Industrial Advisory Board Members

Courtney Hohne

Courtney Hohne
Google X - fmr Chief Storyteller for Moonshots. Founder, CMH Collective, fueling and protecting 10X

Dan Garrett

Dan Garrett
Co-founder and CEO of Farewill, a multi-award company changing the way the world deals with death

Dr David Sharp

Dr David Sharp
Head of Autonomous Mobility at Ocado Technology

Dr. Ruoyi Zhou

Dr. Ruoyi Zhou
Director, Discovery Accelerator Partnership, IBM Research

Fernando Castro

Fernando Castro
Department Head of Science at the National Physical Laboratory

George O’Connor

George O’Connor
Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Enterprise Mobility in Europe

Gero Kempf

Gero Kempf
ADAS/AD Executive Vice President in Engineering Department at AUDI AG

Jessi Baker

Jessi Baker
MBE, Designer, Technologist, and Founder of provenance.org

Kate Fanning

Kate Fanning
Design Research Lead,responsible for digital design research at Kingfisher

Katie Young

Katie Young
Head of Commercial, Schroders Personal Wealth

Patrik Lei CEng

Patrik Lei CEng
Senior Data Science Manager at Nissan Motor Corporations Global Customer Experience Department

Pierre Paslier

Pierre Paslier
Cofounder & Co-CEO, Notpla

Prof. Navin Ramachandran

Prof. Navin Ramachandran
Member of Board of directors for the IOTA Foundation

Dr Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez

Dr Rebeca Santamaria-Fernandez
Director, Business & Corporate Development, DeepMind

Simon Daniel

Simon Daniel
Simon is an entrepreneur & innovator & former founder/CEO of Moixa Energy (acquired by Lunar Energy

Stephen Dimbylow

Stephen Dimbylow
Head of New Product Innovation Dyson (Floorcare)

Sumitesh Das

Sumitesh Das
Director Research & Development, Tata Steel UK Limited

Will Butler-Adams OBE CEng FRGS FCGI FIMechE

Will Butler-Adams OBE CEng FRGS FCGI FIMechE
Chief Executive Officer, Brompton Bicycle

Previous IAB Members

  1. Dr Kedar Pandaya, Director, Cross-Council Programmes, UKRI. He is responsible to develop exciting Cross-Council opportunities in emerging technology
  2. Govind Balakrishnan, CEO Curio. Curio is an intelligent audio app that curates the best of journalism for busy people on the go
  3. Dr Tan, PepsiCo R&D External Innovation Senior Principal Tech Scout, focuses on building partner networks for the PEP Wellness & Health Management
  4. Dan O Boyle, Director of Operations; Fraser Dunn, Technical Director - Aston Martin
  5. Marco Rocchetto, Technical Lead; Product Innovations - Konica-Minolta
  6. Joel Obstfeld, Chief Architects Office Engineer - Cisco
  7. Ian Forrester, Senior Producer - BBC Research & Development
  8. Abigail Sellen, Principal Researcher and Deputy Director - Microsoft Research Cambridge
  9. Nathalie Martin, Senior Scientist and Head of Behaviour and Perception - Nestle
  10. Christian Saclier, Global Head of Design - Nestle
  11. Roy Burek, CEO - Charles Owen
  12. Mike Ashmid, CEO - Cellbond
  13. Phil Martin, Senior Researcher - Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)
  14. Dr Rajab Said, Academic and R&D Collaboration Manager - ESI Group
  15. Dr Yijiang Wu, Business Innovation Leader - Cisco
  16. Bobby Zaman, Operation Manager - Cisco
  17. Nick Chrissos, Director of Innovation (Europe) - Cisco
  18. Graham Brett, MD - Therefore Design
  19. Joe White and Wendy Tan White
  20. Glen Robinson and Peter Schwabach - Shield Investment Management
  21. Alex van Someren - Amadeus Capital
  22. Charlotte Heard and Alex Bone - Mettle
  23. Alexander Sheen - Boeing
  24. Stephen Knowles, MD - IDC
  25. Jamie Bates, Global Design Excellence Leader - Unilever
  26. Mark Delaney, Head of Huawei London Design Studio - Huawei

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