Justin Adams is currently Business Unit Leader for Venturing in BP Alternative Energy (the dedicated cleantech division of the BP Group). In this role he is responsible for investing in early and growth stage cleantech businesses of strategic relevance to the Group. He serves on the Board of a number of the companies within the venture portfolio. His team is also responsible for spinning out and incubating new businesses resulting from BP’s global university partnerships.
Mr Adams joined BP plc. in 2003 as Director of Long Term Technology working for the Chief Scientist. He led the development of the Group’s Long Term Technology Strategy laying out a strategic roadmap to 2030 and supported the initial set up of the Hydrogen Energy, biofuels, distributed energy and clean coal businesses.
Prior to joining BP Mr Adams was the founder and CEO of High Power Lithium a Swiss company developing next generation battery materials for hybrid electric vehicles in collaboration with Toyota. He was also an advisor to Konarka Technologies, a Massachusetts based start-up, developing next generation solar cells utilising conducting polymers and nanostructured materials.
Before this he worked as a consultant with Arthur D. Little, ultimately leading the Advanced Energy Systems practice in Europe, delivering strategic and techno-economic consulting on emerging energy technologies to many of the world’s leading energy majors, and supporting technology start ups develop commercialisation pathways.
Kevin is CEO and Director of concentrator PV cell company QuantaSol Ltd., a spin-out from Imperial College London who secured their seed round funding of £1.35M in June 2007, and are now manufacturing prototypes of their innovative Quantum Well solar cells, which promise world beating efficiency and spectral performance.
QuantaSol are in the process of raising an ‘A’ round of £7M to finance product development and the recruitment of manufacturing Operations, R&D and sales and marketing teams.
Prior to QuantaSol, Kevin operated his own portfolio executive practice, and held senior roles with young high growth companies such as Sitel Semiconductor, Si-Light, Izezi and Quantemol, and worked with BskyB, RBS and PepsiCo in various leadership development roles. Before this, in corporate life, he held executive positions with a number of multinational semiconductor businesses, including Director of EMEA Sales and Marketing for TRW LSI Products, Director of EMEA Sales, Marketing and Operations for Raytheon Semiconductor and Vice President Global Sales for Mitel Semiconductor, and has a total of 25 years experience in Semiconductor sales and marketing.
Before becoming Investment Director at London Seed Capital Rob was the Investment Manager for its sister organisation London Business Angels where he acted as the ‘gatekeeper’ to the network. Prior to London Business Angels he was the market analyst for the University of Ulster's technology transfer and new ventures vehicle 'UUTech', where he analysed and managed 'Proof of Concept' and seed stage investments in IP-led businesses. Having founded his own digital media technology company in 2000, Rob went on to work for a strategic marketing company specialising in pre IPO, venture capital backed, Silicon Valley technology companies. During his time in Silicon Valley he was awarded employee of the year from the late Fred Hoar. Rob holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology Systems and Business and a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Science from the University of Glasgow.
David Dobson is the Industry Manager responsible for Microsoft Corporations worldwide store systems and ecommerce strategy in the retail, wholesale and distribution industry. This involves developing the five year sales and marketing plan and working with our internal product teams to ensure the products meet the needs of this dynamic market.
Prior to Microsoft, David worked for over 20 years in various software businesses in the United Kingdom and Europe, holding a range of positions various positions from developer to board level.
Daniel is the founder of Tribeka Ltd, creator and developer of the SoftWide system, the multi award-winning and revolutionary process for the retail selling of computer software (including games, business applications, and educational software).
SoftWide licenses and manufactures discs and full product packaging, on demand to customers in-store in 2 to 3 minutes.
With a showcase store launched at London Heathrow airport Terminal 4, Tribeka is now to license SoftWide to retailers worldwide.
Prior to Tribeka, Daniel held the positions of Assistant Vice President, Equity Systems at Credit Lyonnais and Executive in Derivative Pricing Systems division at Banque Paribas.
Mark Emanuelson has directed major sales, business development, and marketing teams around the world in high technology and media industries.
Currently, Mark leads a 100 person sales, marketing, and business development team in Central and Eastern Europe for Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. His responsibility is stretched across 18 countries focusing on the fast growing emerging markets of the new European Union entrants. Previously, Mark led service provider marketing for Cisco across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, developing broadband and services strategy with some of the largest and most strategic telecommunications companies in the region.
Mark started with Cisco in Silicon Valley, California, where he led e-commerce development and Internet marketing. Cisco has one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world today handling tens of millions of dollars worth of online transactions each day. Mark also launched the first major online community for Cisco in 1999 that today is generating over 1000 posts per day from members across 120 countries worldwide.
Prior to his career with Cisco, Mark led Internet marketing for Adaptec, another high technology firm based in California. Before joining the technology sector, Mark had a six year career in the media business as a sales account manager for some of the largest media firms in the USA including Gannet, Scripps and others.
Mark Emanuelson holds a Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University located in Silicon Valley, California, where he graduated with honours. Now, he resides near London in the United Kingdom.
Neil Foster joined Field Fisher Waterhouse from Morrison & Foerster, a US law firm, where he was a partner and founding member of the UK Corporate Practice in London. He joined the firm as a corporate partner in 2006.
Neil’s practice covers mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and corporate finance. His principal sector specialisations are technology, media, communications, healthcare and life sciences. As well as advising UK companies, banks, venture funds and intermediaries, Neil represents many large US and Asian corporations and institutions on their UK and European deals.
Recent deals include transactions for Liberty Global, Vernalis, Echostar Satellite Corporation, Chellomedia, Zonemedia, Hammer Film Holdings, Daewoo Motors, Pacific Crossing and Arcadia Biosciences, as well as for a number of smaller companies.
Neil is a regular speaker at venture capital, technology, biotechnology and corporate finance events. Recent speaking engagements have included "Strategies for Successful Exits", "The Use of US Techniques in UK Venture Capital Transactions", "Strategic and Venture Investments in the Biotech Industry", "Board Restructuring Pre-IPO" and "Alignment of Exit Strategies", "Investing in the Enlarged EU" and "UK-US Mergers and Acquisitions". Neil has spoken at events in London, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Barcelona. He was a mentor to CEOs of emerging companies at the European Venture Academies in Copenhagen and London, specialising in fund-raising strategies and techniques.
Neil is a member of British American Business, the transatlantic trade association, and wrote the chapter on "Transatlantic M&A" in British American Business' 2007 Guide to Investing in the UK.
Marie manages the external collaborations portfolio of Unilever Corporate Research (UCR) in support of its mission of ‘new research for new business’. UCR represents the longer-term research and scouting arm of Unilever research, spends a third of its budget on external research collaborations worldwide, in a range of disciplines spanning the life and health sciences, the physical and engineering sciences, mathematics, the social sciences and some areas of the arts and the humanities. Innovation which falls outside the current Unilever business is ventured out and developed in a suitable environment.
In her previous role at Unilever, she worked as a commercial scientist focusing on automating consumer dialogue on a mass scale, and developed new pathways for Consumer Relationship Management and brand communication.
An advocate of language and communication, Marie has a passion for formalising knowledge and enabling its automatic processing for augmenting it, sharing and exploiting it. She was a member of the Language Engineering Department of the former Institute of Science and Technology of the University of Manchester.
Laurence is chief executive of the Amadeus & Angels Seed Fund (AASF) a £20m fund, the successor to the Mobile Seed Fund (AMSF) and the latest fund raised by Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. AASF is dedicated to providing seed money for start-up companies across the technology sectors (excluding Life Sciences). Since joining Amadeus in 2001 Laurence has established Amadeus' seed activity and has made a number of focused investments to date. One is Enigmatec, which has developed a powerful distributed and cross platform virtualisation management system. Another, Nujira, is developing advanced power amplifier technology that will solve some of the enduring problems faced by the cellular industry and a third, Xmos is revolutionising re-configurable silicon (ASICs and FPGAs to you and me) with a breakthrough to watch out for.
Laurence brings a wealth of experience to his role in evaluating and building these opportunities. He spent seven years at Motorola, working in a product management, advanced services and mobile commerce in the mobile sector, culminating in a spin-out. Many of his jobs at Motorola involved developing strategy, launching product and implementing new business ideas. Laurence started his career at Smiths Industries in the Aerospace division, sensors, engine controls and fuel gauging systems and has transitioned from technical to commercial to investment roles through his career.
Andy Jones leads the Business Process Services line of business of Xerox Global Services Europe. Andy’s responsibilities range from service offer development to business development. Business Process Services helps clients streamline and automate document-intensive business processes via a portfolio of process aligned outsourced services.
Andy has over 25 years experience in the document and content management arena. During his time at Xerox Andy has been responsible for the introduction of new service offerings working closely with the Xerox R&D community plus specialist partners. Prior to Xerox his career included founding a design consultancy group, heavily involved in the introduction of CAD / CAM to many engineering companies and also a member of the management team of a start up document management technology business. Andy has three children and a passion for sailing.
Martin is the partner responsible for establishing IBM Venture Capital Group in EMEA in 2007. This group is part of company’s commitment to innovation in the venture capital community. Previously, he led business development in public sector and healthcare businesses in lBM Ireland. He has worked in the industry for 18 years in a variety of technical, project management and business development roles for firms including PWC Consulting, Masterfoods Europe, H.J.Heinz UK and Bank of Ireland.
Martin has an MBA from Smurfit Business School and a BSc in Information Systems from Trinity College, Dublin.
Simon Kerry became Karus’s first Chief Executive Officer in May 2006: he has more than fifteen years business development and general management experience in the life-science sector. Karus is a spin-out from the University of Southampton focused on the discovery and development of new drugs to treat cancer and inflammatory disease. Karus has successfully completed seed and angel rounds and secured an important co-development deal in 2007.
Prior to joining Karus, Simon was Director of Business Development at Ablynx NV (Ghent, Belgium) where he played a key role in the company’s rapid growth, which included securing major licensing agreements with top-ten pharmaceutical companies.
Prior to joining Ablynx, Simon occupied key business development positions within the Active Biotech group, including International Business Manager at Actinova Ltd, General Manager at Actigen Ltd, Business Development Director at Active Biotech AB (Lund, Sweden) and Vice President Business Development at Isogenica Ltd, a spin-out from Active.
Simon has a life-sciences PhD and an MBA from Loughborough University Business School
Andy is the Research Director for The 451 Group. He has been studying, analyzing and writing about the IT industry for more than 20 years, enjoying a career as an award-winning journalist and technology publisher before becoming a full-time analyst.
Before joining The 451 Group, Andy was cofounder and Editorial Director of London-based Infoconomy, publisher of Information Age magazine. Prior to that, he was the Editorial Director at ComputerWire, a global IT news service. He was also the founding editor of London-based Computer Business Review magazine, where he pioneered critical, in-depth business coverage of the IT industry in the European press. Andy is frequently invited to appear at conferences, on TV, and in podcasts and webinars discussing developments in enterprise IT.
Zickie Lim is an associate in the corporate finance team of Mills & Reeve LLP. She has advised in relation to over 40 university spin-outs from institutions including the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Sheffield, UEA, Essex, Warwick and Aston.
Her recent spin-out deals include acting for Metalysis Ltd, a metals extraction company which spun out from the University of Cambridge and the reverse takeover by Oxford Advanced Surfaces Ltd (which spun out of the University of Oxford) of AIM listed Kanyon plc. Zickie also acts for a number of early stage venture capital funds, some of which invest in university spin outs, including a number of university challenge funds.
Zickie has recently published a suite of documents and know-how for the spin out process in Practical Law Company, the leading supplier of precedents and training to the legal profession.
Sandy McKinnon has nearly 10 years experience in helping successful commercialisation of defensible technology innovations.
As Director of Knowledge Transfer & Technology and Research Services (TRS) at Heriot- Watt University he helped incubate twelve spin-out companies and helped them raise over £4.6M in funding.
As a freelance consultant and also whilst he was with Scientific Generics in Cambridge - where he helped evolve and finally ran their Advance Technology Group - he provided due-diligence services over a wide range of sectors for a variety of blue-chip companies, institutions and VC funds.
Stuart founded Ascendant in late 2003. He studied engineering before taking an MBA at Manchester Business School. Since graduation he has been consistently involved in corporate finance either as a client or in an advisory capacity. Prior to Ascendant worked for Hill Samuel, Nomura, Regent Associates and Cobalt Corporate Finance. He was a founding member of Nomura’s technology team in 1995, and has raised many millions of pounds for high growth technology companies and advised on M&A transactions both in the UK and throughout the world. A notable success was the flotation of Xaar plc on the main London market. More recently, Stuart set up and led the Private Equity/Fund Raising operations of Regent Associates. He then moved to Cobalt, where he was one of two directors who established the business as one of the leading technology focused corporate finance boutiques in the UK. Stuart has worked with businesses from start up right through to final exit.
Since 1997, he has been one of the key researchers in the area of Venture Capital Investment in Technology Companies. His team produce quarterly research notes highlighting, inter alia, “hot areas”, funds invested, number of deals completed and most active investors. This research has been cited in many journals including the FT, Electronics Weekly, Real Deals, Silicon South West, and Young Company Finance.
His clients have included, inter alia, ACAL Energy, Trampoline Systems, AKJ Associates, Impaq AG, Skinkers, Focus Solutions plc, Edenbrook, Screen Pages, Staffcare, AIM Technology, Sun Microsystems, Nvigorate, Visual Approval, Vicorp, Terahertz Photonics, Broadreach Networks, Zygon, Opsys, Mergermarket, Mercator Systems, Widget Group, Summit Document Management, Systems Union, Magenta Logic, PayShop, Connect Communications, Radiant Networks, Xaar, RAMAR, and Logos.
Tim Minshall is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management and a non-executive director of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, Cambridge.
Before joining the University of Cambridge, he was an executive director at St John's Innovation Centre Ltd managing a series of projects to support industry / academic collaboration focused around new technology ventures. Two of his main projects were the setup and early management of the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (now Cambridge Enterprise and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning) and the management of the 'Developing Entrepreneurs' project. ‘Developing Entrepreneurs’ led to the formation of the 'Enterprise Link' networking group for new technology ventures, the production of the annual 'Cambridge Technopole Report', the formation of the Cambridge Technopole Group, the setup of the University of Cambridge Enterprise Network, and the publication of the 'Funding Technology' report series.
Prior to working at St John's Innovation Centre, he worked as a teacher, consultant, plant engineer and freelance writer in the UK, Australia and Japan. He has B.Eng. from Aston University and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department.
Simon Murdoch is founder and CEO of FriendsAbroad.com Ltd, a company running two language-related web services: doyouspeak.com and friendsabroad.com.
doyouspeak.com is on online English language school providing multimedia language lessons given by native English-speaking teachers. friendsabroad.com is a language exchange website for people who want to practise their language skills and develop friendships with people from other parts of the world.
Previously, Simon was VP Europe of Amazon.com. He managed huge growth from start up in late 1996 through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff, ie from founding of his own Internet bookselling company Bookpages in late 1996, through acquisition by Amazon.com in April 1998, launch of Amazon.co.uk in October 1998 and ultra-high growth through 1999.
He is also co-founder and partner of Episode 1 Partners Ltd, an early stage technology investment company. Episode 1 invested and managed the $100m Chase Episode 1 Fund which was launched in early 2000 to invest at start up or early stage in Internet and technology businesses such as Betfair.
Simon has also invested directly as a business angel and advised as non-executive chairman or director a number of software technology and Internet businesses based in the UK including LoveFilm (DVD rental), Shazam Entertainment (music recognition) and Commerce Decisions (e-sourcing solutions).
Amanda Williams Palmer is the executive editor of the European Venture Capital and Private Equity Journal (EVCJ). Like many new entrants in the industry, Amanda crossed over from the hedge funds space two years ago - she was the formerly the editor of HFM Week and Hedge Fund Manager Magazine and the news editor of Hedge Funds Review.
In the past, Amanda has written for Investment Week, MultiManager Magazine, Global Finance Magazine, Bloomberg Money and Legal Week. She regularly appears on MSNBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune, as well as by Bloomberg and Reuters.
Amanda organised and hosted the Venture Capital Fundraising Forum and she has been invited to speak at Buyouts East, Buyouts West, GAIM Fund of Funds and GAIM Europe and at Structured Products World.
Chris is a world-leading specialist in value-driven corporate strategies for exploiting IT, and Director of Dominic Barrow. He works with executives in industry-leading companies around the world, helping them to integrate strategic IT investment and exploitation into their mainstream business management, with advice and mentoring, hands-on help, facilitation and skills transfer.
Chris has twenty-two years’ experience in corporate, business and IT strategies, IT investment management, enterprise architecture and hands-on IT delivery. His public seminars in Europe and Australasia “Corporate Strategies for Exploiting IT” are founded on his own breakthrough work with clients and are attended by executives, managers and IT specialists from blue chip organisations.
He is also a regular – and sometimes controversial – conference speaker. In 2007 he was ‘keynote’ and ‘featured’ speaker at Enterprise Architecture conferences in London and Sydney respectively. In April 2008 he will be the keynote speaker at the IT Strategy 3.0 Conference in Sydney, presenting “IT Strategy is Dead: Now What?”
In the USA, the global CIO website CIO.com has awarded him the accolade of Expert in his field. In February 2008 his groundbreaking book “fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology” is scheduled for publication, also in the USA. In the UK he is a member of Computer Weekly’s panel of Strategy Clinic experts, and the Strategic Planning Society.
Chris has published numerous articles on strategies for exploiting IT, the CIO’s strategic positioning and evolution, investing in change, and delivering business value. He has trained partners and consultants from some of the world’s leading consultancies.
Allyson Reed, Director of Strategy and Communications at the Technology Strategy Board, is a commercial business leader with a scientific academic background.
She was previously Director of Innovation Partnerships at QinetiQ plc and prior to that Commercial Director of a national research laboratory where she headed technology transfer, developing a substantial commercial collaboration programme including licensing and setting up CLIK, the technology transfer company, the Rainbow Seed Fund, a portfolio of spin-outs, and a joint venture science park and incubator with an RDA.
Following early research as Rosalind Franklin Fellow at Cambridge University, Allyson has held senior management roles in a number of international healthcare, engineering and communications businesses. Until recently she was CEO of 3CResearch, a company commercialising research in new digital media.
She has extensive experience of public and private sector innovation, of the business and people skills needed to accelerate sustainable new business and of engaging large and small organisations in enterprise.
Nigel leads PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Vision to Reality Programme in the UK. This programme offers a wide range of services to entrepreneurial companies. Nigel is passionate about this sector and PwC are committed to helping build tomorrow’s best companies.
Nigel is an audit partner. In this role, he co-ordinates PwC’s wide range of services to his clients, by building a deep understanding of their businesses. This enables him to help them build value in areas as diverse as developing business plans and executing strategy, making and integrating acquisitions, moving into overseas markets and creating wealth for shareholders through flotation and trade sale.
Nigel also runs a networking and seminar club for Venture Capitalists, who are looking to invest in dynamic companies. He is also a regular speaker and a variety of industry and accountancy events.
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Having appeared in the first and second series of Dragons' Den, Doug is the founder and Chairman of Library House, Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels, Chairman and CEO of Trutap, and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force.
Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK. Between 1996 and 2000 he was President and CEO of Micrografx, a US publicly-quoted software company which he sold to Corel Corp. in 2000. Prior to that he also founded and subsequently sold two other companies: Visual Software and ITAL Computers. Doug holds a BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor at the school of Law, University of California at Los Angeles. In 2006 Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. In 2007, Doug became a fellow of the RSA.
Robert Sheffrin is an adviser with North West Business Angels. A former venture capital fund manager and bank manager specialising in funding for smaller businesses he trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG later working with Deloittes and Ladbroke Group.
After participating in an MBO and subsequent flotation, he established an international venture capital consultancy. He is an advisor to a number of funding organisations, a director of Braemar Securities and was President of the Manchester Society of Chartered Accountants in 2006/07.
Mark Shorrock is the founder of Low Carbon Investors, the investment manager of Low Carbon Accelerator.
Since 2003, Mark has worked with a group of advisers to identify business solutions to climate change seeking out fast growing businesses capable of reducing CO2 emissions immediately and uncovered numerous strong management teams and solid business models which, in many cases, were synergistic with other potentially fast growing businesses. It was this preparatory work which led to the formation of Low Carbon Investors and Low Carbon Accelerator.
Mark was formerly founder and CEO of Wind Energy Ltd, the UK's largest independent developer of wind farms with over 650MW of onshore wind power in planning in Scotland which has recently sold a majority stake to the US multinational AES, creating a substantial return on investment for its founder shareholders.
Mark's early career was in the film industry where he produced a number of films and set up a number of drama and film productions.
Mike’s career spans 33 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 20 years in Mobile Communications. He was appointed Contracts Director of Cellnet in 1989 dealing with major infra-structure investments and UK interconnect agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to launching Cellnet’s GSM service and establishing Roaming Agreements.
He was elected Chairman of the GSM Association for 1995/96 and served on their Executive Board for 5 years. He has also served as a member of the UK Home Office Internet Task Force and UK OSAB (Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board) until 2006 and 2007 respectively.
Mike has chaired the MDA since 1998, leading the Association as Chairman /spokesperson and on Public Policy.
He was appointed VP Technology for O2 Group in 2000, Visiting Professor at Surrey University in 2003 and to the Coventry University Board in 2006. He is a Fellow of BCS/CIPS/RGS, a Member of IET and the Royal Television Society
Mike’s focus today is on Third Generation cellular, Mobile TV and steering Telefonica O2 Europe’s Group Research and Development in mobile.
Malcolm Skingle has a BSc in Pharmacology/Biochemistry and a PhD in Neuropharmacology. He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 30 years and has gained a wide breadth of experience in the management of research activities.
Part of his former role as a research leader in a Neuropharmacology department involved co-supervising collaborations with academics in the UK, Europe and USA.
He has more than 60 publications including articles on the interface between industry and academia. For more than a decade he has managed Academic Liaison at GSK and has staff in Stevenage, Research Triangle Park and Philadelphia. This role involves close liaison with several groups outside the Company e.g. Government Departments, Research and Funding Councils, Small Biotechnology Companies and other science-driven organisations.
He sits on many external bodies including the BBSRC Strategy Board, the East of England RDA Science and Industry Council, the CBI academic liaison group and several UK University Department advisory groups. He also chairs several groups including the BBSRC Bioscience for Industry Panel, the Diamond (Synchotron) Industrial Advisory Board, the Inner Core Lambert working group on boilerplate agreements and the ABPI group working on academic liaison.
Malcolm Stewart joined Liverpool Ventures from Avecia Ltd where he ran a number of technology based, early stage business units based in Europe and the USA
He has service as a board member of spin out companies in the USA and Germany working with them from start up through to investor exit.
His career spans more than 20 years directing and delivering strategy and business performance. He has worked internationally in advanced materials, speciality chemicals and biotechnology.
Eric is a pioneering technology entrepreneur with an influential foot in government, and is also developing the innovative Technology Investment Programme in which the GEP is helping create the next generation of major global Venture Capital funds headquartered in the UK.
A serial entrepreneur with a wealth of IP and technology experience, Eric founded and raised over $40M for www.adeptra.com, which leads the field in the automation of credit card fraud prevention and collections. Eric is a key architect of the UK government's highly successful Global Entrepreneur Programme (www.entrepreneurs.gov.uk), which has closed around 100 deals and raised over $200M in attracting "Investment, talent, and Ideas of Exceptional Potential" to the UK. He continues to be an active angel investor in his own portfolio of young technology and cleantech businesses, while using his broader experience to create the next generation of successful global-thinking entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Teri Willey is the Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd (CE) www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Cambridge, which works with University academics to commercialise their inventions through new and existing companies, and engage with industry through consultancy.
Prior to CE she was a Managing Partner of ARCH Development Partners (ADP), a seed and early stage venture fund focused on university and corporate spin-outs. Teri, a founder of ADP, participated as a Director on portfolio company, community and venture capital Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards, as a University of Notre Dame Business School Adjunct Professor, and continues as an Advisor to ADP.
Prior to the start of ADP, Teri was Vice President of Start-ups at ARCH Development Corporation, a subsidiary of the University of Chicago, which commercialised technology from the University and Argonne National Laboratory. Her experience includes technology transfer and business development roles at Northwestern University, Purdue University and in industry. Ms. Willey has been an advisor to policy makers, universities and companies, and is a past President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
Mike Wright is Professor of Financial Studies, Director of the Center for Management Buy-out Research at Nottingham University Business School and visiting professor at INSEAD, Erasmus University and University of Siena. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ghent in 2006.
He has published 50 authored/edited books and over 270 academic papers on academic entrepreneurship, venture capital, private equity and related topics in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, California Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, etc. He was ranked #1 worldwide for publications in academic entrepreneurship 1981-2005 [Rothaermel et al, Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007].
He is an editor of Journal of Management Studies and a Consulting Editor International Journal of Management Reviews. His latest books include The Life-cycle of Corporate Governance (with Igor Filatotchev, 2005), Habitual Entrepreneurs (with Deniz Ucbasaran and Paul Westhead, 2006), Academic Entrepreneurship in Europe (with Bart Clarysse, Philippe Mustar and Andy Lockett, 2007) and he has recently completed Private Equity and Management Buy-outs (with Hans Bruining).
George Yip is Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. He is also a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.
He is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, and internationalization. His current research concerns management innovation, strategic transformation, international competitiveness, and global customers.
Before joining RSM Erasmus University, Yip was Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, an 8 billion euro global company active in consulting, technology, and outsourcing, where he managed the research and innovation process to develop thought leadership for the company. During this time he was on leave of absence as Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School. He was previously the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University, and has also held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA, and visiting positions at China-Europe International Business School, Georgetown University, Stanford Business School, and Templeton College-Oxford.
George has twelve years of full-time business experience in international business, marketing, and strategy, working in the United States and the United Kingdom. This experience includes product management with Unilever; account management with Lintas, one of the world's largest advertising agencies; and senior manager of Price Waterhouse's strategic management consulting services in the Eastern United States.
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