Engaging over 2,000 students every year, alongside a huge number of postdoctoral students and early career researchers, our Entrepreneurship services team manage a hive of activity, programmes and competitions all year round. 

The following teams can be found in the Enterprise Lab located in Imperial College London Level 0, Sherfield Building South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ

Enterprise Lab

  • Ben Mumby-Croft

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    Ben Mumby-Croft Director of Entrepreneurship

    What can I help with?

    • Developing and delivering experiential venture-building programmes, mentoring and coaching that equip students, researchers and founders with the skills to become effective innovators.

    • Leading and shaping Imperial’s entrepreneurship ecosystem — including the Enterprise Lab, MTSC, MedTech Accelerator and Incubation Services — to support ideas from early exploration through to commercialisation

  • Sarah Ranchev-Hale

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    Sarah Ranchev-Hale Head of Enterprise Lab

    What can I help with?

    • Partnerships and sponsorship 
    • Collaborate on our programmes and events 
    • New programme development
  • Nikki Kelly

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    Nikki Kelly Operations Manager

    What can I help with?

    • All things operations (administration, financial matters, HR, recruitment and space management)  
    • Data reporting  
    • Governance queries
  • Katie Colledge

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    Katie Colledge Operations and Data Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Enterprise Lab data and reporting
    • Questions about Idea Surgeries, accessing Enterprise Lab services and community events
    • Queries regarding ICT, finance, Enterprise Lab bookings and general admin
  • Fredrika Odelstierna

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    Fredrika Odelstierna Community and Operations Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Questions about events, Student Entrepreneurship Forum, Community Collider, Big Summer Social, and Venture Crawl.  
    • General admin queries, ICT, financial support, and office administration, opening hours  
    • Space management, Enterprise Lab bookings and Idea Surgeries
  • Claudia Cagna

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    Claudia Cagna Community Support Receptionist

    What can I help with?

    • General admin queries and office administration including,  ICT, Equipment queries, Car parking and Financial support   
    • Event organisation including,  Community Collider,  Big Summer Social and Venture Crawl  
    • Space and facilities management 
    • Idea Surgeries  
  • Nadia Ahrazem

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    Nadia Ahrazem Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • WE Innovate
    • Women-led start-ups
    • ED&I initiatives
    • Idea surgeries
  • Laura Barclay

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    Laura Barclay Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • WE Innovate
    • Women-led start-ups
  • Ingeborg Francisca Maria Catharina Albert

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    Ingeborg Francisca Maria Catharina Albert Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager International Programmes

    What can I help with?

    • The Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
    • Idea surgeries

    • Early stage startup support- from idea to scalable business model

  • Georgie Phillipson

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    Georgie Phillipson Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • Venture Catalyst Challenge  
    • ED&I initiatives  
    • Partnerships and sponsorships  
  • Prajul Vishnu

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    Prajul Vishnu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • Venture Catalyst Challenge  
    • Idea Surgeries  
    • Support and Services Offered by Enterprise Lab  
  • Victoria Nicholl

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    Victoria Nicholl Head of Incubation Services

    What can I help with?

    • Health Technologies Capability Connector (HTCC)
    • Climate Scaling Collaborative
    • How to navigate the Imperial ecosystem
    • How Incubation Services can help/support your startup (founders)  
    • How to collaborate with Incubation Services (colleagues who are helping founders)
  • Amy McDonnell

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    Amy McDonnell Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager

    What can I help with?

    • Engaging with E-Labs founder coaching & mentoring services - Imperial Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) and Experts-in-Residence (XiR)
    • Identifying mentors and experts within the E-Lab network for advice/ad-hoc activities
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Olivia Brown

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    Olivia Brown Incubation Services Manager (Tech)

    What can I help with?

    • Advice on expert business coaching and mentoring support for your startup or spinout
    • Imperial Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS)
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you
  • Sara Roberts

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    Sara Roberts Incubation Services Manager, Biosciences

    What can I help with?

    • Green Tech Legal Collaborative (GTLC) 
    • Providing more information on the Peer-Recommended Suppliers List and Entrepreneurship Resources 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Jessie Gao

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    Jessie Gao Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator

    What can I help with?

    • How to gain access to Experts-in-Residence (XiR)
    • How to become part of our XiR Community 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • Lauren Keating

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    Lauren Keating Partnerships Manager

    What can I help with?

    • How the Health Technologies Capability Connector (HTCC) can support IP commercialisation and startups
    • How organisations can partner with HTCC 
    • How Incubation Services can help/support you 
  • James Groves

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    James Groves Head of Investment Services

    What I can help with:

    • Advice on raising investment for your spinout or startup
    • Training in entrepreneurial finance and venture capital investment
    • How to get your company ‘investor ready’
    • Promoting your company to investors
    • The Imperial Investor Network
  • Andrew Loh

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    Andrew Loh Investor and Client Relations Lead

    What can I help with?

    • Learning more about the EarthScale programme 
    • The Imperial Investor Network
    • Advice on raising investment for your spinout or startup
  • Hiten Thakrar

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    Hiten Thakrar Programme Manager, MedTech SuperConnector

    Biography

    • MedTech SuperConnector
    • AI SuperConector
    • International programme collaboration
  • Dr Candice Middleton

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    Dr Candice Middleton Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager - MTSC

    What can I help with?

    • Equipping researchers with an entrepreneurial mindset
    • MedTech and AI accelerator queries
    • Strategic partnerships and collaborations in AI and MedTech
  • Jennifer Mills

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    Jennifer Mills Entrepreneurship Communications and Marketing Manager

    What I can help with:

    Marketing and Comms for -

    • Imperial Enterprise Lab
    • MTSC, VCC, WE Innovate
    • IVMS
    • Imperial Entrepreneurs Pledge
    • Imperial Investor Network
  • Liliana Shymanska

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    Liliana Shymanska Marketing and Communications Coordinator

    What I can help with:

    • Learning more about the EarthScale programme 
    • Marketing and Communications for EarthScale, and the Imperial Enterprise Lab

Medtech One Accelerator

Imperial MedTech One accelerates medical technology innovation by providing expertise, resources, and support for developing and commercializing healthcare solutions.

Medtech One Accelerator

  • Giovanni Milandri

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    Giovanni Milandri QARA Manager - MedTech | Bioengineering

  • Immanuel Sebastine

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    Immanuel Sebastine Translation Project Manager - MedTech Bioengineering

  • Florence Ching Ying Leong

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    Florence Ching Ying Leong QARA Manager