Chairman's message
Dr Luke Hakes reviews
his second year as
UMI
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Chairman
A triple graduate of The University of
Manchester in biochemistry with biotechnology;
bioinformatics; and computational genetics,
Luke completed a PhD in 2006. He is currently
Investment Director at venture capital firm,
Octopus Ventures, based in the City of London.
Over the last nine years Luke has advised and
been a board member of a number of University
spin-out companies. In addition he has held
numerous non-executive directorships at start
up and growth companies and has considerable
experience of building and exiting businesses in
the disruptive technology arena.
Outside of Octopus, Luke is an angel investor
and advisor to a number of early stage
companies with a particular interest in the
Artificial Intelligence and Genomics spaces.
Luke sent us this video message summarising
his second year as Chairman which you can
view on our Youtube channel: UMIPmarketing.
