Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP10) Entrepreneurship and Innovation (1L)

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Drs Simon Turner (Alacrita Consulting) & Tim Guilliams

Speaker Biographies: Simon Turner is a Partner of specialist life-science consulting company Alacrita, focusing on strategic and technology commercialisation issues in pharmaceuticals and life science technologies for institutional IP owners, biotechs and pharmaceutical companies. Simon has an MA in Natural Sciences and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Cambridge. After an early career as a bench scientist at Eli Lilly and ICI Agrochemicals, Simon joined 3i plc, where he was responsible for a number of venture capital investments across a range of sectors. Moving into strategic management consulting, first at Arthur D Little and latterly Andersen Consulting, over 10 years Simon advised blue chip life science companies on issues related to business strategy, technology management & product commercialization. In 2000, Simon became Chief Executive of Cambridge spin-out, Biotica Technology, an early stage venture-capital backed drug-discovery company based on microbial genetic engineering, which he led for five years. He has since 2005 been involved as investor and advisor to research-based life science companies and IP owners.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

Lecture

1 hour