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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Shareholder and Director with overall responsibility for a small company supplying specialised XML processing (www.xmlprime.com) and a web publishing platform for the Pharmaceutical Press (publishing arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society). The company has delivered point of care prescribing information to hospitals, the NHS and the world without.

Established a new division within University Information Services to bring user centred design practices to the organisation. The initial team of 6 now has strong leadership and the skills to create world-class user experiences. Digital Transformation is beginning to influence the working practice of the whole organisation.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

CARET was an innovation centre within the University of Cambridge. The purpose of the centre was to help Cambridge students, teachers and researchers take best advantage of information technology in their work. The centre had a global reputation in platform technologies for teaching and learning and grew to around 30 staff with £1.5 million in research.

Sakai Foundation is a software foundation for Higher Education with a subscription model and a membership that included Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Cape Town, Michigan, Indiana and nearly 100 other universities. The Board of Directors ensured proper open source licensing of contributed code and facilitated the collaboration of the.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Startup advice to local 'pre-seed' and 'early stage' entrepreneurs and businesses. Significant project for Addenbrooke's NHS Trust to create management information solution following introduction of a major new software system. Established a spin-off company of the University of Cambridge in web publishing of pharmaceutical information.

San Francisco Bay Area

Founding shareholder of venture financed startup, developing continuous noninvasive blood pressure monitoring technology. Radically revised business proposition as impact of the Clinton 1993 Health Security Act ("healthcare reform") changed the economics of the medical device industry. Raised multiple rounds of venture capital. Technology acquired by.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Co-founder and director of Granta Laboratories. The company was established with private funds to develop a novel DNA probe detection technology, based in part on technology licensed from BP. Negotiated the acquisition of the technology from BP and obtained a SMART award from the DTI. Also negotiated R&D collaborations with British Biotech plc and Celsis.

Murcia Area, Spain

Established Spanish operation of UK startup PhotoBiorectors Limited extracting beta-carotene from micro algae. Acquired land, established offices, arranged government and European soft loans, and built staff to 30 employees. When initial pilot performance was disappointing, worked with consultant to redesign pilot plant and constructed a new pilot plant in.

Greater Boston Area

Helped grow the company from 2 employees through IPO (NASDAQ:BEAM) with a valuation of $200 million. Responsible for business planning, marketing and project management. Managed (and participated in) the first human trials of the technology. Organised presence at major US medical conferences. Summit Technology was the first enterprise to receive FDA.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Led projects to identify and develop new technology-based business opportunities for small and medium sized businesses around the world. Helped to develop a large corporation technology strategy offering that led to a major project with Anglo American and was a key member of the team that delivered the project.

Paris Area, France

Responsible for down-hole logging of oil and gas wells. Working in remote locations in the Sahara and responsible for equipment, successful logging in minimum time and safety of 4 man crew. Continuous shifts of 24-48 hours non-stop. Fastest graduation to Field Engineer in recent history of the company.

Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

Member of a team of 6 commissioning engineers that check the completion of construction, load test the system and finally bringing the plant on-stream with British Steel operators for the Lackenby Basic Oxygen Steelmaking plant and the Redcar 14m Blast furnace. During training in the design department, wrote a computer program for calculating heat loads.

Mba, Business Administration

Bsc, Metallurgy And Materials Science, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Rowing Club

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