Richard Holliday has cofounded and invested in university spinouts.
Richard Holliday has joined the University of Manchester Innovation Factory, the UK university’s technology transfer arm, as its materials and manufacturing expert-in-residence.
Holliday has more than two decades of experience in research commercialisation, industry and investment.
He is the cofounder of M2i2, a University of Sheffield spinout developing generative-AI large language models and physics-based models to understand material behaviour. He was also the chief operating officer of Bodle Technologies, a spinout from the University of Oxford developing low power optoelectronic technology.
Holliday was the lead in IP licensing and new ventures at Oxford University Innovation, the technology transfer arm of the UK university, between 2012 and 2016.
More recently, he was the head of new ventures at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and an expert-in-residence in materials and manufacturing for the Northern Triangle Mentor Network, a consultancy providing commercialisation expertise to researchers at Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds universities.
“Manchester and the wider Northern Triangle, which includes Leeds and Sheffield, is fast becoming one of the UK’s commercialisation hotspots,” said Holliday in a release. “After many years in the Oxford ecosystem, it is clear the same key ingredients are here too: world class science, investors, industry and highly supportive commercialisation teams. It should be a lot of fun.”
