Savva Kerdemelidis, CEO / Co-Founder

Savva is a New Zealand and Australian Patent Attorney with 20+ years international experience advising technology & biotech companies as in-house counsel. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in New Zealand and Lawyer in Queensland, Australia. He conducted his Master of Laws thesis on alternative incentives to the patent system for medical R&D and also holds a postgraduate degree in Animal Physiology, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Savva founded Crowd Funded Cures in 2013, a New Zealand charity to crowdfund medical prizes for low-cost therapies that lack incentives for development under the patent system. Public Good Pharma was incorporated in the United Kingdom in 2023 by Crowd Funded Cures as a social enterprise.