Programme Speakers
Brian Graves
Brian Graves is Director of Commercialisation Services, Imperial Innovations.
Brian leads a team of commercialisation professionals which manages the commercialisation of IP from outside of Imperial College and builds market-led business opportunities in conjunction with existing businesses and a wide variety of IP sources.
After joining Imperial Innovations in 2001, Brian has been involved in the formation of over 20 early stage companies, many more licence deals and winning externally funded contracts from various corporate and publically funded research intensive organisations.
Brian is widely experienced in business development and marketing in the engineering industry, having previously worked for John Crane Ltd, part Smiths Group plc, most recently in business strategy and analysis. Before that he was based in Chicago USA responsible for business analysis and competitive intelligence. The earlier part of his career, based in the UK, focussed on new product development, marketing communications and pricing strategy for European and international markets. The company's markets spanned a wide range of industries from automotive, chemicals and oil to pulp, paper and water in addition to original equipment manufacturers, from compressors to pumps.
Brian is a graduate of Durham University with a BSc in Engineering Science and Management.
