Ali Parsa PhD

Ali is a healthcare entrepreneur. During one of the worst economic downturns, he built Circle in a five year period to become Europe's largest partnership of clinicians, with some £200m of annualised revenue, near 3,000 employees and a successful IPO. Ali left in December 2012 to create babylon, which is seen as one of the most exciting developments in health innovation anywhere, with the potential to change our expectations and experience of healthcare. Prior to Circle, Ali was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. He was the recipient of the Royal Award for the Young Entrepreneur of the year in 1993 for founding his first business, V&G, and the healthcare Entrepreneurial Achievement in 2010. Ali was named by the Times among the 100 global people to watch in 2012, and by HSJ among the 50 most influential people in UK healthcare. Ali is the UK Cabinet Office Ambassador for Mutuals and has a PhD in Engineering Physics.