Ajan Reginald was born in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka and while he was just five; his family got to migrate to England due to his father’s professional commitment as a doctor in the NHS. His father is a medical school lecturer in the University of Warwick and his mother works as a professional clinical psychotherapist. Their family shifted to Coventry and while Reginald Ajan joined King Henry School for his primary education, he secured a scholarship to the Rugby School. Ajan Reginald then went on to study dental surgery at the famous London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (University of London) and finished up with his graduation in the year 1996. During his days in his school and university, Ajan Reginald went on to play hockey in England, Holland, and Germany and participated in the English Premier National League.
Once finished up with his education at the university level, Reginald Ajan started his practice as dentist at a clinic in London and then moved to the Coventry city in the same profession. Unfortunately, Ajan Reginald has to take voluntary retirement from dentistry once he got diagnosed with a visual impairment out of a severe hockey injury.
After taking retirement from dentistry, Ajan Reginald started his retraining in Business and Management and got rewarded with the UK Fulbright Scholarship in the year 2002. Ajan Reginald then completed his MBA from Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University in 2004 whilst securing a scholarship in Biotechnology. He then started working with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a summer intern in 2003 and continued his part time work through Business school to further fund his education part.
Whilst he was working at BCG, Ajan Reginald secured high end expertise in Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property in US and Europe regions. It was right then when one of his clients, Roche Pharmaceuticals based in Basel, asked Ajan Reginald to join them at their Business Development division. Ajan Reginald made his mark as a perfect deal maker whilst also winning the Roche Gold Olympiad in 2007. He then got promoted as a Global Head of Emerging Technologies for Roche Group Research, where his main focus was to identify the most significant new medicines, involving cell and gene therapies and other breakthrough technologies.
Once he got through with his 5 years of re-training, Reginald Ajan got restarted with his passion towards hockey and gave training to some of the junior players in the process. He then played in many top-level national leagues and also represented England (over 40s) in 2014 whilst also playing the 2016 World Cup.
EDUCATION
· King Henry VIII, Coventry; 1983 – 1988.
· Rugby School; 1988 – 1990.
· The University of London – The London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry – Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS); 1991 – 1996.
· Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management – Master of Business Administration (MBA), Biotechnology; 2002 – 2004.
· The University of Oxford – Master of Science (MSc), Experimental Therapeutics; 2014 -2015.
· Harvard Business School – Advanced Management Program (AMP); 2017.
CAREER
· Dentist; 1996 – 2002.
· The Boston Consulting Group; 2003 – 2005.
· Roche Pharmaceuticals – Business Development Director-; 2005 – 2007.
· Hoffmann La Roche – Global Head of Emerging Technologies; 2007 – 2009.
· Celixir (formerly Cell Therapy Limited) CEO, Co-Founder; 2009 – Present.
PRIZES WON
· Rugby School Scholarship – 1988
· Fullbright Scholarship – 2002
· Kellogg Business School Biotechnology Scholarship – 2004
· Roche Gold Olympiad Prize – 2007
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