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Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Driving product innovation, overseeing medical expansion, progressing our patent strategy and leading the explorative research into the use of BFR in space.

London & Sheffield

Working with Sheffield Hallam University through the Royal Society, with the aim to spark a new wave of spin-outs and start-ups being generated from activity at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.

Lichfield, England, United Kingdom

Providing businesses with support and expertise relating to sport, science, technology and start-ups. More information available at handsakerinnovation.com

Lichfield, England, United Kingdom

Supported early-stage start-ups in sport, health and wellness (Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A) to nail down their business proposition and help them to raise investment. Taking experience from four years as a start-up owner, and a background in sports science and technology to help promising businesses get to the next step.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Leading the setting up and running of a new exciting new sports technology accelerator for technical founders of early stage sports technology start-ups, powered by Propel Teams.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

After spotting an opportunity to repurpose consumer technologies into accessible Industry 4.0 products for SME manufacturers, I founded Elements in January 2018, raised £250k investment just nine months later, and brought a product to market in May 2019.Personal achievements including:- Raising £500k in private equity investment across two investment.

Chester, United Kingdom I Colombo, Sri Lanka I

As an advisor, I worked on projects relating to human movement and human anatomy, primarily advising on how to capture human movement and performance using wearable technologies. I was positioned within the central innovation team, working with the separate spokes within the MAS Holdings umbrella to help develop new tech-based and garment-based solutions.

My personal consulting company, providing biomechanical expertise to external companies. Previous contracts have included working with:MAS Holdings- Continued work with spokes of MAS Holdings, helping to arrange and conduct human trials to test new product concepts; as well as aiding the filing of patents to cover inventive technologies and.

Loughborough

Lead researcher in the most extensive study ever performed into the biomechanics of long distance running, I performed biomechanical analysis of 100+ elite and recreational runners performing an incremental running test to exhaustion. I liaised between Loughborough University, the funders (MAS) and a startup (Lumo) that were developing a product based on.

- Provided an annual lecture on pathways into clinical biomechanics, for the Sports Biomechanics MSc course.- Presented to the Sports Science MSc on research and development in the area of artificial turf.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Examined the effects of diabetic peripheral neuropathy on the underpinning mechanisms of locomotion, and the effect of a targeted exercise intervention.- Tested over 100 participants, including a large proportion of patients with diabetes and diabetic peripheral neuropathy- Examined a number of kinematic, kinetic, and electromyographic factors, on safety.

Examined the turning profile of elite and semi-elite footballers on artificial and natural turf surfaces, at elite sites across Europe. My work on the project led to the award of a scholarship to complete my masters at Liverpool John Moores University. - Set-up and ran a six-camera motion capture system- Captured and analysed data from 60+ sub-elite.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

- Performed clinical biomechanical observations of patients at a leading biomechanics lab, with a client base of professional athletes, footballers, and other sportsmen and sportswomen. - Initially started working at Sub4 as part of a work based learning module during my undergraduate degree. - I was asked to continue working on a part time basis at.

Ph.D, Clinical Biomechanics

Clinical Biomechanics: Ph.D

Msc, Sports Biomechanics

Sports Biomechanics: MSc

Bsc (Hons), Sport And Exercise Sciences, 2:1

Sports and Exercise Science: BSc (Hons)