Jenny Longmore PhD FBPhS
Founder & Director
Jenny has 35 years experience across the pharmaceutical, charitable and academic and sectors, mainly focusing on neuroscience but more recently in broader areas. Currently Jenny serves as Director of Research with Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust where for example, she has worked with fund raisers to support the Personalised Breast Cancer Progamme (led by Prof Caldas) which was included in the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's review of genome medicine in the NHS.
Jenny previously served as as 'Director of Research and Programmes, Europe', 'Strategic Fundraiser' and 'Director of Research' with Autism Speaks and Autistica. Her role with these influential charities spanned a period of profound global change in recognition of the needs of people with autism. This included Jenny making presentations to the UK and European Parliaments, helping set up the British Autism Study of Infant Siblings and contributing the WHO's mhGAP Invention Guide.
Prior to moving into consultancy Jenny was a senior scientist with Merck and acquired an unusually broad insight into drug discovery and development making key contributions to two new products - Maxalt® and Emend®. For Maxalt® she was part of the worldwide launch team and helped develop Key Opinions Leaders.
Jenny graduated with Special Honours in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Sheffield and gained her PhD and post-doctoral experience at the University of Manchester. She is a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society. .
Our team
Hilary Gilfoy
Adium Associates
Hilary has a long background in research-based sales and marketing activity across a range of sectors. Between 2005 and 2010 she was chief executive of Autistica, the first UK charity dedicated to raising and investing funds in research into the causes and treatment of autism. She took this role with a start-up charity after helping to secure the future of the local respite centre for disabled children as its fundraising trustee.
Hilary has both BA and MPhil degrees from the University of Leeds. She spent her early career in the fast-track graduate scheme of the UK Civil Service, before joining the information technology (IT) industry where she progressed initially into sales management and then into marketing.
Using the experience gained as head of marketing for three widely differing information services companies she set up her own marketing consultancy where she specialised in market research and analysis to support the strategic planning of major national and international IT companies. She was one of the first analysts to predict the growth potential of IT outsourcing and to steer her clients toward it.
Hilary has also been a non-executive director of the Leicester Royal Infirmary NHS Trust and a non-executive director and vice chair of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford.
She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.