SETsquared Partnership Directors of Enterprise
University of Bristol: Dr Neil Bradshaw
Research and Enterprise Development, University of Bristol, Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TH
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 7792 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 8383
Dr Neil Bradshaw is Director of Enterprise at the University of Bristol, responsible for the development of education and training in enterprise and entrepreneurship, the protection of University IPR, the support and development of technology transfer through licensing and spinout, supporting early stage companies, and improving the University's enterprise relations with industry and Government. Dr Bradshaw also is a Director of the SETSquared Partnership. He has many years of experience of working at the interface between research and industry, including working in the scientific instrumentation industry and most recently as Director of Innovation and Technology at an economic development consultancy.
University of Bath: Dr Malcolm Cross
Knowledge Transfer Services, University of Bath, Wessex House, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY
Tel: +44 (0)1225 384103 Fax: +44 (0)1225 386950
Dr Malcolm Cross is the Director of Research and Innovation Services at the University of Bath and a Director of the SETsquared Partnership. Prior to joining Bath University, he was the Director of Research and Innovation Services at Newcastle University where he was responsible for promoting research and technology transfer. He has worked in industry for more than 15 years in various technical and managerial roles developing new products and services.
University of Southampton: Dr Tony Raven
Centre for Enterprise and Innovation, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44(0)2380 593095 Fax: +44(0)02380 593585
Dr Tony Raven is the Director of Research & Enterprise Services at Southampton University and is a Director of the SETsquared Partnership. He is a Director of Southampton Innovations, Southampton Asset Management, Nanotecture plc, Mesophotonics and OHM plc. He has fifteen years experience of start up company management and financing as well as extensive international commercial and regulatory experience, particularly in North America and Japan.
University of Surrey: Mr Keith Robson
Research & Enterprise Suport, Nodus Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH
Tel: +44 (0)1483 689065 Fax: +44 (0)1483 683481
Mr Keith Robson is a Director of the SETsquared Partnership and is responsible for the strategic direction of the University of Surrey's business creation centre. Before joining the University of Surrey, Keith served as Director of Enterprise at Brunel University. Prior to that he had a career in the Electronic and Instrumentation Manufacturing sector, latterly in Managing Director roles. Mr Robson took one of his companies to a successful trade sale and set up his own spin out company in vision systems, which was later acquired by Sumitomo. During his time within the HEI sector, Mr Robson has been responsible for establishing a number of major Enterprise programmes and was founder Chairman of the WestFocus Consortium of seven London based universities. He also raised finance for early stage seed funds to support university start up companies.
Special Projects: Mr Nick Smailes
Centre for Enterprise and Innovation, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 (0)7767 685775
Mr Nick Smailes heads up the SETsquared Partnership's UK-US Science Bridge. He is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in early stage technology based enterprises. His direct start-up enterprise experience includes medical device and chemical filtration as well as CRM and smart card technologies. Mr Smailes has held non-executive and interim management roles with biotechnology and ICT start-ups and co-founded an early stage venture capital firm in 2000. He spearheaded the original SETsquared initiative that started the business incubator programme.
