[3] Before joining Optum, Seddon served as Senior Special Adviser for Health and Life Sciences to Prime Minister David Cameron from May 2013 to 2016.
In this capacity, he played an instrumental role in developing and implementing policies to ensure the long-term sustainability of the NHS.
[4] During the UK's G8 presidency, he worked with the PM and other international stakeholders to bring the fight against dementia to the forefront of the global policy agenda.
[6] Seddon was formerly deputy director of the pro-market think tank Reform[7] and has served as head of communications for Circle, then the UK's fastest growing healthcare company.
[9] He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School in Birmingham and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and earned a first-class degree.