Workshop #5: Speakers

Experiencing Technology Transfer in Cambridge
October 18-20, 2009, at University of Aveiro
Program | Speakers | Participants | Photos

Speakers

David Gill
Head of St John’s Innovation Centre (the largest and most important incubator in the UK)
David Gill has been Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre since December 2008. Before that, he was a director of ETCapital Limited, following a year as a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. He is also an official Visitor at the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge. (more…)

Richard Jennings
Director of Tech Transfer; Cambridge Enterprise
Richard is Director of Technology Transfer and Consultancy Services, responsible for two core areas of Cambridge Enterprise Limited’s activities. He is a board member of both Cambridge Enterprise Limited and its wholly owned consultancy company, Cambridge University Technical Services Limited (CUTS). Richard is also Chair of the board of Cambridge Manufacturing Industry Links Ltd, the Institute for Manufacturing’s knowledge transfer company. (more…)

Peter Hiscocks
Previous Director of Cambridge Enterprise
Peter has taught entrepreneurship and innovation management at the University of Cambridge for many years. He was Director of the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre at the Judge Business School (see Peter’s JBS homepage), and was also Director of Cambridge Enterprise. He currently teaches entrepreneurship for several course at IfM as well as continuing to teach at the Judge Business School. He is managing several research projects on the success factors for new hi tech business ventures. (more…)