United Kingdom
The science and innovation ecosystem is where I've spent most of my career, and I still find it genuinely exciting. Brilliant people, hard problems, and the particular challenge of building environments where the work can actually happen. That's been my focus: creating and running the spaces, institutions and programmes that give science and technology entrepreneurs, and the scientists who become them, a real platform. Across managed workspace, commercial property, innovation infrastructure and education and engagement, I've worked on the operational, commercial and strategic questions that sit behind the science. My experience spans almost fifteen years across the Oxford ecosystem and the broader UK science and technology landscape, including senior roles at The Oxford Trust and Oxford Innovation Space. I hold an MBA and a BSc (Biochem) from the University of Bath. I'm also Co-Chair of Trustees at Justice in Motion, where performing arts meet social justice. A different context, but the same underlying question: how do you create the conditions for something important to happen? My career has been deliberately varied. I think that's a feature. Trying to make myself useful.
Retained as a specialist advisor to Oxford Innovation Space, providing strategic input on science and technology matters as the organisation evolves. My advisory work draws on four and a half years of network-building, business development and operational leadership across the portfolio covering new centre development, sector partnerships, client relationships and mobilisation strategy. This is a deliberately flexible arrangement, designed to maintain continuity of expertise during a period of change while giving me the space to pursue other work.
A senior leadership role at the commercial and operational heart of Oxford Innovation Space's laboratory network. Reporting to the Managing Director, I led business development for the science and technology offer; identifying new opportunities, building partnerships, and working to expand the laboratory centre portfolio nationally. I chaired the expert operations group responsible for centre delivery across the network, and held responsibility for the mobilisation function which encompassed overseeing the operationalisation of new centres from initial planning through to day-one operations. The role required working across a wide range of stakeholders: science park operators, research institutions, commercial partners, investors and local authorities. It was as much about relationship-building and strategic positioning as it was about operational delivery.
Responsible primarily for mobilising centres joining our network. Other duties as required.
Justice in Motion uses the performing arts to illuminate and challenge social injustice, making work that is artistically serious and socially purposeful. I've been involved with the organisation since December 2020, first as a trustee, then as Chair from February 2022. In early 2025 I brought on a co-chair, deliberately building a more distributed leadership model that gives the board resilience and reduces dependence on any one individual. As co-chair I contribute to governance, strategic direction and stakeholder relationships while supporting the organisation's mission to use the performing arts as a lever for change. www.justiceinmotion.co.uk
Led the board through three years of post-pandemic recovery and strategic development.
Foundation period on the board, contributing to governance and building understanding of the organisation's mission and model.
A focused, part-time engagement to oversee the laboratory fit-out at the Wood Centre for Innovation: bringing early-stage life science and high-tech R&D companies into a new facility while managing the complexity of live occupation, technical requirements and multiple contractor relationships. The project required close coordination with incoming tenants to ensure fit-out specifications met their research and operational needs from day one.
A broad executive leadership role with responsibility for the operational performance of the Trust across all its activities, from managed workspace and property to STEM education and enterprise support programmes. I led the operations function through a period that included the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining business continuity across the Trust's estate and supporting tenants and programme participants through significant disruption. On the enterprise side, I took the lead on the Trust's mission-driven work supporting science and technology entrepreneurs: connecting the commercial and charitable aspects of what the Trust does. The role required working across a wide stakeholder base: occupiers, funders, board members, local authorities, partner organisations and the wider Oxford innovation ecosystem.
Principally responsible for the development and delivery of the Stansfeld Project, the Trust's flagship £13m capital programme to create a new Science Education and Innovation Centre set within 18 acres of woodland on the edge of Oxford. I led the project from detailed planning through practical completion, working across design, procurement, construction and commissioning. This involved close management of the professional team, contractor relationships, budget and programme, as well as coordination with the Trust's funders, board and stakeholders throughout. The finished centre (now a significant asset for the Trust's science education mission) brought together laboratory, classroom, woodland and enterprise space in a single integrated facility. Alongside the capital project, I held a broad operational remit across the Trust's activities during this period.
Science Oxford is The Oxford Trust's public-facing brand: the organisation's mission expressed outward into the city, encouraging the pursuit of science across schools, communities and the wider public. As General Manager I held day-to-day responsibility for the operational and administrative running of the organisation, working as part of the senior management team. The role combined organisational management with project delivery: taking special projects from concept through to completion, often under significant time and resource constraint. This was a generalist leadership role in the best sense - broad enough to build real operational range, and purposeful enough to matter.
Early in my career with The Oxford Trust, providing operational and administrative support across the organisation: office and facilities management, board support, and direct assistance to the CEO. A grounding in how a purpose-driven science organisation actually functions day to day.
A formative period running my own practice across artist management, production management and live sound engineering, working with a range of touring acts across the UK. Projects included artist management for The Longest Johns; tour management and front-of-house engineering for SoS; production management for The Prodigals and Luv Esther; and various freelance sound engineering engagements. Live events taught me things that no MBA does: how to deliver under pressure with finite resources, how to read a room, and how to lead people who have no particular reason to follow you unless you're worth following.