Interactive CUTEC Workshop: How to Build a Winning Team

Stephen Lowery

Stephen joined 3i in 2001, specialising in investments in technology businesses. Prior to joining 3i, he worked in the Global Technology Practice of PA Consulting, advising companies on product development, process development and technology strategy, Stephen is focused on investments in IT hardware, specifically consumer electronics, semiconductors and displays and advanced materials. His investments include UbiNetics which successfully realised its divisions to CSR (LSE:CSR) and Aeroflex (NSDQ:ARXX), Microemissive Displays (AIM:MED) and Respond. He has also led current invesments into Insensys, Metalysis and Nujira and sits on the board of Deepstream.

Stephen has a MEng degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Adrian Cable

Adrian is the CTO of Light Blue Optics and is responsible for the overall projection system architecture, as well as development of the computational algorithms. In addition, Adrian leads the New Product Concepts Group that has been responsible for much of the patented innovation within the Company. Adrian has a degree in electronic engineering from Cambridge University and his PhD focused on holographic optics, projection technology, and simulation and modelling of complex optical systems. He is one of the founders of Light Blue Optics.

Mark de Rond

Mark has been involved in executive teaching and/or consultancy with various organisations, including IBM, McKinsey, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Groupe Limagrain, the Berrien County Economic Development Department, Shell Exploration, the Department for Education and Skills, OfCom, Stephenson Harwood, Coventry Building Society, Anglia Water Group, and Diageo. His research has featured in The Economist, TIME magazine, The Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Week, De Volkskrant, Het Financieel Dagblad, and on the radio. He regularly reviews for the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and various other journals, as well as for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

John Cavill: Founder/Principal Consultant Intermezzo Ventures Ltd

Following early career experience in electronic engineering with the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Unilever Research, John moved into sales and marketing roles for American scientific instrumentation and control manufacturers. In 1988 John founded Logical Networks plc, a UK networking services business funded by 3iplc. Nine years later, when annual sales had grown to £50 million, the company was acquired by Datatec Ltd (a Johannesburg Stock Exchange Top 40 public company) and John subsequently became a main Board director with responsibility for European acquisitions and business development. In 2000 John left Datatec to found Intermezzo Ventures Ltd, a new venture research and consulting firm, which also provides business mentoring and executive coaching to high growth companies.

John holds an MA in Company Direction from Leeds Metropolitan University and is currently a Visiting Fellow at Henley Management College, where he is conducting doctoral research into the Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Teams. John is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Chartered Director, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Chartered Marketer. In 1995 John received an EFER (European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research) award as 'one of Europe's Top 500 Dynamic Entrepreneurs' and in 1998 was nominated by 3i Plc for the 'FT/Cartier Venturer of the Year Award'.

John is non exec Chairman and lead investor in Creating Careers Ltd, the UK's market leader in vocational online learning solutions for senior schools and FE colleges. He is also a member of the IoD Chartered Director Accreditation Interview Panel.

Stephen has a MEng degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

William Bains

William was educated in London, and at Oxford where he gained a 1st in biochemistry. After a PhD at Warwick and Postdoc at Stanford, California, William held a lectureship at University of Bath, researching inter alia genomics and bioinformatics technologies and what is now called 'functional genomics'. In 1988 he joined a technology consultancy, developing new life-science based technologies such as Sequencing by Hybridization (which he co-invented), and evaluating new technology opportunities in biotech. and pharmaceuticals. In October 1996 he joined Merlin Ventures, a specialist bioscience investment group, to head the science team co-founding and funding new bioscience companies in the UK. William wrote most of the first round business plans for Cyclacel, Eurogene (now Ark Therapeutics), Microscience.

In 1999 William founded Amedis Pharmaceuticals Ltd, developing new medicines from the application of organosilicon chemistry to drug discovery. William created the concept and the company, and took it from concept through three funding rounds to an established company with a strong management team, two technology platforms, a major Pharmaceutical collaboration and exciting product development programmes.

In 2002 William Founded Delta G Ltd., a company exploring a 'systems biology' approach to diseases of energy metabolism, and in 2003 he co-founded Choracle Ltd. with David Melvin and Antranig Basman, to provide software prediction of toxicity for medicine and chemicals development. He also runs a consulting company, Rufus Scientific, providing advice on identifying and exploiting genuinely breakthrough science and technology, and teaches at Cambridge University.

William's expertise has been recognised with Toshiba Year of Invention prize in 1992, election to Human Genome Organisation in 1994, and appointment as a visiting Professor at Imperial College, London in 1999. He is author of numerous papers, patents, and three books.