Innovate UK interim Executive Chair.
Ian has extensive entrepreneurial and business experience in the healthcare sector.
Prior to Innovate UK, Ian was CEO of Arquer Diagnostics, which focuses on bladder and prostate cancer diagnosis.
Before this, Ian spent 15 years in a variety of executive management roles within the health and life science sector.
As I reflect on my tenure at Innovate UK, I am exceptionally proud to have led the organisation through many complex challenges – from organisational transformations to UKRI integration to preparing for the myriad eventualities of Brexit. However, as any business leader will now attest, nothing could have prepared me for the challenges (and opportunities) of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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