About Infinitesima
- Leading The Way
- Milestones
- Management Team
- Board of Directors
- Advisors
- Investors
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Board of Directors
Infinitesima's Board is led by Chairman Dr. Paul Atherton and is made up of investors, executives and leading advisors.
Dr. Paul Atherton
Chairman
Dr. Atherton is an active investor in technology companies in the UK and is well-known for recognising disruptive technologies and guiding them to commercial success. As a founder of Queensgate Technology, Dr. Atherton led the company through 23 years of continuous growth. Queensgate was sold to SDL Inc. in 2000, which subsequently was acquired by JDS Uniphase.
Dr. Atherton currently sits on the Board of Directors of Imperial Innovations, the technology transfer unit of Imperial College. Dr. Atherton has a PhD. in Physics from Imperial College and an MBA from the London School of Business.
Dr. Neil Bradshaw
Dr Neil Bradshaw is Director of Enterprise at the University of Bristol, responsible for the University's enterprise agenda. He directs the Enterprise Team which has five remits - the development of education and training in enterprise and entrepreneurship, the protection of University IPR, the support and development of technology transfer through licensing and spinout, supporting early stage companies, including incubation, and improving the University's enterprise relations with industry and Government at a regional and national level. Neil chairs the management team of the SETSquared Partnership which brings together the enterprise activities of the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey, and is the Chair of the University Companies Association (UNICO). Neil has many years of experience of working at the interface between research and industry, including working in the scientific instrumentation industry and most recently as Director of Innovation and Technology at an economic development consultancy.
Richard Gourlay
Richard has since 2005 been Managing Director of Sussex Place Ventures which manages two Venture Capital Funds associated with London Business School. He was an investment director at Top Technology Ltd from 1996 to 2004, providing early stage venture capital for British technology companies. For 12 years he served on the board of nCipher, which floated on the LSE in 2000 and was sold to Thales in 2008, and he is now on the Boards of 365IT and Infinitesima, and an observer on the Boards of Phosphonics, My Goodness Limited and Emdot.
He spent 10 years with the Financial Times, initially in Asia as a foreign correspondent, and then managed the paper's coverage of the venture capital and private equity markets in the UK and Europe before becoming a venture capital investor in 1996.
He started his career at Citibank after graduating with a BSc in economics from Queen Mary College, London University.