Mike Carr OBE FREng is currently a Non-Executive Director for Ploughshare Innovations Ltd, a Board member of the ERA Foundation and a member of the Enterprise Hub Board at the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for the year 2018/2019Mike is the former Chief Science Officer for BT where he was responsible for the company’s world-leading research and commercial exploitation unit, including patent licensing and corporate venturing activities.He has several patents to his name in the field of video compression and is the holder of two prestigious BT awards; the Martlesham Medal for R&D and the BT Gold medal for leading multimedia product developments. From 1999 Mike was based in Silicon Valley, California, USA where he established BT’s US Technology office and Corporate Venturing activity. He returned to the UK in 2001 to lead BT’s Research & Venturing division. More recently he has been a Council Member of the EPSRC, a Board Member of Innovate UK, a NED at Ordnance Survey Ltd and Chairman of Astigan Ltd.He received an OBE for “services to innovation” in 2017.