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Alan Birrell
Alan Birrell guides healthcare innovations from concept to market. His extensive experience with multinational companies in medical devices, diagnostics, and pharmaceuticals provides deep expertise in commercialization. He founded TMBG in 2013, a consulting firm supporting startups in navigating sales, marketing, and manufacturing for global markets. As an angel investor, Alan actively invested in and mentors startups. His recent role at Health Innovation East further highlights his commitment to entrepreneurial growth.
Currently, Alan's projects span diverse sectors: healthcare & diagnostics, circular economy & sustainability, aquaculture, and IP commercialization. He leverages his skills to help startups overcome the challenges of product launch. A member of the Association of Business Mentors, he offers valuable mentorship and coaching. His extensive network and experience make him an invaluable asset to startups seeking to succeed.
Richard Carey-Evans
Richard Carey-Evans is a Senior Innovation and Growth Adviser at Innovate UK Business Growth. He has extensive international experience in business management and consultancy, focusing on sustainable construction, supply chain, and marketing. His key skills include funding strategies and preparing businesses for investment, developing commercial models including licensing, Innovate UK resources and internationalisation.
Mark Cheverton
For the last 30 years, Mark has worked in software engineering, most recently as CTO of Cambridge-based Redgate Software. He now spends his time as a NED and advisor, helping companies with engineering practices, finding product-market fit, innovation, and strategy. Getting those first customers can be challenging, so I spend a lot of my time with teams getting them to the point where they're ready to scale. It's easy to prototype; it's much harder to build a product!
Rachel Daniel, Cristina Penine, Joeeta Murphy
ip21 advises innovators and companies on their intellectual property (IP) assets as part of their overall IP strategy. We offer a comprehensive range of intellectual property legal services including drafting, filing and prosecuting of the major intellectual property rights (including patents, trade marks and design registrations), professional advisory work in contentious or investigative matters and ongoing commercial consultancy including licensing, valuation and market/competitor analysis advice
Geoff Dragon
Geoff's a Partner in the Emerging Companies team (part of the Corporate Division) at Mishcon de Reya LLP. Passionate about assisting early-stage and/or scaling technology companies to maximise their potential, Geoff's practice utilises his knowledge of the early-stage and venture-capital sectors to assist clients with getting 'investment ready' before advising on their equity fundraisings at all stages of their life. In addition, Geoff has particular expertise in employee equity incentives and the implementation of employee share schemes. Geoff's ultimate goal is to be a trusted extension of his clients' teams, build deep and lasting relationships, and share in their journeys from start-ups to successful businesses.
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Andrew Hatcher
With a foundation built during his tenure at Reuters, Andrew honed his skills within the corporate venturing division, spearheading the development of an innovation management system. His journey culminated in the role of CEO for an Asian-based Internet trading spin-out in Singapore, where he successfully navigated initial VC funding and orchestrated a trade sale. Since then, Andrew has played a pivotal role in founding, nurturing, and scaling numerous companies. As a non-executive director in various mid-stage technology firms. Andrew is a mentor and teacher at both the Cambridge Judge Business School and the London Business School, he imparts practical knowledge in areas such as strategy development, proposition refinement, communication, implementation, and strategic marketing.
Tom Hughes
Tom is a proven entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor. He founded Milkround.com, a leading online recruitment company, which he managed and grew before selling it to News Corporation. At News Corp he worked across a variety of digital businesses and start-ups within the organisation. He now independently invests in and advises early stage businesses. Prior to Milkround he worked as a civil engineer then management consultant. He studied engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lucy Jung
Lucy Jung, Founder of Charco Neurotech, is a design engineer focused on projects related to patient care. Charco Neurotech developed the CUE1 device, with and for people with Parkinson’s, to improve their quality of life.
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Adam Leaf
Former R&D Deployment Director at Johnson & Johnson Consumer (now Kenvue), now CEO of Leaf Consultants Limited. 30 years’ experience in blue chip FMCG (Food, Beverages, Consumer Health) and Life Sciences. Experience in R&D, Regulatory, Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing. Subject Matter Expertise in Lifecycle Management, Project Management, New Product introduction, Portfolio Management, Revenue Growth Management, Lean Process Optimisation.
Steve Marsh
Dr. Steve Marsh is a Computer Scientist and deep tech entrepreneur with a passion for addressing global problems with innovative technology solutions. In 2013 Dr. Marsh founded GeoSpock, a venture-backed database technology company solving planet-scale spatial big data analytics for the connected world.
Emmi Nicholl
Emmi has an educational background in Applied Linguistics, but her career path always led her into operations leadership roles. She has worked in finance, consulting and telecoms, across two continents, and has worked in a tech start-up as COO. This has given her the advantage of being familiar with the start-up journey.
Emmi is the Managing Director aka Deal Sorcerer (yes, that’s really her job title) of the angel investment group, Cambridge Angels – a group of investors who are almost all exited founders themselves. The group provides smart capital from entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs and supports innovative science and engineering-based technology companies. Emmi’s role is to support Cambridge Angels’ reach to attract high quality investment opportunities.
Jamie Urquhart
Jamie started work in R&D as a chip designer, and moved on to leading the VLSI Chip Design group that designed the chips that powered the Acorn Archimedes Range of computers. Out of necessity he was part of the team that co-founded Advanced RISC Machines (later shortened to Arm). Though not in his career plan he took on the Sales role at Arm and was COO later when the company went public. After that and a couple of years as Chief Strategy Officer (still at Arm) retired. He did some angel investing then joined a VC and later retired again. He is now paying back and works with several initiatives aimed at helping startups develop their success. He has experience of many aspects of startups from sales, leadership, management, marketing, planning and pitching. The importance of the customer. Raising and investing Venture capital.