Advisory Board
International expertise.
Different disciplines, one table.
The advisory board brings together business experts from science, technology, finance, infrastructure, trade and diplomacy backgrounds.
Board Perspective
Experience designed to be read in layers—not compressed into a single screen.
Explore each profile as a focused full-screen composition. Longer biographies have been professionally condensed while preserving the substance of the existing Oxygene website.
DBio-medtech / Innovation
Dr. Farid Khan, BSc, MSc, PhD(Cantab).
A bio-medtech entrepreneur and innovator with a PhD in protein folding from the University of Cambridge and prior drug-discovery experience at GlaxoSmithKline.
The existing Oxygene profile describes his work across biologics, biostimulants, industrial biocatalysts, drug development, medication-adherence technology and AI-assisted drug repurposing. It also records fundraising from private and public sources, interdisciplinary collaborations, awards and media coverage.
ZInternational Finance / Technology
Zia
A UK-based entrepreneur whose experience spans IT hardware and software, marketing, distribution, international finance and business development.
His Oxygene profile describes work in merchant banking, commercial insurance, grant and soft-loan applications, negotiations with local and central government, ISO 9000 implementation, NGO board activity and business relationships across Europe, the Middle East and Far East.
BCapital Projects / International Business
Bastiaan Van Gent
An international executive with more than 25 years of experience across strategic analysis, capital projects, M&A, real estate infrastructure, joint ventures, tax and financial structures.
The existing profile identifies him as Vice President of the EUCNC, supporting EU operations and business opportunities for Chinese state-owned and privately owned enterprises, and describes media, mortgage-lending and real-estate ventures.
JSustainable Trade Zones / Asia
Jeremy
A seasoned C-level executive who has built businesses from inception and has extensive experience in Asia.
His Oxygene profile describes leadership of a specialist advisory group focused on Knowledge Based Sustainable Trade Zones, his role as Managing Director and Founder of One Asia Group, and professional affiliations connected to British, Australian and Indonesian business networks.
RDiplomacy / International Trade
Richard Webb MBE
A career diplomat in Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1965 to 2003.
The existing profile highlights extensive experience helping UK exporters market products and services overseas, with work through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and postings or activity spanning Russia, the Far East, West Africa, South America, the Caribbean and Australasia.
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