Engaging over 2,000 students every year, alongside a huge number of postdoctoral students and early career researchers, our Entrepreneurship services team manage a hive of activity, programmes and competitions all year round. 

The following teams can be found in the Enterprise Lab located in

Enterprise Lab

  • Ben Mumby-Croft

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    Ben Mumby-Croft Director of Entrepreneurship

    What can I help with?

    • Developing and delivering experiential venture-building programmes, mentoring and coaching that equip students, researchers and founders with the skills to become effective innovators.

    • Leading and shaping 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s entrepreneurship ecosystem — including the Enterprise Lab, MTSC, MedTech Accelerator and Incubation Services — to support ideas from early exploration through to commercialisation

  • Daisy Gibson

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    Daisy Gibson Administration Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • PA support to Ben Mumby-Croft, Director of Entrepreneurship  
    • Administrative support to E-Lab senior managers
    • General Administrative and operational support for Elab
    • HR and Recruitment  
    • Casual and Contingent workers set up  
    • Finance, ICT queries and advice  
  • Sarah Ranchev-Hale

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    Sarah Ranchev-Hale Head of Enterprise Lab

    What can I help with?

    • Partnerships and sponsorship 
    • Collaborate on our programmes and events 
    • New programme development
  • Nikki Kelly

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    Nikki Kelly Operations Manager

    What can I help with?

    • All things operations (administration, financial matters, HR, recruitment and space management)  
    • Data reporting  
    • Governance queries
  • Katie Colledge

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    Katie Colledge Operations and Data Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Enterprise Lab data and reporting
    • Questions about Idea Surgeries, accessing Enterprise Lab services and community events
    • Queries regarding ICT, finance, Enterprise Lab bookings and general admin
  • Fredrika Odelstierna

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    Fredrika Odelstierna Community and Operations Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Questions about events, Student Entrepreneurship Forum, Community Collider, Big Summer Social, and Venture Crawl.  
    • General admin queries, ICT, financial support, and office administration, opening hours  
    • Space management, Enterprise Lab bookings and Idea Surgeries
  • Claudia Cagna

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    Claudia Cagna Community Support Receptionist

    What can I help with?

    • General admin queries and office administration including,  ICT, Equipment queries, Car parking and Financial support   
    • Event organisation including,  Community Collider,  Big Summer Social and Venture Crawl  
    • Space and facilities management 
    • Idea Surgeries  
  • Nadia Ahrazem

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    Nadia Ahrazem Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • WE Innovate
    • Women-led start-ups
    • ED&I initiatives
    • Idea surgeries
  • Laura Barclay

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    Laura Barclay Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • WE Innovate
    • Women-led start-ups
  • Ingeborg Francisca Maria Catharina Albert

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    Ingeborg Francisca Maria Catharina Albert Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager International Programmes

    What can I help with?

    • The Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
    • Idea surgeries

    • Early stage startup support- from idea to scalable business model

  • Georgie Phillipson

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    Georgie Phillipson Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • Venture Catalyst Challenge  
    • ED&I initiatives  
    • Partnerships and sponsorships  
  • Prajul Vishnu

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    Prajul Vishnu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Venture Catalyst Challenge  
    • Idea Surgeries  
    • Support and Services Offered by Enterprise Lab  
  • Victoria Nicholl

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    Victoria Nicholl Head of Incubation Services

    What can I help with?

    • Health Technologies Capability Connector (HTCC)
    • Climate Scaling Collaborative
    • How to navigate the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø ecosystem
    • How Incubation Services can help/support your startup (founders)  
    • How to collaborate with Incubation Services (colleagues who are helping founders)
  • Amy McDonnell

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    Amy McDonnell Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • Engaging with E-Labs founder coaching & mentoring services - 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) and Experts-in-Residence (XiR)
    • Identifying mentors and experts within the E-Lab network for advice/ad-hoc activities
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Olivia Brown

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    Olivia Brown Incubation Services Manager (Tech)

    What can I help with?

    • Advice on expert business coaching and mentoring support for your startup or spinout
    • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS)
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you
  • Sara Roberts

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    Sara Roberts Incubation Services Manager, Biosciences

    What can I help with?

    • Green Tech Legal Collaborative (GTLC) 
    • Providing more information on the Peer-Recommended Suppliers List and Entrepreneurship Resources 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Jessie Gao

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    Jessie Gao Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • How to gain access to Experts-in-Residence (XiR)
    • How to become part of our XiR Community 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Lauren Keating

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    Lauren Keating Partnerships Manager

    What can I help with?

    • How the Health Technologies Capability Connector (HTCC) can support IP commercialisation and startups
    • How organisations can partner with HTCC 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • James Groves

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    James Groves Head of Investment Services

    What I can help with:

    • Advice on raising investment for your spinout or startup
    • Training in entrepreneurial finance and venture capital investment
    • How to get your company ‘investor ready’
    • Promoting your company to investors
    • The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Investor Network
  • Andrew Loh

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    Andrew Loh Investor and Client Relations Lead

    What can I help with?

    • Learning more about the EarthScale programme 
    • The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Investor Network
    • Advice on raising investment for your spinout or startup
  • Hiten Thakrar

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    Hiten Thakrar Programme Manager, MedTech SuperConnector

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    • MedTech SuperConnector
    • AI SuperConector
    • International programme collaboration
  • Dr Candice Middleton

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    Dr Candice Middleton Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager - MTSC

    What can I help with?

    • Equipping researchers with an entrepreneurial mindset
    • MedTech and AI accelerator queries
    • Strategic partnerships and collaborations in AI and MedTech
  • Jennifer Mills

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    Jennifer Mills Entrepreneurship Communications and Marketing Manager

    What I can help with:

    Marketing and Comms for -

    • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Enterprise Lab
    • MTSC, VCC, WE Innovate
    • IVMS
    • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Entrepreneurs Pledge
    • 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Investor Network
  • Liliana Shymanska

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    Liliana Shymanska Marketing and Communications Coordinator

    What I can help with:

    • Learning more about the EarthScale programme 
    • Marketing and Communications for EarthScale, and the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Enterprise Lab

Medtech One Accelerator

51³Ô¹ÏÍø MedTech One accelerates medical technology innovation by providing expertise, resources, and support for developing and commercializing healthcare solutions.

Medtech One Accelerator

  • Giovanni Milandri

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    Giovanni Milandri QARA Manager - MedTech | Bioengineering

  • Immanuel Sebastine

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    Immanuel Sebastine Translation Project Manager - MedTech Bioengineering

  • Florence Ching Ying Leong

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    Florence Ching Ying Leong QARA Manager