NEXTMOVE SOFTWARE - Key Persons


Ingvar Lagerstedt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Engineer
Ingvar gained his Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. After a postdoctoral position at Yale University, Ingvar has worked and developed scientific software in a variety of roles at Oxford Molecular, Accelrys, ClearSpeed, EBI, and Eli Lilly.

John W. Mayfield

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Engineer
John Mayfield (né May) joined NextMove Software in 2014 after completing his PhD at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) under the supervision of Dr Christoph Steinbeck. In his spare time he is a release manager of the Chemistry Development Kit and documents improvements to this library on his blog, efficient bits.

Michael Blakey

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer
Michael gained his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Chemistry from the University of Southampton under Professor Jeremy Frey, joining NextMove in 2024. Outside of cheminformatics Michael is an active contributor for the PlayStation line of open-source emulators (pcsx2, rpcs3).

Rachael Pirie

Job Titles:
  • Senior Software Engineer
Rachael joined NextMove following a Ph.D in Chemoinformatics at Newcastle University, supervised by Dr Daniel Cole and Dr Stuart Hall. During her PhD she completed a placement at The Alan Turing Institute through their Enrichment Scheme.

Roger A. Sayle - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
Roger Sayle gained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before starting NextMove Software, Roger has worked at Glaxo-Wellcome (now GSK), Metaphorics LLC and OpenEye Scientific Software.