Meet the Team

Meet the team

The people behind what we do.

A specialist team combining decades of experience across diagnostics, healthcare transformation, laboratory operations, procurement, contract management and engineering and technology commercialisation.

5 Team members
8 Areas of expertise
1 Shared focus
Combined experience

Expertise across the diagnostic pathway.

01 NHS strategy & transformation
02 Laboratory operations
03 Procurement & contract management
04 Engineering & automation
05 Clinical diagnostics & health economics

Specialist experience. One integrated team.

Chris Fourie 01

Chris Fourie

Managing Director

Antti Leino 02

Antti Leino

Director

Peter Mullin 03

Peter Mullin

Chairman

Gabriel França 04

Gabriel França

Director

Jonathan Wickens 05

Jonathan Wickens

 

Chris Fourie
Team profile · 01

Chris Fourie

Managing Director

Chris is an industry expert and business consultant with more than 20 years experience in pathology. He gained global exposure with LTS Health and joined Lifecycle in 2019 to focus on improving services in the UK and Ireland, where he continues to work on major change programmes, both in public and private sector pathology laboratories. Specific interests include national and regional change efforts, restructuring and operational design of pathology as well as the long-term impact of technology. He is always on the lookout for innovative ways to solve complex problems and has developed a real interest in how data is used to plan and manage services better.

Antti Leino
Team profile · 02

Antti Leino

Director

Antti has over 16 years of international experience across consulting, engineering, and management disciplines, with a strong focus on healthcare and diagnostics. He specialises in procurement management, delivering end-to-end laboratory projects from setting the strategy through all tender stages to contract signature and performance management. Additional areas of expertise include business case development and process-based design.

Gabriel França
Team profile · 04

Gabriel França

Director

Gabriel graduated in Manufacturing Engineering (BSc) and is trained in Lean, Six Sigma, and Project Management. He specialises in operations design and has more than 16 years of experience serving clients and organisations in performance improvement, business analytics, process simulation and automation, layout design, and logistics. The first half of his career was developed through the car manufacturing supply chain, and the past 8 years have been spent working in Pathology diagnostics in the UK, Europe, and the Americas.

Team

Leadership and specialist experience.

Peter Mullin
03 · LIFECYCLE

Peter Mullin

Chairman

Jonathan Wickens
05 · TEAM

Jonathan Wickens

 

Combined expertise

One team. Deep diagnostic experience.

01 NHS Strategy
02 Laboratory Operations
03 Transformation
04 Procurement & Contracts
05 Engineering & Automation
06 Clinical Diagnostics
07 Technology Commercialisation
08 Health Economics
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