For the University Start a company or social venture Entrepreneurs in Residence

Meet our Entrepreneurs in Residence

 Our Entrepreneurs in Residence offer valuable in-house expertise to advise academics on starting a new company.

Their role is to provide general advice to academics on how they might commercialise their technologies, and to help founders develop their business propositions before pitching to our Seed Funds team. They have hands-on experience starting early stage technology businesses, including developing pitches, raising finance and building teams. Their involvement at an early stage also means possible opportunities for continued backing and an association with the company in the future.

Current Entrepreneurs in Residence

Paul Bailey 

Paul is Managing Director of Martlet Capital Ltd an early-stage investment fund providing seed capital to deep technology companies. He joined Martlet Capital as an Investment Director in January 2019 with a particular focus on talent management across the existing portfolio, deal origination and overall operational matters.

Paul sits on the Board of Deeptech Labs a Cambridge based accelerator and fund which runs a custom built programme for two cohorts a year of world class deeptech early stage companies.

In 1998 Paul co-founded Bailey Fisher Executive Search and led the growth of the business as Managing Director for 20 years during which time he built the boards and management teams for some of the most innovative companies to have emerged from the European technology market. After a successful exit In July 2018, he took on the role of Executive Chairman. Paul stepped down from the Board of Bailey Fisher in October 2021.

In the 2016 Paul was named in the Maserati 100 list of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs, mentors and advisors supporting the next generation of business talent and was recognised as one of the most influential business people in Cambridge in 2017. He has held advisory roles with NESTA Impact Investments and New Wave Ventures and was previously a member of the steering committee for the ideaSpace Enterprise Accelerator, a member of the Board of Cambridge Ahead and a founder of The Perse School Enterprise Conference.

Paul joined Cambridge Enterprise as an Entrepreneur in Residence in January 2019.

Paul Bailey Entrepreneur in Residence

Jamal Butt

Jamal has over 30 years’ experience and expertise leading teams in large global organisations, in addition to scaling up a number of start-ups.

He qualified as a pharmacist and specialises in innovation in healthcare companies driving services, products and technology, across both private and public sectors.

Jamal is currently the CEO for MedAdvisor UK, one of the world’s largest digital technology medicines management platforms, whose purpose is to help address the global problem of non-adherence. Expertise on data driven insights, strategic planning and UX design product development.

He currently holds a number of Non-Executive Director board positions, including Croydon NHS Hospital and is also Chairman of the Croydon Health Charity. He has an in-depth knowledge of the NHS, governance and the importance of real-world evidence.

Previous roles included Head of UK Healthcare services at LloydsPharmacy UK, which supported the creation of innovative NHS integrated services across primary, secondary and social care. At Boots UK, he has also been Head of Pharmacy, and then Director of Healthcare solution Development creating new models of care which helped transform the pharmacy operations and services offering in primary and secondary care sectors across the UK. He was also Commercial Director at iWGC, as it moved from start up to having contracts covering 27 countries.

Jamal is a strong advocate for EDI and is a member of the Seacole group, a network of NHS Non-Executive Directors who have a vision that the NHS boards should reflect the ethnic diversity of patients and communities they serve. He is also a keen runner, basketball fan and occasional golfer.

In 2018, Jamal was appointed a ‘fellow’ of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, for his services to the Pharmacy profession.

Jamal joined Cambridge Enterprise as an Entrepreneur in Residence for life sciences in June 2022. Please reach out to him on eir-ls@enterprise.cam.ac.uk for any support to help commercialise your idea to market.