Charles Sermon

General Counsel and Business Development at Mereo BioPharma

Speaker

Charles is a co-founder of Mereo BioPharma Group. He has over 25 years’ experience in biopharmaceuticals and oversees legal and corporate development for the Company.

Charles began his career as a lawyer at Freshfields in London specialising in corporate finance before joining the global financial services group, Nomura, in 1998 where he worked for Nomura’s life science investment team investing in biotechnology companies in the US and Europe.

Prior to joining Mereo in 2015, Charles was part of Phase4 Partners’ MBO from Nomura.

Charles is currently a trustee of the Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity and he previously was on the board of the Mayor of London’s Digital, Creative, Science and Technology (DCST) Working Group, as part of the London Enterprise Panel. Charles holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Hull, UK.