Sarah Haywood became Chief Executive Officer of MedCity in December 2015, after fulfilling the role in an acting capacity and then as COO since MedCity's launch in April 2014.

Sarah is a graduate of the NHS Management Training Scheme in Wales and started her career in the NHS, working in a number of NHS Trusts, including Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust, before joining Novartis Pharmaceuticals Research as the Head of Operations for a neuroscience drug discovery unit, located on the UCL campus.

From there, Sarah joined the civil service and undertook a number of roles as a member of the Senior Civil Service, including leading the department for business Bioscience Unit before it became part of the Office for Life Sciences. Her last role in the civil service was leading the design and legislation for the extension of the right to request flexible working and the shared parental leave system. In January 2014 she joined London & Partners where she worked with Dr Eliot Forster to establish MedCity.

Sarah has a degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, a post graduate diploma in management and an MA in human resources management; she is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.