Duncan McCunn

03rd March 2025

Duncan has spent the majority of his career in Banking and Finance. Working for NatWest, IBM and Barclays he has specialised in Corporate Banking, directly and leading teams providing Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Working Capital and Payment Solutions to SMEs and Global Corporates. As a founder Director of Cambridge...

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Alex Plant

03rd March 2025

Alex became Regulation Director at Anglian Water in 2017, having spent two years leading on regulatory policy and market reform. Previously he worked as Director of Regulation at Royal Mail, Executive Director for Economy, Transport & Environment at Cambridgeshire County Council, and Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Horizons, driving forward...

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Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET

03rd March 2025

David Cleevely is an entrepreneur who has founded a series of companies including Abcam, Analysys and the award-winning restaurant Bocca di Lupo. He is Chairman of Chemify (a Glasgow University spin out founded with Professor Lee Cronin), Focal Point Positioning, and the Cambridge Science Centre. He was Chairman of...

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Matthew Bullock

03rd March 2025

Matthew Bullock is a founder and Honorary Vice-Chair of Cambridge Ahead. He was Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, from 2014-19, as well as Chairman of the Transforming Pathology Partnership. For the last 12 years, Matthew has also been the chairman of International House Trust Ltd. Matthew was most...

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Charles Cotton

03rd March 2025

Charles Cotton is an Honorary Vice Chairman of Cambridge Ahead and is Founder and Chairman of Cambridge Phenomenon International Ltd and co-author of The CambridgePhenomenon 50 Years of Innovation and Enterprise. He is a Director of Cambridge Enterprise (a subsidiary of the University of Cambridge) and a member of its...

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Dr Hermann Hauser KBE

03rd March 2025

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE FRS FREng FInstP is an Honorary Vice Chairman of Cambridge Ahead. A serial Entrepreneur and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Dr Hauser has wide experience in developing and financing companies in the information technology sector. He co-founded a number of high-tech companies including Acorn Computers which...

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Jeremy Newsum

03rd March 2025

Jeremy Newsum DL is an Honorary Vice Chairman of Cambridge Ahead and was inaugural Chairman for the first six months of our existence. He was Executive Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, until he stepped down from this role at the end of 2016. He is also a director of...

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Rory Landman

03rd March 2025

Rory has 35 years of wide-ranging investment experience. From 2000 to 2006, he launched and managed emerging markets equity funds of c.$3 billion at Thames River Capital and prior to that was a Senior Director and Head of Global Emerging Equities at Baring Asset Management. From 2006 to early...

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Professor Dame Carol Black

03rd March 2025

Professor Dame Carol Black is currently Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers. She chairs NHS England/Improvement’s Advisory Board on Employee Health and Wellbeing, and is Adviser to NHSI and PHE on...

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Dr Andy Williams

03rd March 2025

After 30 years within the biopharmaceutical industry, Andy recently established his own consultancy business advising clients such as AstraZeneca and CBC Ltd in the areas of strategy, policy development and engagement. In his previous role at AstraZeneca, Andy oversaw the move and integration of the organization into the Cambridge...

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