Strategy, Venture and Innovation Consultant

Successfully supported and built out programs tailoring to the needs and challenges of the selected companies. Enhance accelerator portfolio strategy through relationships with over 100 mentors, subject matter experts and +30 Program partners. Map local, regional and international startup ecosystems, maintain relationships with key stakeholders and build pipelines of investable opportunities. Support the identification and onboarding of DEI partners and policies.

In this role I source and build relationships with startups and scaleups from around the globe who are interested in acceleration or seeking further investment. In particular, I focus on companies in the sports and healthcare ecosystems.

• Responsible for identifying, screening and engaging with startups from around the world and undertaking the appropriate due diligence process for shortlisted candidates
• Analyse new markets, identify market-leaders, competitors and opinion leaders in the digital health and sports tech ecosystems.
• Provide industry-specific knowledge and insights into the clinical and practical implications of patient/athlete focused technology
• Defining the outreach and selection criteria processes.
• Creating and contributing to a variety of decks and presentations
• Tracking and measuring success against KPIs
• Supporting the team with a wider range of tasks when required
• Maintaining, filing and optimising our startup database

Modern private clinic providing biomechanical, metabolic and general podiatric care.

• Management of pathology across of a range of medical conditions
• Educate patients regarding conditions and treatment options
• Developed easily understandable condition-specific information packs for patients
• Produced simplified medical information for prospective and current patients on clinic website
• Research and critical analysis of new clinical management and treatment guidelines
• Diabetes, wound care and dermatology assessment and management
• Collaborated with research team to assist in set-up of clinical trial
• Communicated, coordinated and liaised effectively with other healthcare professionals to ensure best practice and patient care
• Interpreted clinical findings to deduce appropriate treatment plans and follow- up
• Developed and implemented new musculoskeletal assessment protocols to better reflect appointment time allocations and to standardise communication between clinicians
• Designed and implemented of new data protection policies in keeping with GDPR guidelines
• Attended relevant conferences and scientific meetings to maintain and develop continuous professional development
• Maintain accurate medical records and document patient case history in detail

• General Podiatric Care
• Screening for Type 2 Diabetes (Neurological & Vascular)
• Biomechanical assessment and orthotic prescription
• Treatment and management of High Risk patients
• Kinesiology taping
• Nail surgery
• Footcare Education
• Sports injury assessment, management & prevention
• Verruca therapy
• Ulcer Management/ treatment