Dr. Alan Barrell, Angel Investor
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 a founder shareholder in Library House, Entrepreneur in Residence at the University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and Visiting Professor of Enterprise at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies. He is Visiting Professor at Xiamen University in China and Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex. Recently appointed as International Fellow, Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, he is also Chairman of Health Enterprise East Ltd, an organisation seeking to exploit innovative inventions, processes and procedures in the National Health Service within the Eastern Region.

Dr. Simon Haworth, IPSO Ventures
Simon is an investor, team builder and entrepreneur. He has been involved in the formation of 11 companies, including 7 technology companies in the last three years through investment vehicle IPSO Ventures. IPSO is listed on AIM in London and is one of the few UK entities still investing in early stage technology businesses.
The critical difference between IPSO and traditional venture capitalists is not, however, the fact that IPSO is a listed entity with an evergreen structure rather than a closed-ended fund typical of a VC. The more important differentiator is the fact that the IPSO’s investment strategy starts from an in-house assessment of demand: The IPSO team do not wait for researchers to approach them with business plans but instead stays close to major industry sources in order to spot areas of unfulfilled commercial need. The team then tests the observed market need, pulls together IP from any source and people to fit the requirements of the new entity, invests from the IPSO balance sheet and creates a new company from scratch.
This market-led, as opposed to technology-led, approach leads IPSO to describe its activity as ‘Creating products, not backing technologies’. See www.ipsoventures.com for further information.
IPSO Ventures is Simon’s primary focus but he continues to operate as a Non-Executive Director or advisor to CleanTech and Biotech companies or incubators in the UK and US, runs international team builder BSG Team Ventures with offices in London, Cambridge, Boston, New York and San Francisco, and executes his own research in to the innovation sector. He is currently analysing the difficult relationship that exists between Founders of technology companies and the venture capital investors that back them.
Simon gained his BSc and PhD (‘The growth of firms’) from the University of Reading. He lives on the South Bank in London, close to Tower Bridge. Personal interests include art/painting and country sports. Polo is his most recent new interest in this regard and Simon is delighted to introduce anyone daft enough to have a go to this fast and furious sport.
Simon.haworth@ipsoventures.com 020 7921 2990

Jeppe Leth Hansen, Bridgehead Group
Jeppe Leth Hansen has over twenty years of experience in investment banking, trade finance and real estate finance. He is founder and CEO of Bridgehead Group Limited, former Chairman of Hansen Gray & Company (HGCP) and served as transition CEO of Liquidation Bid Inc. (LQBI). Mr. Hansen has served in investment banking position with Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in New York and Miami and advised institutional investors and privately and publicity owned companies in investments, project finance and business acquisitions. He also has acted as a marketing executive and strategic planner for companies in Denmark and as operations manager for a US based Multi-national Corporation

Harald Overholm, Sustainable Technologies Fund
Harald Overholm is a part-time PhD student in the Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, focusing on the diffusion of clean technology innovations. His supervisor is Dr Elizabeth Garnsey. Harald is also an investment director with Sustainable Technologies Fund, a Nordic VC fund investing in cleantech companies. He has over five years experience in working with VC-backed companies in the ICT and cleantech sectors, both as an employee and as an investor. Harald holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering of Energy Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, a BSc in International Relations focused on Energy Security from the University of Stockholm, and is an alumnus of the Swedish Armed Forces Language Institute.