Experience

CUVCPE - Cambridge University Venture Capital and Private Equity Society

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair

  • Jul 2021 - 2 years 6 months

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• President

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2021

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom - Manage team of 30+ undergraduates, postgraduates and MBAs - Host guest speakers from VC and PE firms, eg. a16z, F-Prime Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Tanto Capital Partners - Create and maintain partnerships with funds (Octopus, Hummingbird, Investiere, Start Codon + more) to offer internship-like opportunities for students - Implement networking/mentoring initiatives for students to connect to others within the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cambridge UK, and Boston, USA - Design and… Show more - Manage team of 30+ undergraduates, postgraduates and MBAs - Host guest speakers from VC and PE firms, eg. a16z, F-Prime Capital, Mosaic Ventures, Tanto Capital Partners - Create and maintain partnerships with funds (Octopus, Hummingbird, Investiere, Start Codon + more) to offer internship-like opportunities for students - Implement networking/mentoring initiatives for students to connect to others within the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Cambridge UK, and Boston, USA - Design and implement marketing and recruitment strategy using a mix of marketing channels

• VC Biotech Corporate Liaison

  • Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

  Cambridge, United Kingdom - Co-organiser of the "Breaking into Investing" speaker and case-study series in the biotechnology and technology sector - Supporting networking opportunities to Cambridge University students



University of Cambridge

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Candidate in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine

  • Oct 2018 - 5 years 3 months

  Cambridge, United Kingdom - Assessing the impact of past climate on human adaptation using human genomic data - Modelling natural selection by simulating global human population expansion - Statistical analysis of 10 populations from around the world Activities and Societies - President of Venture Capital and Private Equity Society - Judge Business School EnterpriseTECH - Sustainable development researcher for C40 cities with Global Health think tank, Polygeia - EMBO Population Genomics… Show more - Assessing the impact of past climate on human adaptation using human genomic data - Modelling natural selection by simulating global human population expansion - Statistical analysis of 10 populations from around the world Activities and Societies - President of Venture Capital and Private Equity Society - Judge Business School EnterpriseTECH - Sustainable development researcher for C40 cities with Global Health think tank, Polygeia - EMBO Population Genomics Practical Course - i-Teams technology consultant - Venture Creation Weekends: Food Innovation, Biotech & Healthcare, Genomics - Supervisor for final year Computer Science module, Bioinformatics

• MRes in Mathematical Genomics and Medicine

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2018

  Cambridge, United Kingdom Clinical Informatics, Department of Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital - Clinical research to understand the aetiology of hospital infectious intestinal disease - Analysed electronic health records with data generated by new diagnostic technology



Future VC

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Remote Participant

  • Sep 2021 - Apr 2022



Systemiq Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• ClimateTech Investor

  • May 2021 - Jan 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom



PwC UK

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• PwC Raise Ventures | Student Growth Programme Participant

  • Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom



Cambridge Judge Business School

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• EnterpriseTECH PhD

  • Feb 2021 - May 2021

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom - Entrepreneurship program including intensive lecture series, commercial feasibility report of emerging technology and video informercial



Start Codon

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Start Codon Venture Promoter Program - Project Lead

  • Jun 2020 - Apr 2021

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom - Coordinate 5 groups of students to conduct due diligence on healthcare start ups - Liaise with CEO and Head of Due Diligence at Start Codon

• Start Codon Venture Promoter - Team Lead

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2020

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom - Perform due diligence of early-stage healthcare companies and provide investment recommendations to executives for a Cambridge-based accelerator - Manage groups of students to provide research for ~1 company per week



Polygeia

• United Kingdom
• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sustainable Development Researcher for Global Health Think Tank

  • Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom - Presented findings on synergies between climate change mitigation policy and increasing biodiversity in Polygeia 2019 Global Health conference. - Work commissioned by C40 cities



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Virtual Academy Training Programme

  • May 2019 - Jul 2019

  London, England, United Kingdom - 3 month virtual training programme for postgraduate students - McKinsey's online skills workshops and Harvard Online Learning modules - Awarded 2nd place out of 14 teams in case competition



Labstep

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• i-Teams Consultant

  • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018

  Cambridge, United Kingdom - Developed strategy for commercialisation of Labstep, a software tool for scientists



Kinapse

• United Kingdom
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Advisory Intern

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

  London, United Kingdom - Supported projects within KPI development, Medical Affairs and Market Access



Blue Matter

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Advisory Intern

  • May 2017 - Jun 2017

  London, United Kingdom - Conducted in-depth research of oncology development landscape



Wellcome Sanger Institute

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  Hinxton, Cambridge - Gained insights into population differentiation, movement and admixture from ancient South African genomes



Wellcome Sanger Institute

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sandwich Student

  • Oct 2012 - Aug 2013

  Hinxton, England, United Kingdom - Implemented the imputation algorithm, BEAGLE 2.1, a stochastic expectation maximization algorithm to infer missing/low quality data and haplotype phase



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Discover Insight Programme

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2013

  Fanham Hall Hotel - 1 of 45 selected out of 1,500 applicants - Attended Insight programme into management consultancy including an in-depth case study



British Army

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Officer Cadet

  • Sep 2010 - Apr 2013

  Cambridge, United Kingdom - Completed Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Military Leadership Development Programme Level 1 and 2 - Developed practical leadership and teamwork from adventure training and military exercises. - Improved decision making, planning, management, teamwork, self awareness, problem solving, teaching techniques and physical fitness - Acquired skills and knowledge in management, presentation, first aid, navigation, radio procedure and weapon handling



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

  Genome Analysis Group Summer School in Computational Biology - Built gene co-expression network using RNA-seq data from Arabidopsis thaliana and R package WGCNA. - Found modules of genes with similar co-expression profiles - Used gene ontology information to find biologically significant modules



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Nuffield Science Bursary

  • Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

  Genome Analysis and Bioinformatics Group - Awarded Gold CREST Award for completed report - Implemented and tested exact and approximate string matching algorithms in Python - Implemented a basic local and global alignment algorithm