CREATING OPERATING SYSTEMS

As Operating Partner for HealthTech at Oxford Science Enterprises, Katherine creates the operating systems that turn Oxford research into new companies. She leads the process that brings together academics with entrepreneurs in residence, matching world-class science and scientists with operators who know how to navigate the complexity of health systems.

In the earliest phase, she helps teams test ideas, map solutions against clinical needs and the real challenges that health systems are facing, and determine whether the data, economics, and regulation align to make a viable business.

When a concept shows promise, she helps to shape the business plan, define the proof points that matter, and build conviction across the team. As ventures approach term sheet and spin-out, she supports negotiations between academic founders, entrepreneurs, Oxford University, and OSE, keeping alignment and momentum as the company takes shape.

PROGRESS THROUGH UNDERSTANDING

What keeps her here is the same thing that drew her to healthcare in the first place: the belief that it is possible to improve our health systems globally by systematically adopting world-class science, technology, and innovation at scale, but that one can only do so by properly understanding health systems and what they are facing.

It’s a principle that runs through OSE’s HealthTech practice, building companies that deliver and scale Oxford’s science into everyday care.