Elaine Johnston

Elaine Johnston is General Counsel at Gyroscope. Elaine has nearly 20 years of legal experience including in drug and medical devices research, development, manufacturing, commercialization, healthcare compliance, IP licensing, corporate governance and mergers & acquisitions (and associated integration activities).

Elaine most recently served as the Head of Legal at BTG plc, which was a FTSE 250 healthcare company focused on interventional medicine and specialty pharmaceuticals that was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2019. Elaine led the global legal team with legal operations in Europe, the USA and Asia.

Prior to BTG, Elaine was a legal consultant at Abbott Laboratories primarily supporting the Abbott Medical Optics and Abbott Nutrition businesses in Europe. Previously, she was a legal consultant at BioMarin supporting legal operations in the UK and Ireland. Elaine trained and qualified as a solicitor at Mayer Brown in London. She graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1997 with a LL.B (Hons) Degree in Law and completed her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law, Chester in 2000.