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Leadership Team

Chief Executive Officer & Founder – Dr David Jay

David holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of Manchester and a GSK-funded Doctorate from the University of Durham. Subsequently, he was Founder/Director of a University of Durham spin-out company, before entering the world of executive recruitement in 2007. David set up David Jay Associates – an executive search firm – in 2017 where he specialised in board and senior executive appointments in the Life Sciences industry. He is a director, CEO, lead investor and co-founder of Orpheus Mind Technologies.

Strategic Consultant – Sally Baker

Sally Baker is a senior therapist, published author, and media commentator who helps people change the emotional patterns that limit their lives. Drawing on neuroscience and decades of clinical practice, she works with the subconscious mind to safely rewire the protective strategies that once felt necessary but now hold people back. Her approach integrates the latest advances in neuroscience, specifically the Orpheus Decoupling Process and memory reconsolidation therapy, with customised practical tools that calm the nervous system, erase emotional triggers, and enable people to finally fulfil their potential.

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Group Medical Director – Dr Stuart Watson

Stuart is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University and Consultant Psychiatrist in inpatient services care with the NTW Foundation NHS Trust. He also works with the Clinical Research Network. In the North-East and North Cumbria, he is co-lead for mental health, and deputy industry lead (cross-specialty) with a lead role in investigator initiated trials and, nationally, he is workstream lead for commercial research.

Marketing Director – Lindsey Gardner-Penner

Lindsey is Director of Digital Media and Marketing and leads the digital marketing activities for Orpheus. Following University, she embarked on a career as a designer in the theatre arts. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Lindsey changed career. He experiences battling her own severe mental health issues which were precipitated by being the mother of a child cancer survivor, experiencing a decade of trauma, grief, and personal loss, brought Lindsey to Orpheus as a client. After having profound, life changing, personal success using the Orpheus Decoupling Process, she is dedicated to helping others find relief from life’s struggles through the use of this innovative, breakthrough intervention.

Group Technology Director – Bence Dragsits

Inventor – Tim Phizackerley

Tim holds a BEd (Hons) degree from Lancaster University and is a full-time mental health practitioner with an international reputation and client list.  His early career started as a computer analyst, working on government mainframe systems but, following an incredibly challenging period in his personal life during which he nearly lost his wife to terminal illness, he became fascinated by the human mind and its abilities. This experience led him to transition into clinical therapy and since that time he has constantly innovated. Emotional resilience, mindset, and ways to create emotional calm have been a focus of intense study for Tim and his work has been featured in the media and other publications. Tim led the development of the Orpheus Decoupling Process and is passionate about improving mental health provision.

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