Executive Appointment

RNS Number : 3377D

Tekcapital plc

09 October 2018

 

Tekcapital plc

("Tekcapital" or the "Company")

Executive Appointment

Tekcapital plc, (AIM: TEK) the UK intellectual property investment group focused on creating marketplace value from university technology, announces that Dr Mireya McKee has joined as Business Development Manager.

Mireya has over 17 years of research, technology transfer and innovation management experience.  She completed a Ph. D. in biochemistry from the University of Texas-Austin as a CONACYT fellow. Afterwards, she carried out postdoctoral research in nanotechnology at Oxford University, where she received an EPSRC Developing Future Leaders-Women in Science grant.

She transitioned into business, completing a certification program on the commercialization of scientific research at Oxford's Saïd Business School. Dr McKee also served as a senior consultant in technology transfer for Oxford University Innovation (OUI).

Mireya founded an innovation management consultancy that provided training and support to universities and start-up companies around the globe. As part of this effort, she has become knowledgeable about the innovation ecosystems of Latin American countries where she has assisted a number of government agencies in designing and implementing innovation policies and programs.

Clifford M. Gross Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Tekcapital plc commented:

"We are enthusiastic to have Dr McKee join our team and we are confident she will help to expand our service business in Latin America."

For further information, please contact:

Tekcapital plc Clifford M Gross, Ph.D.		Via Walbrook PR
finnCap Ltd (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)		[phone]
Geoff Nash (Corporate Finance)
Max Bullen-Smith (Corporate Finance)
Camille Gochez (ECM)
Novum Securities (Joint Broker) Colin Rowbury	[phone]
Walbrook PR Ltd	[phone]
Paul Cornelius / Nick Rome / Sam Allen			[e-mail]

Tekcapital plc - The World's Largest University Network for Open Innovation

Tekcapital's objective is to create value from investing in new, university-developed intellectual properties. Additionally, using its proprietary discovery search engine, linked to 4,500+ universities in 160 countries, coupled with expert scientific review, Tekcapital provides a range of IP investment services to make it easy for organisations to find, evaluate, acquire and license university-developed technology. Tekcapital plc is quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: symbol TEK) and is headquartered in Oxford, in the UK. For more information, please visit www.tekcapital.com

 

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