About Us

Alexandra Wyke

Founder and CEO

Alex is CEO and founder of PatientView, which she founded in 2000. From 1996 to 2000, Alex was Managing Editor and creator of The Economist Intelligence Unit's international healthcare publishing section. Before that, she was business and science correspondent for The Economist. Her most recent publication for The Economist Intelligence Unit was The Future of Healthcare, published by the EIU in March 2011 (and was sponsored by Janssen. Alex has a PhD in biochemistry from St George’s Medical School, London. She is married with one son.

Alix Naylor

Data Analyst

Alix formed Naylor Research Partnership in 2021 after working as a freelance statistician for more than a decade, undertaking data analysis for a diverse range of private and public sector organisations, in areas such as employee wellbeing, consumer satisfaction and intervention studies. Clients include Social Life, People’s Health Trust and market research company Lumivo. End users include Spotify, University College London and Manchester City. Alix also runs IBM certified training courses in statistics and SPSS programs.

Clive Nead

Editorial Director

Clive is our editorial director. He has over two decades of experience as an editor of business publications. Before joining PatientView in 2000, he built up a large portfolio of work for a number of companies, including Shire Hall Communications (now part of WPP), The Economist Intelligence Unit, Illuminations (Channel 4), and SmithKlineBeecham. His university background was in modern history, librarianship and information technology.

Henry Nead

Intern

Henry has gone back to college to gain the qualifications to study medicine having graduated in history and politics at Edinburgh University. Henry provides support at PatientView, specialises in background research, editing, database management, and assembling presentations. He also demonstrates myhealthapps.net at conferences and meetings.

Katie Wilson

Data management

Katie is a freelance Database and CRM Manager for PatientView, where she manages and develops the systems that keep data accurate, accessible, and meaningful. With over a decade of digital marketing experience across a range of industries, she brings a strong understanding of how technology and communication can work together to drive impact. She uses this expertise to strengthen PatientView’s data-driven approach, ensuring that patients’ voices remain central to healthcare research and helping to close the gap between pharmaceutical companies and health NGOs.

Mat Phillips

After more than 20 years with Johnson & Johnson and a decade on the Janssen Management Board, Mat has been responsible for brands and departments spanning biopharm, dermatology, women’s health, immunology, oncology, new business development, lifecycle management, CRM and Digital. He has worked for 2 MS charities and was Deputy Chair of the PM Society. In 2010, Mat founded the consultancy that has evolved into Rare Breed. Working closely with partner PatientView, Mat’s primary interests are helping companies develop patient-centred strategies, and supporting them to develop customer engagement strategies based on new and emerging technology.

Tony Newbold

Tony has more than 30 years of experience engaging with patients and caregivers across the lifecycle, from clinical trials and Real World Evidence, through to patient input into brand strategy, and patient support programmes. As a long-standing member of the PatientView team, Tony focuses on qualitative evidence, analysing the content from many thousands of diverse comments expressed by patient group respondents.

Cliff Naylor

Cliff is the other half of Naylor Research Partnership and is involved with data processing for PatientView. A former analyst at GCHQ, Cliff is a certified project management and award-winning people change practitioner with more than 30 years' experience working with a range of public sector organisations including law enforcement agencies, local authorities and charities. He also served three years in New York as a UK representative to the United Nations, specialising in human rights.