James Angus McDonald, Tim Cowper

James Angus McDonald has left the board of directors of Oxford Nanopore Technologies as well as the board of its daughter companies, the Genome Foundry and Metrichor, effective Dec. 13, 2018. He had been a director for Oxford Nanopore since 2010, for Metrichor since 2013, and for the Genome Foundry since 2015. McDonald was immediately replaced as director of all three companies by Tim Cowper, Oxford Nanopore's vice president of finance. Cowper joined the firm in 2012 and oversees its financial team and strategic supply chain operations. In addition, in November 2018, he was appointed as director of Oxford Nanopore Manufacturing, a new daughter company.