Summary
James Malone is a seasoned technology executive with 17 years of experience building AI-driven platforms at the intersection of life sciences and semantic technology, now serving as CEO of Luvida. He has led product and engineering organisations at companies such as BenevolentAI, SciBite, BenchSci and Logically, scaling teams that turn multi-modal data and language models into knowledge graphs and actionable insights. His background spans bioinformatics, ontology engineering, NLP and machine learning, grounded in a PhD in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning and an MSc from Oxford. James combines deep technical hands-on experience (ontology tooling, graph tech and explainable AI) with fundraising, go-to-market and external-facing leadership. He has a track record of founding and exiting startups and embedding semantic approaches into enterprise drug discovery and trust-in-information platforms. Based in Cambridge, he uniquely bridges academic AI research and practical productisation for regulated life-science applications.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Bioinformatics, MSc Bioinformatics at University of Oxford
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Bioinformatics and Machine Learning at University of Sunderland