the position of Entrepreneur in Residence at the Malopolskie Centre of Biotechnology in Krakow and is Executive Chairman of OncoTherics Limited.  He received a first-class honors degree from the University of Bath and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has now worked in the industry for approaching thirty years and was Chief Executive Officer of Lectus Therapeutics and Sense Proteomic Limited two UK based venture capital backed companies which he co-founded, built and sold. Earlier in his career Roland ran Research Groups at the Univer­sity of Oxford and University of Bristol where he published and patented in the life sciences. He has served on, or advised the boards of several European companies, VC funds and charitable organizations. In Poland he co-founded, and was until recently, a limited partner in Life Science Innovations Fund a VC fund specializing in life-science investment.  He has acted as an advisor to the National Centre of Research & Development and the Polish Development Agency predominantly though a specialist consultancy boutique he created called Life Science Biznes Consulting LSBC Sp. z o.o.