Richard C.E. Morgan

FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Richard Morgan is a Managing Partner in Twiga Group LLC. He has played an active role in the development of over 40 life science and technology companies, including MediSense, Quidel, Celgene, Sequus and, most recently, Kromek Group, MotifBio, and Polarean Imaging.

Richard was a founder and Chairman/CEO of Vortech Data, acquired by Kodak. Vortech was a pioneer in the management of digital medical images and set standards which are still in use today.

Richard co-founded Celgene in 1987, serving as Chairman and CEO before recruiting a new CEO. He remained on the board for 20 years, serving on the Executive Committee and chairing the Compensation Committee until his retirement in 2008. He remained on the board for a further 10 years, serving on the Executive Committee and chairing the Compensation Committee until his retirement in 2008. He was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amphion Innovations plc. Prior to founding Amphion, Richard was a Managing Partner at Wolfensohn Partners LP which followed 15 years at Schroders plc, then a leading British merchant bank.

At Schroders Richard started as a financial analyst and later became a member of the main board of the merchant bank, initially in the investment division and then as head of the Schroder Strategy Group, which he founded. Under his leadership the Schroder Strategy Group gave strategic and financial advice to over one hundred corporations around the world.

Richard, a British citizen, was raised in Kenya and educated in England. He lived in New Zealand for a number of years and graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering, with First Class Honors, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he also did postgraduate research into materials science and aerospace structures, under an Open Scholarship. In 1982 he completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.