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This list showcases the top Cambridge based Director operating in the Manufacturing space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Chambre
Member of the Board of Directors of Spectris
Peter Chambré has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry and significant board experience, having held a number of senior and non-executive positions in healthcare companies, including as chief executive officer of Cambridge Antibody Technology Group plc (until its acquisition by AstraZeneca PLC in 2006), chairman of ApaTech Limited and non-executive director of BTG plc. Prior to that he was chief operating officer of Celera Genomics Group and chief executive of Bespak plc. Chairman of 7TM Pharma A/S, Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH and Cancer Research Technology Ltd. Director of OneMed Sverige AB and Imperial Innovations Group plc. Trustee of Cancer Research UK.
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About : Spectris is a supplier of productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls.
Girija Krishnamurthy
Executive Director Process Development of Amgen
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About Amgen: Amgen is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures human therapeutics for various illness and diseases.
Girija Krishnamurthy
Executive Director Process Development of Amgen
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About Amgen: Amgen is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures human therapeutics for various illness and diseases.
Ivor Guiney
Technical Director of Paragraf
Ivor’s experience is in physics, engineering and semiconductor materials, with focuses on solid state device development, epitaxial growth advancement and novel materials development. He has taken the lead on projects which have developed new combinations of functional materials with a view to linking innovative science with real-world applications. Throughout numerous projects, Ivor has taken charge of material deposition and characterisation for electronic and optoelectronic devices to solve issues endemic to the semiconductor industry. Ivor has held positions both in the commercial world of capital equipment manufacture and academia as a senior physicist at the University of Cambridge. He also sits on the Institute of Physics Semiconductor Committee.
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About Paragraf: Paragraf develop and deliver game-changing, commercial-quality, graphene-based electronic devices using contamination-free technology.
John Halfpenny
Director of Paragraf
John has a successful track record as a Director and CXO of several high tech and clean tech companies with experience in company level transactions in all areas of the business life cycle, including start up to sale, and floatation on AIM. John has considerable commercial experience from holding senior positions within global companies such as ARM and Texas Instruments. He has extensive international commercial experience, having negotiated IP licensing, outsourced manufacturing, distributor and joint venture agreements with organisations across Europe, Asia and the US. John has a Masters’ degree in Engineering Science from The University of Cambridge and currently holds a variety of non-executive and advisory positions within the science community, John is also a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
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About : Paragraf develop and deliver game-changing, commercial-quality, graphene-based electronic devices using contamination-free technology.
Travis Busbee
Director of Additive Manufacturing Textiles of Kornit Digital
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About Kornit Digital, Voxel8: Kornit Digital offers digital printing solutions for the printed textile industry.
Paul Wilson
Director of Product Marketing of Kandou Bus
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About Kandou Bus: KANDOU specializes in the design of high-speed, and pin- and energy-efficient chip-to-chip links, SerDes, and associated technologies.
Mark Catchpole
Commercial Director of Conductive Transfers
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About Conductive Transfers: Conductive Transfers is a British smart technology brand.
Ann Simon
Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Lumacron Technology Ltd
Ann Simon has worked in finance, particulary in the life sciences and technology sectors, since 1985. Ann is currently a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors at Scientific Digital Imaging (where she chairs the audit committee) and Lumacron and is providing consultancy in the areas of finance, strategic planning, enablement and funding to development-stage life sciences companies including Peptinnovate and OBS Medical. Over the past 15 years Ann has held roles including chairman of OBS Medical and Chief Financial Officer of Pyreos, mLED, Sphere Medical Holding, Genosis, Mirada Solutions, NextGen Sciences, e-San and Bioglan Pharma. Prior to that Ann undertook corporate finance advisory work at Cazenove & Co. over more than a decade for clients ranging from start-ups to FTSE100 companies. Ann has managed IPOs (London full list and AIM), corporate acquisitions and trade sales and fund raisings in the public and private markets. Ann was on the FSA’s Financial Information Theme Team from 2002 to 2003. Ann earned her Ph.D. and B.A. degrees in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
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About : Lumacron’s products target the monitoring of next generation packet-optical networks.
Steve Bennett
Co-Founder and Managing Director of WOOF & BREW Limited
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About WOOF & BREW Limited: WOOF&BREW is a beverage company that produces healthy and herbal doggy teabags.
Sebastian Bain
Director & COO at Advanet Inc of Advanet
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About Advanet: Advanet Inc. is a leading provider of industrial embedded board computers and systems designed, developed, and manufactured in Japan.
Director, Software Design of Sustainable Minds
Greg brings 17 years of experience designing Web-based software and large-scale Web sites. He has extensive experience with start-ups and early-stage product design, designing great products right from the start. His multidisciplinary skill-set includes product strategy, interaction design, information architecture, visual design and branding. Previous experience includes positions with The Beam and GreenBuildingBlocks.com, StillSecure, Razorfish and TSDesign.
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About Sustainable Minds: Sustainable Minds is a cloud software and services company.
Paul Cain
Strategy Director of FlexEnable
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About FlexEnable: FlexEnable is the global leader in the development and industrialization of organic electronics for flexible displays and sensors.
Paul Cain
Strategy Director of FlexEnable
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About FlexEnable: FlexEnable is the global leader in the development and industrialization of organic electronics for flexible displays and sensors.
Simon Drexler
Director, Linear Motion Technology of ATS Automation Tooling Systems
Simon Drexler is the director of Linear Motion Technology at ATS Automation.
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About ATS Automation Tooling Systems: ATS Automation Tooling Systems is an automation technology to scale advanced factory automation solutions.
