About Us

SpringHill is a private equity fund management company specializing in the field of life sciences, focusing upon early stage investments and development capital.

The SpringHill team has extensive scientific and technical knowledge of this highly complex and challenging industry. In addition, the team has a considerable degree of entrepreneurial and business expertise gained in life sciences companies in the US, Europe and Asia. These are companies the team members have personally created, managed, grown and listed as founders, investors, directors, mentors and executives.

Principals

Dr Kim Tan BSc, PhD, FRSM

Dato Dr. Kim Tan is the founder Chairman of SpringHill Management Ltd (UK), a specialist venture capital management company in biotech and pharmaceutical investments. SpringHill is also a pioneer in social venture capital investments, adopting an enterprise approach to tackling global poverty. Dato Kim is also Chairman of the NCI Cancer Hospital in Malaysia and a board director of a number of companies in Malaysia, India, the UK, South Africa and the USA. He is an advisor to a number of government agencies in Asia on biotechnology and chairs the Access to Capital Working Group for the Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) Life Science Forum. Kim Tan has a PhD in biochemistry and was the recipient of a PhD scholarship and four post-doctoral fellowships from the Medical Research Council (UK). He is the inventor of sheep monoclonal antibodies and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Kim Tan is a founding director of Transformational Business Network, the UK charity with social transformational businesses in developing countries, including the Kuzuko Game Reserve in South Africa. He was the former Chairman of Jubilee Action, the UK-based human rights organization working with street children in India, Africa, Philippines and Brazil.

Mr Cameron Denny MBA, FCCA, FCMA, MCT, MCIPS

He is a qualified Accountant with additional qualifications in Corporate Treasury and Procurement, as well as an MBA. He has worked in such blue chip companies as Nabisco, Nynex and Cable and Wireless, as well as being trained in KPMG. He spent 15 years in the Telecommunications industry, which included a period with one of the largest telecommunications companies in France, Intercomm, subsequently part of UPC, Europe's largest cable communications company. Prior to joining SpringHill he worked in the Public Sector. He has worked in the Middle East, the Caribbean, the USA, France and the UK. He has a degree in Biology specialising in Microbiology.