Axia Medicine builds the infrastructure that enables care providers and industry partners to operationalise Precision Medicine at scale.

Our team includes recognised industry leaders in Precision Medicine, Drug Discovery, Health AI and more.

Meet the Team

  • Alessandro Riccombeni, PhD

    Founder and CEO

    Founded Axia to make personalised medicine real for every patient. Built AWS's precision medicine business and served as Microsoft's first National Genomics Officer.

  • Colby T. Ford, PhD

    Fractional CTO

    Computational biologist and cloud architect who builds secure, scalable infrastructure for multimodal health data. Author of Genomics in the Azure Cloud and four-time Microsoft MVP.

  • Andrew Roddam, PhD

    Advisor, Health Data Market


    Twenty-five years in drug development and real-world evidence. As Our Future Health's first CEO he built the team and one of the world's fastest-recruiting cohorts.

  • Maria Gimena Rabinad

    Advisor, Digital Health

    Fifteen years across digital health, market access and R&D. Spent eight-plus years at McKinsey advising pharma and MedTech, and led its UK Health Tech Network.

  • Kalon Hewage

    Advisor, Health Systems, UK


    Qualified surgeon with a decade in practice and a founder's track record across neural interfaces, remote monitoring and longevity. Co-founder of Ikeno Partners.Advisor, Health Systems, UK

  • Giovanni M. Dall'Olio, PhD

    Advisor, Data Architecture


    Bioinformatics and data engineering leader with a decade in drug discovery. Built one of GSK's first data lakes and led pipeline migration at BenevolentAI.

  • Emil Hewage

    Advisor, Precision Medicine


    CEO of BIOS and a former Cambridge computational neuroscience researcher. Leadership roles across five deep tech startups; Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT TR35 honoree.

  • Adam Somauroo

    Advisor, Digital Health


    Fifteen years across digital health, market access and R&D. Spent eight-plus years at McKinsey advising pharma and MedTech, and led its UK Health Tech Network.

  • Satoki Kawabata

    Advisor, Finance


    Strategy and finance professional with a decade in technology. Acts as Axia's fractional CFO, overseeing financial planning, business strategy and the equity story.

  • Jason Cohen, MD

    Advisor, US Health Systems


    Chief Medical Officer, Inpatient, at Qventus, where he directs a solution that automates discharge planning. Previously CMO at North Valley Hospital and a practising hospitalist.

Guiding Principles

AXIA Medicine's mission is to make Precision Medicine a reality for each patient, worldwide.

We build solutions that Care providers, researchers, and Innovators can trust at scale. These principles guide how Axia’s team design, builds and delivers for customers and partners.

  • We work with pharma and biotech companies to enable research, but with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of patients.

  • We create value by delivering systems that perform under real clinical, regulatory, and operational constraints, at scale.

  • We start from mission-critical problems faced by clinicians, researchers and industry teams, to deliver solutions that remove friction at scale.

  • We are lifelong learners who value clear thinking, strong feedback and continuous improvement, individually and as a team.

  • We earn trust through transparency, fairness, and accountability in how we build, partner and operate.

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