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Meet our Scaleup Directors, who work with clients on the Scaleup Programme. With a wealth of experience between them in commercialising and launching new innovations, collaborating with UK and international partners, protecting, and exploiting intellectual property, fundraising, and implementing finance strategies, they are uniquely positioned to help companies excel on their scaling journey.
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Adrian Allen
Adrian brings to the team over 35 years’ experience in product and systems development, intellectual property management, and investment support for SMEs.
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Aldo De Leonibus
Aldo is an experienced entrepreneur, business owner and investor. He is currently the director, shareholder/investor in 10 businesses that span from business support, renewable energy, residential and commercial property, food, accountancy, HR, and IT and across multiple countries.
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Alex Hope
Alex has 23 years’ experience in learning and development, working with some of the UKs largest household names, along with 100+ SME’s and Micro businesses. For the last 7 years he has sat on the board of directors for a £100m turnover recruitment business, who specialise in manufacturing, Supply Chain Logistics and Customer Service.
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Charles Ward
A business graduate, Charles has 30+ years commercial experience across a variety of industry sectors and has been coaching and facilitating regularly since 2014.
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Chris Ellis
Working out of St John’s Innovation Centre, Cambridge, Chris has been a Scaleup Director since August 2019 and brings 4 decades of brand building, marketing acumen and commercial strategy development experience supporting global brands and scaling SMEs with agency and client-side directorships. He ran his own marketing consultancy for 11 years. He has a mMBA in Marketing and studied at Cranfield Business School.
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Chris Price-Jones
Chris has 45 years’ experience in manufacturing, leading and being part of Research and Development teams turning ideas into commercial reality in both large corporates and SMEs.
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Chris Speakman
Chris specialises in Business Development Strategy, Leadership Development, and Finance Strategy with a Senior Management career spanning over 25 years within both Corporate and SMEs.
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Craig Kermode
Craig is a driven, knowledgeable and approachable consultant with 25yrs+ experience in B2B solution sales and organisation restructuring. Craig is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and holds a BSc (Hons) in Organisation and Management Studies.
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Dee Temple-Multon
With over 40 years of experience working with and as a director of companies in the private and public sectors, from start-up to multi-national, Dee works across all areas of industry.
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Dominic O'Regan
Dominic is an experienced business development consultant, investor and commercial project developer, with a background in medium and large companies, and currently works mainly with early stage business.
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Dr Caroline Elston-Giroud
Caroline is a driven consultant and coach with a passion for working with innovative businesses across their entire innovation, growth and funding journey. She has successfully supported businesses of all shapes and sizes including start-ups, established SMEs, large companies, and global corporations.
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Dr Giulia Sirigu
Dr Giulia Sirigu is Scale Up Director and Senior Innovation and Growth Specialist for Innovate UK Business Growth at Inventya. Giulia has over 15 years’ experience of developing international strategic relations with Latin America and Europe and enjoys helping clients access innovative international advice.
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Dr Joanne Phoenix
Joanne has a passion for helping technology-based and IP-rich companies and over the last 20 years has worked in a variety of consultancy and business support roles which have all revolved around helping companies position themselves for growth and access to funding.
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Dr Molly Price Jones
Molly has had a 40-year career in life science and medical diagnostics, starting her career as a research scientist in academia.
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Dr Rick Watson
BSc Chemistry, MSc Analytical Science (Hull) PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences Dept (Nottingham) Qualifications in Strategic Innovation Management (Cornell University, USA), Artificial Intelligence (Imperial College Business School) and Blockchain Technology (Saïd Business School, The University of Oxford).
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Elizabeth Soehren
Elizabeth is an organisational development specialist, trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience helping organisations grow and improve performance through the development of their people and processes. Elizabeth has experience as a business owner who has worked with SMEs and large organisations.
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Emma Douglas-Beet
Emma has co-founded several businesses over the last 25 years, including a Marketing Agency, Grant Support organisation and Equity Investment (Investment Readiness) business.
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Heather Abrahams
Heather has over 25 years’ experience in senior roles within both the private and public sectors. Her roles have included Client Development Consultant, Commercial Manager, Regional Business Development Manager, Account Director, Programme Director, and Investment Executive with organisations such as Capita, Logica, HSBC, QPC Group, Welsh Government, and the Development Bank of Wales.
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Heather Wright
Heather brings an extensive 25-year track record of hands-on experience at board level, driving the development and management of growing companies. Best known as the former Director of Partner Content at Aardman Animations, she played a pivotal role in the company’s transformative journey from a small animation production company to becoming one of the UK’s largest independent global film studios.
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Henry Murch
Henry has 16 years of experience as a lead adviser in a boutique corporate finance practice. Typically he works with companies that turnover between £2m and £20m as part of a small team specialising in advising on mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and fund raising. Funding sources include bank, alternative lenders, specialist debt funds, private equity and high net worth individuals.
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Ian Sterritt
Ian has over 30 years’ experience successfully commercialising disruptive innovation within both established and fast-growing companies. His innovation commercialisation expertise began through launching Sat Nav with Philips Electronics in the 1990s.