Nick Sangala - CEO

Nick is a Consultant Nephrologist at the Wessex Kidney Centre in Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth.  Dual qualified as a consultant in both Nephrology and ITU, Nick has 13 years experience as a doctor in the NHS.

As a clinician, he is particularly interested in improving the lives of patients requiring long-term dialysis - haemodialysis, home haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.  He is part of the Wessex Kidney Centre's home haemodialysis team, which is one of the biggest in the world.

Nick is also an active researcher in renal medicine focussing on improving the patient experience of haemodialysis and long-term outcomes.

His role within Ardia Digital Health includes the specification, approval, clinical governance and risk management aspects of both the company and its products.  He's also product evangelist and patient advocate, making sure that the goals are always focussed on improving care and patients' quality of life.

A commercially minded engineer, James has previously founded and grown two engineering-based start-up companies.

Gaining his engineering degree in 2001, James worked at Leeds University's Keyworth Institute on strategic product development projects with a global engineering company, leaving in 2005 to set up his first business.

James is a proponent of self care and shared care in enabling patients to take ownership of their own health.  He champions the role of technology in empowering patients by giving them access to easily digestible information and in improving the interface between patients and clinicians.

James is responsible for product design and development, information management, infrastructure and certification along with strategic elements such as scalability and the long-term vision.  He is also responsible for information governance and data protection.

James has extensive experience of commercial IP management and is the inventor of three patents.

Sashi graduated in Economics at Birmingham University and started her career with 5 years at Ernst & Young as a Strategy Consultant working across multiple industries.

She has since spent 10 years at Diageo PLC (FTSE 100) where she successfully launched two new digital businesses (B2B and B2C) from ideation through to launch. This included designing and implementing new operating models and running day to day operations. She is currently on the Global Sales Leadership Team.

Sashi is passionate about driving multi-functional digital transformation that puts users at the heart to deliver a step change in both performance and experience. Particularly important to her is driving change that has a positive social impact including healthcare.

Sashi is responsible for the longer term strategy and overall day to operations of MyRenalCare.