Carmine Circelli Director, Life Sciences - Direct and Co-investments

Carmine joined British Business Bank in January 2021 from the Northern VCTs, a generalist scaleup investor, where he focused on life sciences investments. Prior to this Carmine was an Investment Executive in the technology ventures team at the Development Bank of Wales. He also has university intellectual property commercialisation experience from his time with Cambridge Enterprise. Carmine holds a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from the University of Manchester.  Within his current role as Investment Director, Life Sciences in the Bank’s Direct and Co-investment team, he has led the development of direct life sciences investment at the Bank, building a portfolio of 18 companies.