Brian McCaul

An experienced knowledge transfer CEO with wide-ranging experience in company creation, business and enterprise, and innovation policy and practice - gained over 27 years in private business and the university sectors, and countries. Consistently as the cutting-edge of new practice in knowledge exchange.

• Member of the DSIT Business Innovation Forum
• Member of the Northern Ireland Dept of the Economy Science & Technology Foresight Panel: Matrix NI
• Prior Chair of AURIL (predessor to PraxisAuril - professional body for KE practitioners & prior Member of the Lambert Review inner core team, which created the the Lambert IP protocol and standard research contracts.
• Prior Member of the Steering Group (and contributing author) for "Managing Intellectual Assets", A Guide to Strategic Decision-Making in Universities. (AURIL, UK Patents Office, Universities UK, HEFCE and BIS). Also involved in its first edition in 2003.
• Researcher on EPSRC Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge
• Chapter contributor: Creating Wealth from Knowledge: Meeting the Innovation Challenge, edited by J. R. Bessant, Ti Venables, (Edward Edgar Publishing 2010)
• Chapter contributor 'The Growing Business Handbook: Inspiration and Advice from Successful Entrepreneurs and Growing Businesses', (Kogan Page Publishers, Apr 2014) edited: Adam Jolly.

• Past Chairman, Association for University Research and Industrial Links
• Associate of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
• Member Institute of Directors
• Member of PraxisAuril and regularly speaker at both predecessor organisation's conferences over decades

Board member of 39 companies to-date, ranging from main market listed PLC, to a wide range of startups (assisting or initiating), including as founder and investor, chairman, and secretary. A number of these included full P&L responsibility, and CEO roles.

These Board portions range from small startup, high growth tech startup, public limited companies. This has ranged from software, to engineering and advanced manufacturing and various areas of life science and biotech

• James O'Kane, prior Chair of QUBIS Ltd (previous Registrar and COO - Queen's University Belfast)
• Helen Kirkpatrick current Chair of QUBIS Ltd
• Details available on request (please confirm prior to contact).

Details of my prior roles and directorships can be found on my linked in profile.  I have had over 40 board postions, many in my own startups, other in startups i have had close hand in establishing