The office has appointed three directors and two advisers including Russell Cowburn, professor of experimental physics, and Cancer Research UK's Tony Hickson.
Cambridge Enterprise, the tech transfer subsidiary of University of Cambridge, has appointed three new directors and two advisers to its governing board.
The appointments include Russell Cowburn (pictured), a professor of experimental physics at Cambridge who previously worked for institutions including Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and Patrick Maxwell, a professor of physics who heads the School of Clinical Medicine.
Anna Vignoles, professor of education and former adviser to UK government departments including the Department for Education, has also joined the board alongside Tony Hickson, chief business officer at research charity Cancer Research UK (CRUK), whose responsibilities at CRUK include commercial partnerships.
Hickson was previously managing director of Imperial College London’s tech transfer office, Imperial Innovations, and served on the executive committee for commercialisation firm IP Group from late 2017.
Cambridge Enterprise also selected Lesley Millar-Nicholson, director of the technology licensing office at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose prior experience includes ten years at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign directing that institution’s Office of Technology Management.
The additions come in light of three recent departures from the governing board, including academic non-executive director Florin Udrea, who stood down in 2018, and his peer Alan Blackwell, who will leave in September this year.
Tim Cook, a former head of University of Oxford’s tech transfer operation, finished up his adviser role at the end of 2018.
Cambridge Enterprise’s board consists of three external non-executive directors and two academic non-executive directors, as well as the chief executive, non-executive chair, deputy director and pro-vice-chancellor for enterprise and business relations.
The university is represented by its director of finance, while its senior administrative officer, the registrar, acts as Cambridge Enterprise’s secretary.
