Huw Edwards

Huw Edwards is part of Oxford Innovation's team of innovation advisors.  His experience spans strategic and tactical aspects of knowledge transfer for the businesses, industries, public bodies and academic institutions, underpinning the international knowledge based economy. He has been involved in a comprehensive portfolio of strategy projects conducted in the UK and abroad, a wide selection of high technology development projects for individual academic institutions and industry, backed up with many years experience in project management and project evaluation. For the past 15 years Huw has been an expert advisor to the European Commission.  He assisted the European Commission in drafting parts of the FP7 programme. He continues to help the EC with grant reviews in Micro and Nano technology and the IT for Health programme.

In addition to his in depth understanding of grant funding, Huw advises life-science companies on venture capital and business angel funding.  He is a regular panellist on the European Biotech Finance Forum, which brings new companies and Venture Capitalists together and for over ten years now he has played an active role in recruiting companies, advising companies and investors and brokering links for Oxford Innovations business angel networks [OION, OEI and TVIN].