Avacta Group Management

Management criteria checks 1/4

Avacta Group's CEO is Chris Coughlin, appointed in May 2024, has a tenure of less than a year. directly owns 0.014% of the company’s shares, worth €30.85K. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 1.5 years and 0.3 years respectively.

Key information

Chris Coughlin

Chief executive officer

UK£53.0k

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	n/a
CEO tenure	less than a year
CEO ownership	0.01%
Management average tenure	1.5yrs
Board average tenure	less than a year

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO

Chris Coughlin (54 yo)

less than a year

Tenure

UK£53,000

Compensation

Dr. Christina M. Coughlin, also known as Chris, BS, MD, PH D., was Head of Research and Development of Avacta Group Plc from February 1, 2024 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer from May 01, 2024 and...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Christina Coughlin	CEO, Interim Chief Medical Officer and Director	less than a year	UK£53.00k	0.014% £ 30.9k
Tony Gardiner	CFO & Company Secretary	8.7yrs	UK£409.00k	0.0023% £ 5.0k
Emma Wright	Group In-House Counsel	no data	no data	no data
Michael Vinegrad	Group Communications Director	3.7yrs	no data	no data
R. Slater	Chief Operating Officer of Diagnostics	8.1yrs	UK£69.00k	no data
David Wilson	Chief Commercial Officer of Diagnostics	1.7yrs	no data	no data
Karen Harrison	Chief Operating Officer of Therapeutics Division	1.5yrs	no data	no data
Anne McGurk	Joint Managing Director of Launch Diagnostics	1.4yrs	no data	no data
Ian Jones	Joint Managing Director of Launch Diagnostics	1.4yrs	no data	no data
Simon Bennett	Chief Business Officer of Therapeutics	less than a year	no data	no data
Sebastien Goenen	Chief Operating Officer of Coris BioConcept	1.5yrs	no data	no data
Lena Kastl	Managing Director of Launch Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH	less than a year	no data	no data

1.5yrs

Average Tenure

54yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: RTQ1's management team is not considered experienced ( 1.5 years average tenure), which suggests a new team.

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Christina Coughlin	CEO, Interim Chief Medical Officer and Director	2.5yrs	UK£53.00k	0.014% £ 30.9k
Trevor Nicholls	Independent Non-Executive Director	11.1yrs	UK£47.00k	0.030% £ 66.3k
Darlene Deptula-Hicks	Non Executive Director	less than a year	no data	no data
Shaun Chilton	Non-Executive Independent Chairman	1.3yrs	UK£26.00k	0.011% £ 24.7k
Mark A. Goldberg	Independent Non-Executive Director	3.1yrs	UK£53.00k	no data
Paul Fry	Independent Non-Executive Director	4.6yrs	UK£47.00k	no data
Alan Ho	Member of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data
William Tap	Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data
Robert Metcalf	Member of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data
Andrea Napolitano	Member of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data
Lee Cranmer	Member of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data
Anthony Yu	Member of Scientific Advisory Board	less than a year	no data	no data

0.3yrs

Average Tenure

62.5yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: RTQ1's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 0.3 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.

Avacta Group Management

Management criteria checks 1/4

Key information

Recent management updates

Avacta Group plc Announces Board Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Board Changes

Avacta Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 26, 2024

Avacta Group plc Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Appointment of Christina Coughlin as Head of Research and Development and Resignation of Fiona Mclaughlin as Chief Scientific Officer

Recent updates

Avacta Group plc Reports Updated Phase 1 Data of Ava6000 At the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress Demonstrating Multiple Ongoing, Durable Responses in Solid Tumors

Avacta Group Plc to Report First Half, 2024 Results on Sep 30, 2024

Avacta Group plc Announces Board Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Board Changes

Avacta Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 26, 2024

Avacta Group plc Announces Successful Completion of First Cohort and Dosing of Three Patients of the Second Cohort in Arm 2 of Avacta's Ava6000 Phase 1 Trial

Avacta Group plc Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes

Full year 2023 earnings released: UK£0.091 loss per share (vs UK£0.15 loss in FY 2022)

New minor risk - Financial data availability

Avacta Group plc Reports Data from the Ongoing Phase 1 Clinical Trial of AVA6000 At the AACR Annual Meeting

Avacta Group Plc Announces Update on AVA6000 Phase 1a Clinical Trial Progress

Avacta Group Plc has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of £5.448474 million.

Avacta Group Plc has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of £5.448474 million.

Avacta Group Plc has filed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 20.560243 million.

Avacta Group plc Announces Appointment of Christina Coughlin as Head of Research and Development and Resignation of Fiona Mclaughlin as Chief Scientific Officer

Avacta Group plc Appoints Simon Bennett as Chief Business Officer of the Therapeutics Division

Avacta Group plc Provides Detailed Pre-Clinical, Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Data from the Phase 1A Dose Escalation Study

First half 2023 earnings released: UK£0.043 loss per share (vs UK£0.036 loss in 1H 2022)

New major risk - Financial position

Avacta Group Plc Announces Management Changes

Avacta Group plc Announces Successful Completion of ALS-6000-101 Sixth Dose Escalation

Avacta Group Plc to Report First Half, 2023 Results on Sep 28, 2023

New major risk - Share price stability

New major risk - Share price stability

Avacta Announces Successful Completion of Fifth Dose Escalation in Ava6000 Phase 1 Clinical Study

Avacta Group plc Appoints Shaun Chilton to the Board as Non-Executive Director

Avacta Group Plc (AIM:AVCT) acquired Unknown minority stake in AffyXell Therapeutics Co., Ltd. from Daewoong pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd (KOSE:A069620).

Avacta Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 28, 2023

Avacta Group plc acquired Coris Bioconcept SRL for £10.4 million.

Full year 2022 earnings released: UK£0.15 loss per share (vs UK£0.11 loss in FY 2021)

Avacta Group plc Announces Successful Completion of Fourth Dose Escalation in AVA6000 Phase 1 Clinical Study

High number of new and inexperienced directors

Avacta Group Plc (AIM:AVCT) conditionally agreed to acquire Launch Diagnostics Holdings Limited for £37 million.

First half 2022 earnings released: UK£0.036 loss per share (vs UK£0.041 loss in 1H 2021)

Avacta Group Plc to Report First Half, 2022 Results on Sep 29, 2022

Avacta Group plc Announces Phase I Study of AVA6000 Advances to Fourth Cohort

High number of new and inexperienced directors

Avacta Group Plc announced that it has received funding

Avacta Group Plc Announces Second Dose Escalation in the Phase I Clinical Study of AVA6000 Pro-Doxorubicin

Avacta Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 23, 2022

Avacta Group Plc Relocates its Therapeutics Division to New Headquarters at Scale Space, in Imperial College's White City Campus, London

Less than half of directors are independent

Full year 2021 earnings released: UK£0.11 loss per share (vs UK£0.084 loss in FY 2020)

Avacta Group Plc to Report Fiscal Year 2021 Results on Apr 06, 2022

Avacta Group Plc to Report Fiscal Year 2021 Results on Apr 06, 2022

Avacta Announces Dose Escalation in the Phase I Clinical Study of AVA6000 Pro-Doxorubicin

Avacta Group plc Selects Second Pre|Cision™ Pro-Drug Candidate for Development

Avacta Group plc Provides Update on AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Lateral Flow Test and Detection of the Omicron Variant

Avacta Group Plc Announces AffiDX® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Lateral Flow Test Has Received A CE Mark for Use as A Consumer Self-Test in the UK and EU

Avacta Group Plc Announces AffiDx® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Lateral Flow Test Detects the Omicron Variant

Avacta Group plc Announces US Food and Drug Administration Approval of IND Application for AVA6000

First half 2021 earnings released: UK£0.041 loss per share (vs UK£0.037 loss in 1H 2020)

Avacta Group Plc Announces Pre-Clinical Development Milestone in LG Chem Life Sciences Partnership

Avacta Group plc Provides Update on AffiDX Lateral Flow Test

Avacta Announces Registration of its AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Lateral Flow Test in EU

MHRA Confirms Registration of Avacta’s Affidx® SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Lateral Flow Test

Avacta Group plc Provides an Update on Lateral Flow Test Regulatory Submissions

Full year 2020 earnings released: UK£0.084 loss per share (vs UK£0.092 loss in FY 2019)

Full year 2020 earnings released: UK£0.084 loss per share (vs UK£0.092 loss in FY 2019)

Avacta Signs Diagnostic Licensing Deal with Biokit

Avacta Group plc Announces its AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Antigen Lateral Flow Test Detects the Dominant New Variants of the Coronavirus

Avacta Announces Phase 1 Clinical Trial Authorisation (CTA) for AVA6000 Approved by MHRA

New 90-day high: €2.12

Avacta Group plc Announces Results of Initial Evaluation of Sars-Cov-2 Lateral Flow Antigen Test with Clinical Samples

Avacta Group plc Enters into Commercial Partnership with Mologic Ltd

Avacta Announces Collaboration Agreement with Bruker

Avacta Group plc Announces License Agreement with Point Biopharma Inc

Avacta Submits Clinical Trial Application for Ava6000 Pro-Doxorubixin