Meet the team

Find the expert who can move your idea, project or organisation forward with the insights, connections and support you need.

View members of the team by function:

• Business and innovation partnerships
• Commercialisation
• Consultancy
• Entrepreneurship
• Knowledge exchange policy and funding 
• Engagement and communications
• Information and project management
• Finance

Office and directorate support

• Dr Kathryn Walsh - Executive Director, UCL Innovation & Enterprise
• Dominique Drai - Departmental Manager
• Zainab Antoine - PA to the Directors
• Melissa Lamptey - Systems Support Manager 
• Cecilia Ngala - Administrative Assistant
• Madalina Rau - HR Officer

Business and innovation partnerships

• Dr Michael Reynier - Acting Director of Business and Innovation Partnerships 

Creative industries

• Jo Townshend - Principal Partnerships Manager (Creative Industries)
• Annesah Al Harbi - Partnerships Manager (Creative Industries)

Pharma and healthcare

• Dr Brian Carter - Principal Partnerships Manager (Pharma & Healthcare)
• Dr Vassilis Georgiadis - Principal Partnerships Manager (Pharma & Healthcare)

Technology, engineering and built environment

• Andrew Huddart - Principal Partnerships Manager (New Technologies, Energy & Engineering Sectors)
• Dr Ann Thorpe - Senior Partnerships Manager (Advanced Urban Systems)
• Dr Laura Bovo - Innovation Networks Manager

Public sector and the professions

• Dr Michael Reynier - Principal Partnerships Manager (Public Sector & the Professions)
• James Jennings - Senior Partnership Manager (Public Sector)
• Dr Helen Tsui - Partnership Manager (Public Sector)

SMEs

• Kemil Thomas - Senior Partnerships Manager (High Growth SMEs)
• Rebecca Robinson - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Project Coordinator
• Nishat Tasnim - Business and Innovation Partnerships & Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Administrator  

Global Innovation

• Garry Boyle - Innovation Adviser
• Isabelle Etheridge - Events and Marketing Officer
• Jonathan Grinbaud - Innovation Adviser
• Stefan Nardi-Hiebl - Innovation Adviser
• Miriam Newman-Tancredi - Innovation Analyst
• Lisa Stafford - Innovation Adviser

Commercialisation

• UCL Business (UCLB) - via the main UCLB website

Consultancy

• UCL Consultants (UCLC) - via the main UCL Consultants website 

Entrepreneurship

• Jerry Allen - Director for Entrepreneurship
• Terry J Hosten - Operations Manager for Entrepreneurship
• Dr Ruth Weir - Head of Entrepreneurship
• Darius Gadeikis - Entrepreneurship Advisor
• Jivko Hristov - Entrepreneurship Advisor
• Alexandra Isevski - Entrepreneurship Advisor

Knowledge exchange policy and funding

Policy

• Dr Kathryn Walsh - Executive Director, UCL Innovation & Enterprise
• Lydia Harwood - Strategy and Policy Manager
• Dr Samuel Drake - Policy Support Officer

Knowledge exchange and funding

• Ed Harris - Head of Finance and Innovation Funding
• Mariana Trejo - Knowledge Exchange Manager

Engagement and communications

• Jane Botros - Director of Engagement & Communications
• Wendy Tester - Communications Manager
• Sam Duran - Communications Officer
• Eleanor Mason - Communications Officer

Information and project management 

• Krista Macmillan - Head of Knowledge Exchange Policy and Projects

Programme and project management

• Susannah Steele - Senior Project Manager
• Victoria Banks - Project Officer
• Miriam Sandford - Project Officer

Web and UX management

• Charlotte Harry - Web & UX Manager 
• Caroline May - Web Content Editor

Data management

• Nicolás Ulloa Olguin - Data Manager and Management Information Analyst
• Harshila Rana - Data Business Analyst

Finance

• Ed Harris - Head of Finance and Innovation Funding
• Meera Gohil - Senior Finance Officer