Precision medicine business builder with extensive global leadership experience; Pattern continues to extend its presence and expertise in oncology precision medicine
REDMOND, WA, January 8, 2024 — Pattern Computer®, Inc. (“Pattern” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian Walker to the Company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Walker is the founder of HQI, a start-up whose mission is to substantially improve foundational human health and wellbeing. Previously he served as International Business head for some of the leading oncology advanced diagnostics companies such as Guardant Health and Caris Life Sciences, bringing patients closer to the right cancer therapy through earlier and more accurate and complete diagnosis. He has also worked for several top 10 pharmaceutical companies including Roche, Novartis and AstraZeneca, in global, regional and country, commercial and development leadership roles spanning oncology, respiratory, cardiovascular, haemostasis, and therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostics. He read Chemistry at Imperial College London.
“We are very pleased to have Ian join our team as an advisor,” said Mark R. Anderson, Chair and CEO of Pattern Computer. “Ian is a precision medicine business builder with extensive P&L and global leadership experience, who has successfully built and led global and regional business units and teams to develop and introduce new drugs, devices, diagnostics and services for the benefit of patients worldwide.”
Mr. Anderson added, “We continue to broaden our team of world-class experts representing a multitude of disciplines, including mathematics, physics, computer science, data science, high performance computing, chemistry, bioinformatics, life sciences (drug discovery and diagnostics), intellectual property, and corporate strategy. The Advisory Board’s collective experience and counsel are of the utmost importance as Pattern moves from a Third Wave AI organization focused on generating high-value assets, to a company fully focused on capitalizing on those assets.”
Mr. Walker commented, “Throughout my career, I have leveraged my expertise to bring new health technologies to patients by formulating and driving innovative and operationally successful strategy through organizations, particularly by creating positive and performance focused culture, cross-functional team leadership and translating consumer and scientific insights into world class products and services. Pattern has developed a unique and highly productive approach to explainable AI and has already made substantial progress in proving the utility of their technology in healthcare, particularly in cancer. Most notably, they have identified several novel therapy combinations for patients with solid cancers and are now proving out their value in the clinic. I am excited to join the Pattern Advisory Board at this critical time to help bring their innovations to oncology healthcare professionals and patients across the World.”
About Pattern
Pattern Computer, Inc., a Seattle-area company, uses its proprietary Pattern Discovery Engine™ to solve the most important and intractable problems in business and medicine. Its proprietary mathematical techniques can find complex patterns in very-high-order data that have eluded detection by much larger systems.
As the Company applies its computational platform to the challenging fields of drug discovery and diagnostics, it is also making major Pattern Discoveries for partners in other sectors, including biotech, materials science, aerospace manufacturing, veterinary medicine, air traffic operations, and finance. www.patterncomputer.com.
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