Title: Northwood Implants Limited
1Northwood Implants Limited
- Creating new medical treatments with
bio-compatible implants - Richard Malczyk
- Managing Director
2Our First ApplicationThe Problem Prominent Ears
- A psychologically distressing condition
- Patients suffer
- Teasing/bullying
- Loss of self-esteem
- Lack of self-confidence
- Most would prefer not to have them
3Ear Correction todays approach
4Ear Correction todays approach
5Ear Correction todays approach
6Post-surgery complications
7Ear Scaffoldswww.earscaffolds.com
- A new minimally-invasive surgical approach to
correct prominent ears - Ear Scaffolds transform a complex 1.5 hour
surgical operation into a 10 min outpatients
procedure
8How Ear Scaffolds work
9How Ear Scaffolds work
10Patient FeedbackEar Scaffolds
- 100 preference for Ear Scaffolds
- Key reasons
- Less Surgery
- Faster recovery
- Quicker procedure instant results
- Wider patient spectrum
- 5050 male to female
- 50 aged below 18 (rest up to age 60)
- Low price sensitivity (other factors more
important)
Based on direct market research undertaken with
100 patients
11Target CustomersCosmetic Surgeons Clinics
- 3 out of 4 surgeons willing to try it
- Key reasons
- Quicker procedure
- Less complex
- Less patient trauma
- 42 believe demand may increase
- Significant cost reduction in fees (34)
- Positively received by top UK cosmetic surgery
centres - Transform Medical Group
- Spire Health
- Nuffield Health
- BMI Health group
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Based on direct market research undertaken with
270 UK surgeons 66 clinics
12UK Cosmetic Surgery Market
- UK Market Growth
- 42 in 2005
- 53 in 2006
- (Key Note Jan 2007)
- 42 in 2006
- 49 in 2007
- (Mintel Nov 2007)
- 534 growth - last 5 years
- Market value 900M in 2007
- Forecast to grow to 2.5Bn by 2011 (Mintel Nov
2007)
Less invasive surgical techniques are driving
growth (Mintel Nov 2007)
13Market PotentialProminent Ear Correction
- Approx 5 to 10 of the human population has
prominent ears
Ear Scaffolds potential could be 10x or even 100x
current demand by appealing to the majority.
(Analogy Teeth brace)
14UK Market DistributionCosmetic Clinics
Spire, BMI, Nuffield
Transform Medical Group 200 independents
Healthcare Commission Licensing
15Competition current methods
External Splints
Otoplasty surgery
Ear Scaffolds
- Broad age range (7 yrs)
- Treats wide range of ear deformity
- Flexibility via different techniques
- Instant results predictable outcome
- Patient choice
- Less patient trauma
- Lower complication rate
- Relatively low cost
- Non-invasive
- Limited application
- Lengthy treatment period
- Low compliance rate
- Unreliable
- Heavily dependant on surgeon skill experience
- Risky high post-op complication rate
- Outcome not guaranteed
- Foreign body
- May not fix extreme ear deformity
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16IPR Position
- National patent applications derived from
WO2007/0232964 covering EU and 11 other key
national economic territories - IPR search confirms no barriers to commercial
exploitation - Extension of IPR portfolio will occur with
further RD
17Business Model Partnership Approach
- Northwood Implants promotes licences a novel
ear correction procedure - Limited access to Ear Scaffolds available only to
licensed Practitioners - Training/Certification Fee
- Fee per procedure
- (Ear Scaffolds accessories provided inclusive)
- Quality controls, practitioner approval device
distribution controlled by Northwood Implants
18Partnership ModelBusiness Forecast
19Business Model Partnership Approach
- Pros
- Potentially higher profit
- Protected market pricing
- Greater control over procedure quality
availability - Lower-skilled practitioners possible
- Cons
- Unproven no precedents
- Growth is constrained by ability to train new
practitioners - Requires monitoring controls
- Potential abuse of inclusive pricing
20Financials
Product Development Phase
Market Development Phase
- High Gross Margin
- Breakeven achieved by end of 1st year of sales
- Investment recovery within 2 years of starting
sales - Profit triples in the last 2 years
21RD DevelopmentCosts Timescales
Design development
Tox
Animal Study
Human Study
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Total 1.07M
200k
Costs
420k
450k
22Funding requirement
23Partnerships
24Management Team
- Norbert Kang FRCS Inventor, Founder, CTO
- Extensive plastic surgery medical innovation
experience - Considerable clinical trials experience
- Strong links with private hospitals, NHS
surgeon community
- Richard Malczyk MBA CEO
- Business management experience (start-up,
marketing, finance, operations legal) - Programme management experience for new product
introduction - Global sales marketing experience
- Supported by
- Dr Paul Seabright of NHS Innovations East
Non-executive Director - Extensive IP management medical innovation
development/commercialisation experience - ANO of West Herts Hospital Trust Non-executive
Director - Extensive operational experience and contacts in
the health sector
25Milestones