Frontier IP is pleased to announce the appointment of Shaun Claydon as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary with immediate effect.
Shaun is an ICAEW-qualified chartered accountant with extensive experience in corporate finance, scaling businesses, and delivering successful exits. He brings more than 20 years’ experience in senior financial leadership roles, including more than 15 years at board-level, with a focus on fundraising, mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), and growth strategy.
Shaun has held board-level positions in a number of private and public companies, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Actimed Therapeutics, where he co-led a Series B equity funding round securing a multi-million investment for clinical programmes. Prior to this Shaun served as Chief Financial Officer of Destiny Pharma for six years between 2018 and 2024. Before transitioning to executive roles, Shaun gained extensive experience in financial consultancy and senior corporate finance roles including at HSBC Investment Banking, BDO LLP, Evolution Securities plc and PwC.
He is currently a non-executive director of spirits group Distil plc.
Further to the announcement made by the Company on 6 November 2025, Jo Stent, previous Chief Financial Officer of the Group, has now stepped down from the Group’s Board. However, Jo will remain employed with the Group for an additional short period of time to ensure an orderly handover of responsibilities to Shaun and to provide additional support on both a corporate level and with certain portfolio companies.
Neil Crabb, Frontier IP Chief Executive Officer, said:
I am delighted to welcome Shaun to our Board of Directors and to the wider Group. Shaun brings significant expertise and experience, particularly in areas of key focus for our portfolio companies, including equity fundraising, IPOs and M&A. He will play a vital role in the next stage of our growth as we focus on developing our portfolio companies towards exit.
Shaun Claydon, Chief Financial Officer, said:
I am very pleased to be joining Frontier IP at this important stage of its development. I look forward to helping the Group and its portfolio companies realise their full potential. I look forward to working with Jo over the coming weeks to ensure a seamless handover of responsibilities.