Chris Roche has joined informatics solutions company Aridhia as chief executive, overseeing a workforce of 60 employees.

He succeeds David Sibbald, who will become executive chairman at the firm.

Sibbald co-founded Aridhia in 2007 with the chief scientist for health in Scotland Professor Andrew Morris.

Roche (pictured) joined the firm in 2014 as chief commercial officer. He was previously chief technology officer for technology firm EMC.

Roche said: “Aridhia is a rare company that has a real opportunity to change the way we use data and analytics to manage chronic disease and accelerate collaborative research… My focus is now to accelerate our own business model by opening international hubs and building specific disease focused solutions with our clinical partners.”