Liversidge has been on the board of commercialisation firm IP Group since it bought its peer Fusion IP in 2014.

Doug Liversidge, a non-executive board director at UK-based commercialisation firm IP Group, will resign from the position at the end of 2017.

Liversidge has been with IP Group since the company bought its peer Fusion IP, where he was chairman, in 2014, taking on board Fusion’s commercialisation links with the universities of Sheffield, Cardiff and Swansea.

Liversidge worked for steelmaker British Steel for 21 years and had been chairman of UK-based medical apparatus producer Surgical Innovations until October 2015.

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