Sunil Shah, CEO of o2h Ventures will host a discussion around UK and USA university spinouts to help understand both the academic and entrepreneur considerations to maximise stakeholder value.

We have a highly experienced panel:

Vinit Nijhawan, an excited visionary entrepreneur building companies that have been acquired by Boeing, Motorola and Qualcomm; he has served as the Managing Director for the Office of Technology Development at Boston University and is currently the Interim Executive Director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center and Massachusetts Association of Technology Transfer Offices.

Peter Lane, works for The Sussex Innovation Centre engaging closely with the Knowledge Exchange office at the University of Sussex in supporting academics to spinout companies across a range of technologies.

Christine Martin, head of life science investments at Cambridge University, she is currently active with high profile spinouts Pharmenable, Spirea, Carrick Therapeutics, STORM Therapeutics, Z-factor, PhoreMost, Qkine and PolyProX.