Nigel is responsible for Access to Finance at Innovate UK where he heads the organisation’s support for innovative SMEs in gaining access to business support and private sector funding to accelerate the journey from concept to commercialisation.
Nigel has a background in the financial services industry, having spent over 10 years at each of Deutsche Bank and GE Capital. At GE, he established the European ‘Access GE’ programme, advising, coaching and mentoring management teams of businesses owned by VC and private equity firms on operational excellence, acquisition integration, strategy development and leadership.
We have run 5 innovation loans competitions since we launched our pilot in November 2017. Through these, we have learned a great deal about this approach to stimulating and supporting later stage innovation for growth-oriented SMEs. This week we launched …
Almost a year ago, Innovate UK formally announced the launch of the £50m innovation loans pilot programme at Innovate 2017 in Birmingham. Since October 2017, I have been travelling the length and breadth of the UK with colleagues from Innovate …
Last October, I wrote a blog to introduce our innovation loans. We then travelled around the UK to hold briefing events, before formally launching our £50m pilot programme at Innovate 2017. Our first innovation loans competition, for infrastructure systems first …
At Innovate 2017, I was pleased to be able to bring together a panel to discuss the conclusions from Innovate UK’s recent report on scale-ups: Scaling up: the investor perspective, which summarised the responses of interviews with 250 scale up …
It was almost two years ago that the (then) Chancellor first mentioned innovation loans from Innovate UK, as part of the 2015 Spending Review. Since then, we have been working hard to develop a product that we believe will help …
For the first time in my career, I was one of only four men out of forty presenters as I joined an all-day innovation networking event for around 150 invited participants who had applied to our infocus Women in Innovation …
Bringing together the tribes of innovation Each Venturefest event aims to bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and local service providers to promote innovation-based activity in a particular region. Each event has its own unique local flavour and sector specialisms, but …
