Advisors

Professor Alan Barrell; Entrepreneur in Residence, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Professor Alan Barrell has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology-based industries and has become one of Cambridge’s most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies, Xiamen University and the Shanghai College of Science and Technology. More recently, he was appointed as International Research Fellow at Laurea University of Applied Science, Entrepreneur in Residence at McMaster University and Guest Professor at Tohoku Fukushi University.
Professor Barrell currently chairs the East of England NHS Strategic Innovations Council, Health Enterprise East Limited and the Senior Advisory Board of the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), which has recruited more than 40,000 members since its formation less than a year ago. Professor Barrell is also a member of the investor groups Cambridge Angels and Sophia Business Angels and has previously chaired the Cambridge Enterprise Conference and works closely with a number of Science Parks and Innovation Centres in Cambridge, elsewhere in the UK and overseas. He received The Queen’s Award in 2006 for Enterprise Promotion and was conferred the Honour of Knight First Class, Order of the White Rose of Finland by the President of Finland in Februrary 2011.

Sherry Coutu; Serial Entrepreneur and Investor

Sherry Coutu invests in early stage companies and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. As a serial entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully exited two businesses in the financial services industry. Current company affiliations and investments include Linkedin, Cambridge University Press, RM plc, New Energy Finance, Alertme, Lovefilm, I2O, Zoopla and several others. Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince's Trust, NSPCC and NESTA.

Peter Hartzbech; iMotions-Emotion Technology, Founder & CEO

Peter is CEO and Co-Founder of iMotions-Emotion Technology. In December 2006, he was elected by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35. He worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues, and he is currently on the Jury of Young Enterprise Denmark. He has a Master’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, and attended the Schulich School of Business, Toronto; the London School of Economics; the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; and The Australian National University, Canberra. Peter's passion in global entrepreneurship makes him a much sought-after keynote speaker (e.g. CUTEC TVC, MIT Global Start-up Workshop, etc.)

Dr. Hermann Hauser; Amadeus Capital Partners, Founder & Director

Hermann is one of the UK's leading serial entrepreneurs and a founder and director of Amadeus Capital Partners. He has been involved with over 20 technology companies as a director or investor. He is currently chairman of Virata, a non-executive director of Cambridge Silicon Radio, and several other companies. He also founded Acorn Computers from which ARM and many other successful Cambridge technology companies can trace their beginnings.

Michael Liebreich; Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Head

Michael Liebreich is the head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading provider of information and research to senior investors, executives and policy-makers in clean energy and the carbon markets. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has over 140 staff working out of 11 offices around the world. Michael founded the company in 2004 and acted as Chairman and Chief Executive until its acquisition by Bloomberg at the end of 2009. Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Energy and is on the Selection Committee for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Prior to founding New Energy Finance Michael was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist (with Groupe Arnault), and executive, helping to build around 25 successful companies. In the 1990s he acted as Deputy Managing Director of Associated Press Television, Founding Director of Sports News Television and non-executive director of Interactive Investor. He also spent five years in the London office of McKinsey & Company. He is a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Michael has an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. He was a member of the British Ski Team at the 1992 Albertville Olympic Games and is Chairman of St Marks Hospital Foundation, a medical charity.

Amy Mokady; Visiting Industrial Fellow, Cambridge Computer Lab and i-Teams Programme Director, Institute for Manufacturing

Amy has held a number of senior sales, marketing and business development roles at some of the mobile industry's leading companies, working with both start-ups and multi-nationals. She was a co-founder and marketing director of STNC Ltd., a mobile start-up acquired by Microsoft in 1999. Other roles have included head of product strategy and international development at Hutchison 3G, director of business development at QUALCOMM. and vice president of sales and marketing at Light Blue Optics, a Cambridge University spin-out. She is involved in a number of early stage startups, is a trustee of the Humanitarian Centre and a Director of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Amy set up the Cambridge University i-Teams programme which she has run since inception in 2006, is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University and an advisor to both Cambridge University Entrepreneurs and CUTEC.

José Pacheco; MIT Entrepreneurship Center, Program Manager

José works closely with the Managing Director, Chairman and other members of the E-Center's team to build, develop and sustain the E-Center 's research and educational programs, events, publications, alumni outreach, and networking activities. He promotes the MIT Entrepreneurship Center 's courses, programs and activities throughout MIT, manages relations with MIT faculty, students and alumni, as well as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private and corporate donors.

Dr. Christopher Padfield; Founding Director of the Cambridge Programme for Industry and of the Corporate Liaison Office, Founding Senior Treasurer of CUTEC

Christopher Padfield joined the University to run technical and executive education, founding the Cambridge Programme for Industry in 1988, and played a significant part, alongside many others, in building bridges between the University and the entrepreneurial communities that were developing in and around Cambridge. He moved in 2000 to found the Corporate Liaison Office which concentrated on similar activities, but this time between the University and major research-intensive global companies. He has now retired from the University but retains a strong interest in fostering and facilitating entrepreneurship in and around Cambridge. He has served as Senior Treasurer for CUTEC since its foundation in 2003.

Dr. Andy Richards; Serial Biotechnology Entrepreneur and Business Angel

Dr Andy Richards is a serial Biotechnology entrepreneur and business angel. He is currently Chairman of Altacor, Novacta Abcodia and Ixico and is a director of Arecor, Summit Corp plc, PsychologyOn-line, Cancer Research Technology (commercial arm of CR-UK) and Babraham Bioscience Technology.

Andy is a Cambridge graduate with a PhD in Chemistry who spent his early career with ICI (now AstraZeneca) and with PA Technology. He was a founder of Chiroscience and an executive director through to the sale to Celltech in 1999. Since that time he has been founding and investing in new Cambridge based biotechnology companies including several of those listed above as well as Arakis, Geneservice, Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd, Amedis Pharmaceuticals, Sirus Pharmaceuticals, Daniolabs and Pharmakodex, all of which were recently sold.

He is a council member of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), a founder member of the Cambridge Angels, the founding Chairman of BIA Bioangels and an advisor to Vectura plc, CUTEC, 4D-biomedical and Toscana Life Sciences.

Dr. Shai Vyakarnam; Cambridge University Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Director

Shai is Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) part of University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He started his working career in small companies, leaving to complete his MBA and PhD at Cranfield School of Management, where he stayed on the faculty for ten years, before taking up a Chair in Enterprise at Nottingham Business School.    Since 2001, Shai has been closely involved in building the curriculum for a practitioner-led approach to education for entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge.

Together with a team of 8 and a pool of entrepreneurs in residence and a wider community of practitioners, the CfEL provides a portfolio of courses that encourage, inform and support students at the University and elsewhere to take a learning journey through entrepreneurship. Several of these courses have been copied, transplanted or redeveloped in context. One of the more influential of such courses is Enterprisers. More detail is available on www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk

Michael S. Cann Jr.

Michael is an entrepreneur and angel investor. Until recently he was co-founder and CEO of Affinio, a provider of personalized Internet search solutions. Prior to that, he consulted to technology start-ups Viagogo and Macroswiss. Previously he worked as a management consultant and as an advisor to financially troubled businesses in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan and an A.B. in Mathematics with honors from Duke University.

Jason Fuller

In 2001 Jason received an M.Phil. in engineering from Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar. He then began his PhD at MIT where he helped Hans Tung draft the initial proposal for CUTEC and I-teams which was funded by the CMI. With the support of CMI Jason recruited a number of his former Cambridge classmates to start CUTEC. Jason served as a student advisor to CUTEC from 2003-2006.