David Gill

David Gill was appointed Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre in November 2008. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director of ETCapital Limited, following his tenure as a… 

 
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Martin Rigby

Martin Rigby, is managing director of ET Capital Limited. He has been a venture capital investor for over 20 years making and managing investments in over 40 innovative technology businesses,… 

 
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Paul Anson

Paul Anson was co-founder and COO of Inca Digital Printers where he created and grew a manufacturing and customer service operation turning over £25M. Backed by two prominent VC’s, Inca… 

 
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Miranda Weston-Smith

Miranda provides practical business development services for healthcare and biotech.  She advises entrepreneurs, companies and universities on marketing, new venture development and technology transfer. Miranda has 20 years’ experience of working… 

 
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Alex Smeets

Alex Smeets has a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge and worked in materials research and development for five years at Cookson Group before branching out into the support… 

 
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Bob Westrip

Bob Westrip worked for Barclays for 32 years including spells in branch banking and Large Corporate Division where he looked after Multi-National companies. During the last recession he worked in… 

 
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Andrea Cockerton

Andrea is a Cambridge-based venture market consultant that has worked alongside almost 350 entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies on pitching for venture funding and business critical deals. Previously a director of… 

 
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Peter Cowley

Peter Cowley studied Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge University, now lives near Cambridge and owns/runs small businesses in technology and construction.  His first start-up was an electronics company in… 

 
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Richard Moseley

Richard is an innovative and entrepreneurial innovation consultant with over 30 years experience in business focusing particularly on finance, marketing and the supply chain. During his career Richard has worked extensively… 

 
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Kate Atkin ACIB AAMET

Kate is an inspirational speaker, expert facilitator and author with extensive experience. Following a successful career with Barclays Bank, Kate now works with a wide variety of organisations, teams and… 

 
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Janette Pallas

Janette Pallas is the Programme manager for the Understanding Finance for Business programme and she regularly chairs workshops. Janette has wide ranging experience of working with universities and the business community,… 

 
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Hugh Parnell

Hugh is a qualified chartered accountant who has had a diverse career centred around finance, management and business development. Much of his career was spent working with/for large corporates such as… 

 
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David Moir

David Moir graduated in Business Administration in 1974.  He spent over 20 years in the manufacturing industry, first in international sales in the machine tool industry involved with global automotive… 

 
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John Goodger


John’s early career saw him working for a clearing bank and a London based fund manager.  He also spent five years as a financial journalist at the Investors Chronicle and… 

 
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Huw Edwards

Huw Edwards is part of Oxford Innovation’s team of innovation advisors.  His experience spans strategic and tactical aspects of knowledge transfer for the businesses, industries, public bodies and academic institutions,… 

 
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Vince Hagedorn

Vince has been teaching and mentoring since before 1968 and has a consistent record of working with people who are or become successful.  After work, Vince is involved with entrepreneur… 

 
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Peter Newton

Peter Newton had a long career with multi-national companies at director & senior management level.  He also has wide ranging experience of working with high-growth SMEs. In a 16 year period… 

 
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David Byford

David Byford has been running his own commercial finance business since 2004. Prior to that, he worked for Barclays for over 20 years, mainly in business banking, where he undertook… 

 
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