Full Name

Chris Wigley

Job Title

Chief Operating Officer

Company

PhysicsX

Speaker Bio

Chris Wigley is Chief Operating Officer at PhysicsX, where he oversees global growth as the company scales its AI-native engineering platform across advanced industries. Chris brings deep experience at the intersection of frontier technology, data, and large-scale systems. He is the former CEO of Genomics England, bringing cutting-edge genomics research into routine clinical care for healthcare diagnostics and biotech research. During the pandemic, Chris was the national lead for the COVID data platform at NHSX and oversaw a major research program into the genomic drivers of COVID severity. Previously, Chris served as Chief Operating Officer at QuantumBlack, an advanced analytics and AI business, and as a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Earlier in his career, Chris worked for the UK Foreign Office in counter terrorism analytics in Afghanistan and Pakistan post 9/11. He lives in London with his wife Tara, three teenagers, and Molly the dog.