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Eight Great Technologies Fund
8GT is a specialist technology venture capital fund focussing on the eight technologies identified by the UK government for support and development, where Britain has real scientific strength and there are global market opportunities.
FUND FOCUS
8GT is a specialist technology venture capital fund focussing on the eight technologies identified by the UK government for support and development, where Britain has real scientific strength and there are global market opportunities.
"Our aim is to be quite simply the leading commercial funder of the major general purpose technologies emerging from the British research base. There is already a significant amount of analysis of the key technologies and substantial public funding going in to them. Now is the time for commercial investors to seize the opportunity for profitable follow on funding. We will be investing for the long term, protecting the interests of researchers and inventors, and establishing close, trusting relations with Britain’s scientific community"
The Rt Hon. The Lord Willetts, Chairman
The Eight Great Technologies:
Robotics, autonomous systems and the Internet of Things
Satellites and space
Regenerative medicine and med tech
Synthetic Biology
Agri-tech
Advanced Materials
Energy Storage and efficiency
IT and Digital technologies
FUND TEAM
Lord Willetts
ChairmanThe Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts, previously UK Minister for Universities and Science
Author of The Eight Great Technologies strategy and created Newton Fund for government investment
Malcolm Glaister
Partner & CEOFounder Farm Street Partners. Financial Career: GE Capital. JPMorgan, AIG Investments, Lloyds Banking Group.
Commercial interests including entertainment, real estate, food production & agriculture
Dr Yuebing Lu
PartnerFormerly CIO of China Jianyin Investment Limited, the domestic investment arm of China Investment Corporation (China National Sovereign Fund)
George Katzaros
PartnerFinancial: Ki Capital (Long Short Equity), Flemings, JPMorgan, Cazenove, ABN Amro, Dillon Read
Commercial: co-founded and raised capital for various private equity companies in the field of emission reductions including WES LLC Van Dyne SuperTurbo Inc
Chris Hancock
Partner & CFOFinancial: Arthur Anderson, Barings Brothers, JPMorgan Cazenove.
Corporate Finance advice across the full range of M&A transactions from public bids and defences to IPOs, trade sales, bond issues and
refinancings
Dr Tina Barsby
CEO of the National Institute of Agricultural BotanyAgri-Food Technology Council
Prof Steve Cowley
President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Recently CEO of UK Atomic Energy Authority, and Head of EURATOM/ CCFE Fusion AssociationProf Mischa Dohler
Head: Wireless Communications, Kings College, LondonCo-Founder of smart city pioneer Worldsensing
Andy Green
Chairman IG Group plc, Digital Catapult, DockOn AG. NED – ARM Holdings Plc. Avanti Communications plc, CBI, The Tech Partnership. Advisor- npGroup, Deloitte TMT practice, Tagos. President UK Space and co-chair Space Leadership Council.Alan Greenberg
Apple: ItunesU, Higher; Education Group in Europe and Asia, Apple’s Beyond Campus’ initiatives.Prof Sir Colin Humphreys
Professor of Materials Science, Cambridge University, and of Experimental Physics, Royal InstitutionDirector of Rolls Royce Technology Centre and Cambridge Gallium Nitride Centre
Prof Johan Hyllner
Chief Scientific Officer of the Cell Therapy CatapultPreviously Chief Scientific Officer at the French Cellectis SA, Cellartis AB, Vitrolife AB and Scandinavian QC Laboratories AB
Prof Douglas Kell
Professor of Bioanalytical Science, University of ManchesterFormer CEO of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Founding Aber Instruments (Queen’s Award for Export 1998)
Prof Richard Kitney
Professor of Biomedical Systems Engineering, Imperial College, LondonCentre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation CSynBi
Prof David Lane
Founder of Edinburgh Centre for RoboticsFounder/CEO Seebyte Inc 2001 to 2010 – exit to BlueFin Robotics, Mass
Richard Wardle
Founder of various hi-tech companies including Vantix Diagnostics, NRM, QROS and significant commercial including Aqua-Salve, Trumac, Aspida, Monitor, Metropolitan PublishingCONTACT
8GT
Postal Contact:
Malcolm Glaister, CEO
8GT Partners Ltd
8 St James's Square,
London SW1Y 4JU,
United Kingdom
Email:
Tel: +44 (0)20 3858 0149
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