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Prof. Alan Barrell

Alan has 30 years experience in senior executive positions in technology based industries and has become one of Cambridge's most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. Alan is now Entrepreneur in Residence at Cambridge University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and Visiting Professor of Enterprise at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies.

Alan has tremedous depth of experience in Biotech and Entrepreurship and a history that includes:

UK Chief Executive Baxter Healthcare for six years and a further six years with Domino, later joining Willett International Group, an industrial electronics company, as CEO.

Alan is a member of the Cambridge Angels, Sophia Business Angels and was instrumental in launching the Cambridge Gateway Fund, a 70 millions Euros fund, to support early stage technology businesses.

He is entrepreneur in Residence, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, guest Professor at Xiamen University, Visiting Professor at Shanghai College of Science and Technology and at the Fujian International School of Economics and Business, China.

Additionally, Alan holds a further position as Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex, International Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge.

Previously Chairman of Health Enterprise East Ltd seeking to exploit innovative inventions in the National Health Service, in October 2009 the Regional Strategic Health Authority for the East of England appointed Alan Chairman of the NHS Innovation Council and in November he accepted an invitation to act as Chairman of the External Advisory Board of NACUE – the National Consortium of University Enterprise Associations