Programme Committee
Jeff Skinner
Jeff Skinner is the Executive of the Foundation for Entrepreneurial Management at London Business School.
He joined UCL in 1990 as the first member of UCL Ventures, itself one of the first university technology transfer units in the UK to pro-actively encourage and nurture spin-out companies. Since then he has been actively involved in over 30 such spin-outs, many of them venture-capital backed. He co-founded, the Centre for Scientific Enterprise (CSEL) and London Technology Network (LTN) - both joint ventures with the London Business School. He also created the University's Biomedical Seed Fund and UCL Consultants Ltd and was a one of the core team that conceived the university-industry 'Lambert Agreements'. He was Director of UCL Business until 2006 when he started another new unit focusing on developing research alliances with major R&D intensive corporates.
He is ex-Chairman of UNICO, the Technology Transfer Association in the UK and immediate Past President of ASTP, the European Technology Transfer Association.
Prior to joining UCL he was Marketing Manager with Hoechst Celanese Corporation in the US, and before that spent three years at GEC Hirst Research Centre, leading research in optical switches for telecommunications applications. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCL and an MBA from London Business School.
