Summary
Toby King is a veteran technology and enterprise leader with over a decade of experience building high-performance teams and commercialising regulated medical technologies. As CEO of iFAST Diagnostics he is bringing a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test to market that could cut current diagnostic times by an order of magnitude, and his track record includes founding and scaling medtech and energy businesses to successful exits and commercial traction. He combines hands-on product development and regulatory know-how with university-facing roles—teaching entrepreneurship and mentoring spinouts at the University of Southampton—to bridge academic innovation and industry impact. Known for stepping into small, high-stakes organisations, he repeatedly transforms early-stage science into funded, manufacturable products, and has a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge underpinning his technical leadership. An often-overlooked strength is his pattern of chairing and advising diverse boards, from science centres to gene-therapy manufacturers, which gives him rare fluency in strategy, governance and fundraising.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA MA PhD Engineering, BA MA PhD Engineering at University of Cambridge