The Enterprise Operations team is pivotal in improving core support for the Enterprise Division, including business analytics and administration.
Enterprise Operations consists of the following teams:
Leadership and executive support
This team in the Enterprise Division provides essential strategic direction, administrative support, ensuring smooth operations and efficient service delivery across teams.
Administration
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Alistair McDermott
What can I help with?
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Oversees strategic direction and governance of operations
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Leads cross-functional initiatives
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Focuses on long-term capability building and policy development
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Vicky Kilcoyne
What can I help with?
- Provide strategic and operational leadership
- Lead and develop high-performing teams
- Oversee major strategic initiatives and commercial ventures
- Drive operational excellence and service quality
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Ivona Ryan
What can I help with?
- Administration team and admin projects/initiatives’ delivery
- General administration, best practice & optimisation
- All things Lexonis (competency-based Talent Management System)
- Casual and contingent workers set up
- HR, TeamSeer, finance, ICT queries and advice
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Iwona Przychodzen
What can I help with?
- PA support to Alex Elkins, Co-Director Enterprise (Partnerships) and Julia Zanghieri, Director of Imperial Business Partners
- HR, TeamSeer Administrator and Telecoms Rep
- Casual and contingent workers set up
- Finance, ICT queries and advice
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Alison Dexter
What can I help with?
- PA support to Alistair McDermott, Research & Enterprise Operations Officer, support to Emma Toumi, Associate Director of Intellectual Property Strategy, and Vicky Kilcoyne, Associate Director (Commercial Development)
- Admin support to EO team
- H&S across Enterprise
- ICT and Telecom rep, TeamSeer Administrator
- Finance, ICT queries and advice
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Daisy Gibson
What can I help with?
- PA support to Ben Mumby-Croft, Director of Entrepreneurship
- General admin support for Partnerships and Commercialisation teams
- HR and Telecoms Rep
- Casual and Contingent workers set up
- Finance, ICT queries and advice
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Dina Daley
What can I help with?
- PA support to Manish Patel, Associate Director - NHS Technology Transfer and Laura Guida, Associate Director - Commercialisation Support
- Admin support to RIMO, Legal, NHS TT, Spinouts and Commercialisation Support teams
- HR and TeamSeer, finance queries, Egencia travel, telecom orders
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Nicola Duckham
What can I help with?
- EA support to Marika Reay, Cross Faculty Director (Commercialisation) and Jo Clark Cross Faculty Director (Partnerships)
- Cross-faculty and external stakeholders general admin support
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Eunice Anderson
What can I help with?
- On maternity leave
- Please contact Daisy Gibson, d.gibson@imperial.ac.uk
Major projects
Commercial development
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Anshu Bansal
Intellectual Property Strategy
The Imperial Intellectual Property Strategy team advises on managing, protecting, and optimizing intellectual property to maximize impact and commercial opportunities.
Intellectual Property Strategy
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Dr Emma Toumi
What can I help with?
- Specialist knowledge in IP
- NSI Act and Export Controls for contracts
- Guidance on IP Policy
- Clearance of Student IP
- Inventor assignments of pre-loved IP
- Knowledge Exchange Concordat
- Secondary commercial use of data
- IP training
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Catherine Kibirige
What can I help with?
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Compliance with UK Government Research Security Regulations
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Export Control Licensing
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National Security Investment Notifications
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Imperial Reward to Inventors Scheme
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Distribution of Commercialisation Revenue to Researchers
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Transfer of Non-Commercialised IP to Inventors Pursuing Independent Commercialisation
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Due diligence on Student IP Disclosures
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IP Clearance Letters
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Marketing Operations
The Marketing Operations team drives operational excellence through marketing technology, project management, and approaches. The team work closely with marketing and communications colleagues across Enterprise and Imperial to foster collaboration and streamline processes.
Marketing Operations
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Jo Johnson
What can I help with?
- Marketing operations team and approaches for Enterprise
- Marketing technology platforms
- How to manage your audience data, including targeting and lead management
- Marketing insights and engagement data
- Developing and managing Enterprise websites
- Enterprise Marketing and Communications working group
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Dr David Silverman
What can I help with?
- Publicising your work
- Ideas for new content
- Copywriting and copy-editing (speeches and web pages)
- Commissioning freelance content (writers, designers, photographers and illustrators)
- Guidance on communicating effectively
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Owen Cheshire
What can I help with?
- CRM support
- Website support
- Marketing technology stack
- Audience engagement and experience
- Data-driven marketing
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Cheryl Naidu
What can I help with?
- Project management approaches
- Project management platform support
- Major project planning, communication and delivery, including events
- Stakeholder liaison and collaboration
Operational Excellence
The Operational Excellence team captures and disseminates key insights for data-driven decision-making based on robust data, optimised and maximised systems, processes and operations across the Enterprise.
Operational Excellence
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Amardeep Singh Gainda
What can I help with?
- Improve processes – Streamline workflows and remove inefficiencies.
- Lead transformation – Deliver change projects to modernise ways of working.
- Provide insights – Use data and analytics to support smarter decisions.
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Dr Mary Sarcina
What I can help with?
- Lead business analytics – Build a best-practice team to support College strategic objectives.
- Shape data strategy – Align business goals with measurable KPIs and performance scorecards.
- Deliver reporting – Produce statutory, annual, and internal reports with accuracy and clarity.
- Advance data culture – Promote maturity by embedding data as a core organisational asset.
- Visualise insights – Create dashboards and impactful data visualisations.
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Priyanka Tanwar
What I can help with?
- Manage data – Collate, validate, and secure robust datasets including patents and spinouts.
- Deliver reporting – Prepare internal/external reports and respond to FOI requests.
- Visualise activity – Design dashboards to showcase Enterprise performance.
- Maintain portfolios – Oversee Imperial’s licences, spinouts, and patent portfolio.
- Analyse trends – Conduct benchmarking to identify opportunities for improvement
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Simon Herriott
What can I help with?
- Own and optimise systems – Manage Salesforce, Power Apps, DocuSign and digital platforms.
- Drive process excellence – Lead process mapping, engineering, and automation initiatives.
- Enable transformation – Support digital adoption and change management across the division.
- Safeguard compliance – Act as GDPR lead ensuring systems meet regulatory requirements.
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Adam Bury
What can I help with?
- Administer SharePoint – Oversee site collection access and permissions.
- Maintain SOPs – Publish and manage new and updated Enterprise procedures.
- Improve workflows – Support development of efficient work process improvements.