Jennifer Bromley

Jen is a Senior Commercialisation Manager for the Ceres Agri-Tech team.

She works within the ACE project, funded by Research England to support and accelerate the pathway for university spin outs and to establish a national Technology Transfer Office focussed on Agri-Tech.

Before joining Cambridge Enterprise, Jen was the Chief Scientist at Vertical Future, a start up company specialised in technologies to support controlled environment agriculture (CEA). There she led the R&D team in designing and testing new technologies, proving their utility across a range of agricultural, horticultural and forestry focussed applications.

She also worked on diversification of CEA technology beyond traditional agricultural sectors, including in the design of plant growing facilities for low Earth orbit supporting the Artemis accords alongside colleagues from Axiom Space, NASA and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. She won £5.2M in research funding and was also key member of the executive team responsible for raising over £30M of funding from family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals across Series A and B fundraises.

Prior to that Jen was a member of the Global Leaf Science and Technology leadership team at British American Tobacco, overseeing the assembly of the tobacco genome and the development of multi-omics resources to support target identification for application in complex breeding programs, working with teams in UK, USA and Brasil. This led to 9 patent filings on gene targets in 1 year.

In addition to her work at CE, she is a member of the LEAF Marque technical advisory group, an advisory board member of the UKRI Future Leader Fellows Development Network and is a by-fellow at Churchill College.

Jen has a PhD in plant molecular biology and biochemistry from the University of Cambridge where she studied plant growth regulator control of potato tuber dormancy. She carried out post-doctoral research in glycobiology and biofuels at the Universities of Cambridge and Copenhagen, and at the Joint BioEnergy Institute within Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

Jen joined the Ceres Agri-Tech team at Cambridge Enterprise in October 2025.