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Kristin Blanchfield

Kristin Blanchfield joined Imperial as the Vice President of Advancement in January 2025. Before Imperial, she spent over a decade at Johns Hopkins University, most recently as Senior Associate Vice President for Philanthropic ...

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Lucy Cohen

Lucy Cohen is a businesswoman from Cardiff and the President of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) for 2025. After starting her career through an AAT apprenticeship, she founded Mazuma at 23, launching the UK’s first ...

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Professor Maggie Dallman, OBE

Maggie Dallman is Associate Provost (Societal Engagement), Founding Academic Director of the Centre for Societal Engagement at Imperial and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London. Having joined Imperial in 1994 as a ...

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Alexsis de Raadt St James

Chair of the WE Innovate National Board

Alexsis is an investment professional and the founder and managing partner of Merian Ventures, a US-UK venture capital firm. She is an investor, board member, and innovation executive with experience in technology, venture capital, ...

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Priya Guha, MBE

Priya works across technology, innovation and investment in the UK and globally. She is a Non-Executive Director at Reach PLC, UK Research & Innovation & Herald Investment Trust, Senior Independent Director at Digital Catapult ...

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Professor Mark Logan OBE, FRSE

Mark Logan is the former Chief Entrepreneurial Advisor to the Scottish Government, and authored Scotland’s national tech start-up strategy. He is currently Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow, a ...

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Dame Alison Rose

Alison is Senior Partner to Charterhouse Private Equity, Chair of Mishcon de Reya, and a Trustee of Help for Heroes. She served as Chief Executive at the NatWest Group until 2023. Prior to this she was Deputy CEO of NatWest Group and ...

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Advisory Board

At the heart of WE Innovate’s bold national expansion is a powerhouse Advisory Board, comprising an exceptional group of leaders whose expertise spans venture capital, public policy, entrepreneurship, academia, and innovation.

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Participating universities

The national programme currently brings together a consortium of six universities - Imperial College London, Queen’s University Belfast, Swansea University, the University of Glasgow, Durham University, and Loughborough University.

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