Member Bio
Lumino is a healthtech company, so what are we doing among the studios, agencies and creatives of BCI?
Once you know healthtech, you’ll know there’s a lot more to it than clinicians and researchers.
In our case, our clinical, academic and regulatory experts are far outnumbered by traditional and contemporary creative disciplines. We draw not only upon application development skills, but strategy, motion graphics, cinematography, audio recording and sound design, user experience design, translation and transcreation, visual identity development, writing, video editing and post production, lighting, studio production, hair and makeup and more. So, put that stethoscope down: healthtech, it turns out, is a highly creative pursuit.
We’re part of BCI because the creative industries are broader than the historical boundaries drawn around them (and, we think, suppressing them). We embrace those craft skills while challenging the perception that they belong only in “creative” shops.
Our view of contributing to this community means offering our senior professionals who between them bring decades of experience across the creative industries, strategic consultancy and building successful complex businesses from the ground up. We also know the fight for female founders. That shouldn’t be a thing, but it is and we’ll keep fighting until it isn’t anymore.
Commissioning and collaborating with creative talent is also central to our work, from our bases in Bristol and Glasgow, and beyond. Here in the south-west we work with both creative and technical partners, and we are committed to strengthening the ecosystem that sustains them.
Bristol’s creative and technical community has built something genuinely worth modernising and protecting. We’d like to be part of ensuring it remains open, ambitious and outward-facing enough to thrive.
This is what creative industry means now.
Lumino: For better care. For all.
We are making support more affordable and easier to access by redesigning how health treatment is delivered. Lumino is combining a strong focus on clinical outcomes with engaging experiences for users.
Seren: the digital therapeutic for menopause
Menopause symptoms, such as hot flushes, anxiety, night sweats, and sleep issues can persist for seven years or more. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can help with significant symptoms, but access is limited. Introducing Seren, Lumino’s first digital therapeutic: a menopause-specific CBT programme available at scale.
- Key creative technical partners: High Tide; Aer Studios
- Funders: Scottish Government; the NHS in Scotland; Bayer Consumer Health; NIHR; Innovate UK; Contracts for Innovation Cymru.
- Health system partners: CivTech, Chief Scientist Office, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Golden Jubilee; Health Innovation East.
- Academic advisors: Centre for Mood Disorders at the University of Exeter; Digital Health Validation Lab at the University of Glasgow; Entrepreneurship Centre at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Creative contributors
Here are some of the obscenely talented individual craftspeople who have brought huge creative impact to our work to date, and doubtless would to yours too:
- Bjoern Altmann: brand designer, typographer, timepiece illustrator and more besides.
- Chloe Collewet: motion and graphic designer based here in the south-west.
- John Fountain: senior copywriter, which is a characteristic understatement.
- Giles Turnbull: author and agile communication consultant, also here in the south-west.
- Charlotte Watt: branding, advertising and comms strategist.
…and all those who have come via our partners. Alex and Eathan at High Tide assemble our formidable film unit, and Aer Studios bring creative technology and engineering excellence here in the south-west.
Key People
Becky Cotton
Chief Executive Officer (and Women in Innovation award winner)
Mo Morgan
Chief Strategy Officer (and Bristol Mind trustee)
Jess Love
Lead Designer (and integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor)