Dr Nicole Mather leads IBM’s Life Sciences consulting team across UKI and EMEA, which brings world-leading business, technology, and digital capabilities to innovative pharma and growing SMEs. Building on a vision to transform the future of health for patients, her teams combine a collaborative culture, innovative approaches, and technical depth to enable business transformation. IBM combines a trustworthy approach to AI and deep experience in data & hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver change, safely at scale. Working with IBM Research enables cutting-edge technologies and methods to be incorporated into client solutions across UKI and EMEA.

As Director of the Office for Life Sciences, Nicole shaped the UK ecosystem and health data environment and led the UK government on the development of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. Nicole is a Non-Executive Director of the Wellcome Sanger Centre and the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult and holds a DPhil, MSc, and MA from the University of Oxford.