Completing the Founder Institute is an honor. The program is challenging, and the expectations are demanding.
In this final session, you will celebrate with your peers, friends and family, as well as select Mentors. Some Founders will also pitch to a live audience, and you will officially onboard to all of the post-program resources and assistance the Founder Institute provides.
Announcing our special Guest Speaker - Prof. Ashley George
Prof. Ashley George PhD, FRSC is an old and cynical chemist who has spent much of his career in the global biopharmaceutical industry, from leading Scientific programmes, through VC-backed biotech start-ups, through to founding 3 US incorporated global Not-For-Profits, Including TechForGood.org which is aligned to the 17UN SDGs & one which he is still CFO of the Pistoia Alliance. For 10 years up to 2018, Ashley led GlaxoSmithKline Global Innovation and Consumerisation Centre of Excellence, including digital medical device product launches, global Due-diligences, M&A, global business transformations across Research & Development, Manufacturing Supply chain, Sales and Marketing, for both Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, Consumer health care, Vaccines and internal employees.
In 2018, Ashley was lucky enough to be placed on “gardening leave”. As such, he had the opportunity to reflect on 23 years or so of Pharma & Lifesciences global “transformations” and take a long, harsh, stark, cynical- chemist’s retrospective, of all those career trials and tribulations!
Ashley now has developed a global portfolio career advising organisations from FTSE 100, Fortune 500 to global startusp both for profit and in the not-for-profit 3rd sector including being President of TechForGood.org which is aligned to the UN SDGs. He is also an FCA trained Investment Banker, a Chemistry visiting Professor at University College London, and CEO of Creative Digital Engineers, a company that is staffed by battle-hardened, pragmatic technologists who are looking to “leave a legacy” rather than “build a unicorn”.