Tim Bestwick
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Biography
Tim Bestwick was appointed UKAEA’s Chief Technology Officer and Director of Strategy, Communications & Business Development in 2018.
Career highlights include:
- Executive Director, Business & Innovation at the Science & Technology Facilities Council.
- Non-Executive Director of the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus.
- Chair of the Eureka Network (the world’s largest international business to business innovation network).
- Non-Executive Director of ten start-up technology companies.
- ‘Innovation Sector Champion’ Award from AIRTO - the membership body for organisations operating in the UK’s innovation, research and technology sector.
- Chair of The Space Partnership Board
Chief Development Officer
Responsibilities include:
- Development of the science campuses at Harwell and Culham
- Leading on UKAEA’s work with private sector fusion companies
- Intellectual property
- Commercialisation of UKAEA technology