techUK Health and Care Summit 2025

Gayle Curry

Partner, Mills & Reeve

Gayle is a senior business lawyer with specialist interest in healthtech solutions who loves working with businesses that improve health and social care outcomes and empower people.

Gayle helps businesses achieve their growth plans through innovative collaborations, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, grant funding agreements, and trading terms and conditions with customers and suppliers including universities and the NHS.

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Will Goddard

Managing Director & Health and Social Care Council Member, Big Health

Will is Managing Director at Big Health, the UK-founded digital therapeutics SME whose mission is to make psychological treatment as scalable as pharmaceuticals.

Big Health’s flagship treatment Sleepio (for insomnia) secured first-of-its-kind NICE guidance in May 2022, recommended as more clinically effective than standard of care and cost-saving for the NHS. Sleepio is nationally commissioned in Scotland where it has been accessed by over 70,000 patients, and secured FDA clearance in August 2024. 

Big Health's treatment pipeline includes Daylight (for anxiety), which is undergoing real-world health economic evaluation in NHS primary care services in Yorkshire & the Humber, and Spark (for depression), which has undergone its first RCT with strong clinical outcomes.

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Charlotte Lewis

Principal Associate, Commercial Health, Mills & Reeve

Charlotte is a specialist in commercial health with a passion for innovation. She loves to work with clients who are looking to break into new areas or do things differently.  

Charlotte advises the health and care sector on a wide range of commercial and corporate matters including corporate/contractual structures, new care models, and transformation programmes, as well as general commercial enquiries. She has a particular interest in healthtech and works with technology and digital companies operating within the sector. 

Charlotte has worked on pioneering transformation projects across the sector including the transfer of specialist clinical services between NHS Trusts in order to re-align services for the benefit of the entire population, resulting in a significant and positive impact on health outcomes. 

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Dr Rishi Das-Gupta

Chief Executive, South London Health Innovation Network

Rishi Das-Gupta is Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London. He has worked to improve healthcare, patient experience and outcomes for over 20 years in a variety of roles focused on shaping and implementing government policy, working with health and care providers and redesigning services. He is passionate about the use of technology to enable clinical and operational change and to empower patients to manage their own conditions. Rishi’s experience spans UK and US healthcare systems and he is a fellow of the Sciana programme collaborating with German and Swiss healthcare leaders. Prior to this role he has held executive roles at NHS trusts as CITO, Director of Innovation and as Director of Operations and worked as a medical doctor. Rishi also has experience working as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Company. In addition to his primary medical qualification (MB,BS), Rishi holds an MA in law (University of Cambridge) and an MBA (London Business School).

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Helena Zaum

World Wide Partner Development Specialist & Chair, Amazon

Helena has over 20 years experience working within the technology sector, aligned to public sector and health and social care.  Helena is passionate about ensuring services are collaborating effectively to support better outcomes for people in their day to day lives – as they move through public services, including the health and social care systems.  Helena is currently a worldwide partner development specialist at AWS, prior to which she worked at Sentinel Partners (a data & AI SME), for Microsoft and Accenture.  Helena firmly believes that the future health and wellbeing of the NHS and the population of the UK as a whole depends on much better integration with social care services, local government and local communities. 

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Kir Nuthi

Head of AI and Data, techUK

Kir Nuthi is the Head of AI and Data at techUK. 

She holds over seven years of Government Affairs and Tech Policy experience in the US and UK. Kir previously headed up the regulatory portfolio at a UK advocacy group for tech startups and held various public affairs in US tech policy. All involved policy research and campaigns on competition, artificial intelligence, access to data, and pro-innovation regulation.

Kir has an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA in both Political Science (International Relations) and Economics from the University of California San Diego.

Outside of techUK, you are likely to find her attempting studies at art galleries, attempting an elusive headstand at yoga, mending and binding books, or chasing her dog Maya around South London's many parks.

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