Neil Laycock, Chief User Growth Advisor

Neil is an accomplished leader in both the digital and healthcare markets. He was a key member of the PlusNet management team prior to its £67m sale to BT in 2006, later becoming PlusNet’s CEO. Neil moved to EMIS in 2011, initially as Managing Director of its consumer health information website www.patient.info, which he took from under 1 million unique website hits to over 18 million within 20 months. He then went on to run the EMIS Primary Care division, delivering software solutions to over 51% of the UK’s GP practices, represented the EMIS shareholding at the UK's largest online prescription pharmacy, Pharmacy2U.