People
Board members
Find out more about the members of the Board at Cambridge Enterprise.
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Edward Benthall
Edward Benthall is a partner at Charterhouse Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London. He is also an active participant in the Cambridge business angel community, through his membership of the Cambridge Capital Group.
Mr Benthall, who read Modern and Medieval Languages at Magdalene College, is also Chairman of the 800th Anniversary Campaign Council, a group of key volunteers whose support for Collegiate Cambridge has helped the Campaign to raise over 940 million to date.
He has been a key supporter of the University of Cambridge Discovery Fund, one of three evergreen funds managed by the Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds team. The Discovery Fund, which was launched in 2008 as part of the 800th Anniversary Campaign, provides vital pre-seed and seed funding for commercial ideas originating from University research.
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Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton has been at the forefront of successive waves of technology innovation – computing; broadband communications; information services; digital mapping and location based services; and Web 2.0. He is a Director of Library House; Cambridge Enterprise; Solarflare Communications; Feeva Technology; property research portal Terabitz in the US and founder of Terabitz Limited in the UK; a Supervisory Board member of Tele Atlas, the Euronext Amsterdam and Frankfurt Exchange listed supplier of digital maps; an investor in and adviser to venture capital firms; and a business angel.
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Professor Sir Richard Friend
Richard Friend has been on the Faculty in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, since 1980, where he is the Cavendish Professor of Physics. Professor Friend has pioneered the study of organic polymers as semiconductors, and his research group has demonstrated that these materials can be used in wide range of semiconductor devices, including light-emitting diodes and transistors. He has been very active in the process of technology transfer of this research to development for products. He co-founded Cambridge Display Technology Ltd in 1994. Light-emitting polymer displays developed by Cambridge Display Technology are now being manufactured under licence and are now used in a number of consumer products. He co-founded Plastic Logic Ltd in 2000 to develop directly-printed polymer transistor circuits, and these are now being developed as flexible active-matrix backplanes for e-paper displays. He is currently working on the use of polymer and related materials for thin-film photovoltaic diode applications.
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Professor Lynn Gladden
Professor Lynn Gladden CBE, FRS, FREng is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research for the University of Cambridge.
Professor Gladden is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, and formerly Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology; she is also a member of the Council of EPSRC. Professor Gladden leads the activities at the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, and has a particular interest in applying magnetic resonance imaging techniques in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis and multi-phase transport in porous media. She is also a Fellow of Trinity College.
Professor Gladden is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. She is also a chartered engineer and chartered chemist.
In 1996 she was awarded a Miller Visiting Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley and in 2000, the Tilden lectureship and silver medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She received the Beilby Medal and Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1995, and the Tilden Medal and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Chemistry for the year 2001/2002. In 2009she was awarded a CBE for services to science.
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Dr Richard Jennings
Richard is Deputy Director of Cambridge Enterprise and a board member of both Cambridge Enterprise and its wholly owned consultancy company, Cambridge University Technical Services (CUTS). He is also Chair of the board of Ifm Education and Consultancy Services Ltd, the Institute for Manufacturing's knowledge transfer company.
Formerly, Richard was Head of Chemical Research at Napp Research Centre on the Cambridge Science Park. He joined the University as Assistant Director for Industrial Cooperation of the Wolfson Cambridge Industrial Unit, with responsibility for biomedical projects, in 1988. In 1994, he became Director and also joined the board of the University's technology transfer company, now called Cambridge Enterprise. Richard was appointed Director of Research Policy in 2000 and joined Cambridge Enterprise in 2005 to establish its consultancy business.
Richard has a very extensive track record of establishing mutually beneficial university-industry collaborations and commercialising University-derived intellectual property through consultancy, licensing and spin-off companies.
He has a D. Phil in Chemistry from the University of Sussex, is a non-executive director of Granta Design Ltd and a Fellow of St Edmund's College.
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Dr Mike Lynch
Dr Lynch read Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge and went on to complete a PhD in mathematical computing, followed by a research fellowship in adaptive pattern recognition.
In 1996, he founded Autonomy, the UK's largest software company by market capitalisation and a member of the FTSE 100. The company specialises in Meaning Based Computing, a unique set of technologies which enable the searching and processing of structured and unstructured information to provide the most relevant content for users.
The company has joint headquarters in Cambridge and San Francisco, and counts amongst its customers Coca-Cola, the BBC, Boeing, Adobe and the New York Stock Exchange.
Dr Lynch has held a number of advisory and board roles in the venture capital industry and is currently a non-executive director of the BBC. He was named the Confederation of British Industry's Entrepreneur of the Year, the European Business Leaders Awards' Innovator of the Year for pioneering new approaches to search and information processing technology, and Management Today's Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. He won an IEE Award for Outstanding Achievement and was awarded an OBE for Services to Enterprise. He is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Lady Margaret Beaufort Fellow of Christ's College and the author of a number of academic papers on the subject of Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing.
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Professor Tony Minson
Tony Minson graduated in Microbiology from the University of Birmingham and subsequently studied the genetics of Neurospora Crassa for a PhD degree from the Australian National University. His research career has been devoted almost entirely to the study of viruses, primarily herpes viruses.
He joined the University of Cambridge in 1976, became Professor of Virology in 1991 and served as Chairman of the School of Biological Sciences from 2001 – 2003. In 2003 he was appointed Pro-Vice -Chancellor for Planning and Resources for a six-year term. He currently deputises for the Vice Chancellor as Chairman of the Cambridge University Press Syndicate.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a trustee of the Animal Health Trust and a trustee of the Lister Institute.
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Dr Tony Raven
Dr Tony Raven joined Cambridge Enterprise as Chief Executive in December 2011. Previously he was Director of Research & Innovation Services at the University of Southampton, where he helped establish Southampton’s international reputation as a leading entrepreneurial university, creating a portfolio of 11 spin-out companies with four listings on the London Stock Exchange.
After graduating with a First in physics from Manchester University, he obtained his MSc and DPhil from the University of Oxford. He worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories and Osaka University before joining Cambridge-based PA Consulting in 1983.
In 1985 he was a founder of Summit Technology, the market leader in laser refractive surgery, which was acquired by Nestle Alcon in 2000 for $893 million. In 1987 he co-founded Cambridge-based Sagentia Group plc, a technical and management consultancy which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. In 1991 he founded Diomed Inc, a pioneer and world leader in therapeutic medical diode lasers, and served as CEO and Deputy Chairman until 2000.
Dr Raven is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Member of the Institute of Directors.
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Professor Florin Udrea
Dr Udrea is a College Fellow in Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is in the Power Electronics Group in the Electrical Engineering Division. He is also a member of Girton College.
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Ms Teri F. Willey
Teri worked as Chief Executive for Cambridge Enterprise (CE) between 2006 and 2011. Prior to CE, Teri was a Managing Partner of ARCH Development Partners (ADP), a seed and early stage venture fund focused on university and corporate spin-outs. Teri, a founder of ADP, participated as a Director on portfolio company, community and venture capital Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards, as a University of Notre Dame Business School Adjunct Professor and continues as an Advisor to ADP. Prior to the start of ADP, Teri was Vice President of Start-ups at ARCH Development Corporation, a subsidiary of the University of Chicago, which commercialised technology from the University and Argonne National Laboratory. Her experience includes technology transfer roles at Northwestern University, Purdue University and in industry. Teri has been an advisor to policy makers, universities and companies and is a past President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM). Teri is a Bye-Fellow of Christ's College and a Senior Member of Hughes Hall.