Professor Karol Sikora is the Medical Director of Cancer Partners International. He was the founding director of Rutherford Health, a network of cancer centres with proton facilities. He was the founder of Cancer Partners UK which has created UK’s largest independent UK cancer network with private equity and now part of Genesis Care. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cancer Medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine and is still Consultant Oncologist at Hammersmith Hospital, London. He was seconded to be Director of the WHO Cancer Programme in 2000.