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Advisory Board and Steering Group

Meet the experts supporting Murray Edwards Enterprising Women

Advisory Board

 

Hannah Bernard OBE

Co-Chair of the Invest in Women Taskforce. Head of Business Banking, Barclays UK

 

Dorothy Byrne

President, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

 

Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS HonFInstP HonFRSC

Professor Emerita of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge. Former Master, Churchill College, Cambridge

 

Pam Garside

Chair of Cambridge Angels; Co-Chair of Cambridge Health Network; Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

 

Shaun Grady

Senior Vice President, Business Development Operations at AstraZeneca

 

Sarah Golding

Partner | T&P𝑚, and Past President of the IPA 2017-2019

 

Hanadi Jabado DL

Managing Partner Sana Capital; Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire; President's Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; Non Exec @ IUK-UKRI Credit Committee

 

Abigail Malortie

Partner, C Hoare & Co Private Bank

 

Rafael Noya

Global Head of Global Debt Financing, Santander

 

Scott O'Brien

Chief Investment Officer, Innovate UK and Director Innovate UK Loans Limited

 

Lopa Patel MBE

Digital CEO, Non-Executive Chair, NED & Trustee

 

Laurel Powers-Freeling (Chair of Advisory Board)

Chairman at Uber UK; Chair at Bank of England Cost Benefit Analysis Panel; Massachusetts Institution of Technology

 

Simon Thorpe

Cambridge Angels, Delta2020, Albion KAY VCT, Salica Investments, Manchester University Innovation Factory, Manchester Angels, Angel Academe, Cambridge Judge Business School, Inngot, UB.io

Steering Group

 

Dr Caroline Austin

Vice President, Head of Transactions, Business Development, AstraZeneca

 

Dorothy Byrne

President, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

 

Dr Loubna Bouarfa

AI innovator; Founder OKRA.ai; Forbes 50 Top Women In Tech; MIT Innovator Under 35; EU AI High-Level Expert Group 2018; SciTech CEO of Year 2019; European Young Leader (EYL 40) 2022

 

Lisa Brent

EA to the President, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and Special Projects Administrator

 

Rob Hopwood

Fellow and Bursar at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

 

Stelios Kavadias

Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation and Growth at Cambridge Judge Business School, Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre

 

Hanadi Jabado DL

Managing Partner Sana Capital; Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire; President's Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge; Non Exec @ IUK-UKRI Credit Committee

 

Jay Longworth

Director of Development and Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Cambridge ExecMBA candidate

 

Paula Rogers-Brown

Head of Entrepreneurship Programmes at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Business Strategist, Non Exec Director at Cambridge Wireless, specialist in Innovation Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship, Community Builder

 

Dr Kristin-Anne Rutter

Executive Director, Cambridge University Health Partners

 

Dr Carina Tyrrell

British-Swiss investor and entrepreneur. Cambridge University Public Health Physician, Fellow and Board Member. Ex Goldman Sachs Analyst and venture capitalist to the President of Samsung.

 

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