Curriculum Vitae
Innovation Strategy and Go To Market
Alta Innovation
Mar 2024 – Present
Providing strategy, structure, and delivery to innovation units and teams bringing new deeptech to market. Highly-capable market engagement, from drawing out key value propositions and identifying strong product-market fit, through to cold-start pre-sales and developing relationships with new clients.
Skills: Stakeholder Engagement
Senior Business Developer for Technology Development
TTP plc
Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs
Identifying and engaging new pre/sales opportunities matching the strengths, capabilities and ambitions of the company. Working collaboratively with colleagues to develop compelling propositions to communicate, and thought leadership and networking opportunities across business units.
Evaluating market trends and building long term relationships with VC-backed deeptech startups as well as innovation teams in major corporates. USA, UK, and Europe. Strong focus on climatetech including energy storage, carbon capture and hydrogen, as well as emerging deeptech such as quantum. Developing confidentiality agreements, and negotiating Terms of Business. Secured new £m clients.
Skills: Strategy · Strategic Planning · Renewable Energy · Deal Sourcing · Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Head of the Venture Capital Unit
Department for International Trade (DIT)
Jan 2016 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 4 mos
Directing a team of specialists to source and evaluate UK deals to match with international corporate and venture capital investors that secured £500m+ investment to the UK in 2020. Defining and implementing internal process and rigour to evaluating value of investors and UK propositions. Lead strategic initiatives relating to venture capital including cross Departmental engagement and external stakeholder engagement. Origination of suitable Cleantech and deeptech opportunities. Developing, assessing and improving investment teasers for UK startups. Advised over 1000 high-tech UK startups on refining their value propositions.
Skills: Strategy · Startups · Deal Sourcing · Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Innovation and Disruptive Technology Consultant
PA Consulting Group
May 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos
Senior consultant working with multinational clients on technology and innovation strategy. Advisory on the strategic and intellectual value, commercial viability of operational plans. Expertise in energy, remediation, water treatment. Evaluated cutting-edge technologies for blue-chip clients.
Supporting prototype development, component development and sourcing, test and design iteration, including new supply chain development and manufacturing line adaptation. Patent assessment, patent landscaping, and freedom to operate studies. Critical appraisal of emerging technologies. Assessment of intellectual assets and recommendations to inform CXO strategies. Due diligence for investors at VC stage funding levels.
Skills: Strategy · Deal Sourcing · Stakeholder Engagement · Consulting · Climate
Innovation Programme Leader
Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership
Nov 2008 – May 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos
Co-authored papers on Technology Readiness Levels and Alternative Pathways for Biofuels. Managed CXO and other senior UK automotive stakeholders to debate the challenges faced in introducing new, low-carbon technologies. Increased the number of stakeholders involved in Innovation from 20 to 100+.
Skills: Deal Sourcing · Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Senior Partnerships and Projects Manager
EnviroBusiness
Aug 2006 – Nov 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos
Leading engagement with major stakeholders and energy-focussed start-ups. Secured financing to provide expansion capital for recycling businesses. Formed and lead a network of entrepreneurs in energy technologies. Presented at regional conferences. Lead the UK’s first algae biofuels conference and involved major corporates such as Virgin and Mercedes, and 100 other stakeholders. Roadmap creation for commercial deployment.
Skills: Deal Sourcing · Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Innovation Consultant
SEEDA
Oct 2005 – Aug 2006 · 11 mos
Directed the regional programme to engage innovative businesses and support them with targeted grant funding and commercial advice. Led programmes covering Energy, Intelligent Transport Systems and Digital Health.
Skills: Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Innovation Consultant
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
2002 – 2005 · 3 yrs
Trailblazed concepts for driving UK innovation through greater insight into research, intellectual property and tools to accelerate data sharing and collaboration across sectors. Managed, piloted the first, and over several years evolved the national Knowledge Transfer Network concept. Appraised £multimillion, multi-sector programme to drive innovation through grant funding and instigated a better approach to drive commercial collaboration, now InnovateUK.
Skills: Stakeholder Engagement · Communication · Climate
Strategic Technologist
Siemens Energy · Full-time
1997 – 2003 · 6 yrs
Led modeling and economic analysis of novel thermodynamic cycle engines, increasing efficiency, reducing emissions and using of alternative fuels. Final system was capable of producing life cycle costs and payback drawn up from algorithms for designing individual blade-level components, their lifetime and costs and off-design performance. Competitor analysis.
Skills: Stakeholder Engagement · Climate
Mentor for SME Leaders Programme
Royal Academy of Engineering
Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo
Skills: Stakeholder Engagement
Springboard Judge
Shell
Feb 2016 & 2017
London and Cambridge, United Kingdom
Assessing exciting new technologies and ideas for this great competition for energy entrepreneurs.
Skills: Climate