As the inventor of the carbon air spring, featured in Audis and mountain bikes worldwide, I have a long record of spotting technical opportunities and bringing people together to exploit them commercially.
Before founding Sorpra and Carbon Air, I had developed a novel drone system, "Hoverwing", a small fixed-wing UAV capable of stable transition from hover to forward flight
using a novel pendulum system. I also developed several academic/industrial collaborations and managed the development of 11 patent families worldwide, negotiated license agreements and won several rounds of UK/EU grant funding as well as over £5M in Angel and VC investment.More...