Nathan founded Qi3 in June 1999 on the principle of ethical commitment to technology marketing. He is a specialist in technology commercialisation, business development and growth, knowledge transfer and practical sales and marketing.
More recently Nathan set up Qi3 Accelerator, a new branch of Qi3 that specialises in supporting companies via cash and/or management investment. He remains an integral part in running the Qi3 business and continues to support many of our public sector clients, with the rest of his time now as an active investor. 

Nathan’s skills are in sales, sales management, product marketing, strategic portfolio management, acquisitions and general management in export markets. He works with start-ups and in growth situations and loves practical selling. He has supported over 120 new business-academic partnerships and over 20 start-ups. As a lover of startup situations, corporate change and accelerated organic growth, Nathan is a frequent speaker in the technology commercialisation community. Nathan has an MA in Physics from Oxford and has completed the examinations for an MBA from Warwick.

Nathan started his working life as a salesman for Oxford Instruments in Germany. He moved to Bristol to work as subsidiary manager for a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. He returned to Oxford Instruments as a division Marketing and Strategy Director to propel growth in a static core business. He led development of over 50 new products and portfolio reorganisation, including extensive market development in Japan, the USA and Europe. Nathan then became Managing Director of two Cambridge-based acquisitions for Oxford Instruments and was then briefly Marketing Director of Sagentia (then known as Scientific Generics), before setting up Qi3.

Robin is Managing Director of Qi3. He is an experienced business and marketing manager, with a hands on approach to managing growth in high technology businesses.
Robin is heavily involved in leading the private sector side of the business, helping companies to identify new markets via TME’s and advising on product development. He works for clients such as BAE Systems, Unilever and Selex as well as start-ups and SME’s, supporting companies in the commercial exploitation of their new technologies. On the public sector side, Robin leads the Advanced Instrumentation activities within the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics KTN. 

Prior to joining Qi3, Robin worked as Marketing Director of Oxford Instruments Microanalysis Division, Director & General Manager of Oxford Instruments Cardiology and Foetal Monitoring businesses, and Managing Director of Omnifit Ltd, a subsidiary of Halma plc.

Robin has a BSc in Chemistry from Manchester University, and an MBA from the University of Liverpool. He also holds the Diploma in Company Direction awarded by the Institute of Directors and Leeds Business School and a wide range of qualifications attained from courses at Harvard, Henley and Stanford Business schools.

Mark is Operations and Senior Business Development Manager at Qi3. He is responsible for project management of all ESP KTN related activities and Life Science projects. He has a diverse experience, working in both academia and industry, and in both operations and sales roles. As well as the Life Sciences, Mark’s main areas of expertise at Qi3 are Instrumentation, Funding sources, TME’s and market research.

Examples of his work include; managing industry input to a £21 million bid for European funding on behalf of Swansea University and managing the STFC Medical and Life Science SIG – growing a portfolio to 38 projects – worth £18 million. He has also worked on a large number of projects on behalf of the UK Research Councils including a review of the BBSRC follow on fund, which resulted in its revision and launch of the Follow on Fund Pathfinder scheme. See case studies for more detail on these projects.

Mark has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Hull, a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and holds an MBA with distinction, from the University of Warwick. Mark is also a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Prior to Qi3 Mark led the UK division of DNA Sciences Ltd, a pharmacogenetics services company, and later established a new consumable reagents division at NextGen Sciences Ltd.

Amir is a Senior Business Development Manager at Qi3 working in marketing and technology commercialisation roles with both public and private sector clients.
He has led projects for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Technology Strategy Board, and managed the Space Instrumentation & Payloads Group for the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN. International assignments include technology commercialisation work in Russia and in May 2010, Amir was Mission Leader for a UKTI Space trade mission to the USA which included visits to two major NASA centres, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. He also represented the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN on a trade mission to South Korea in 2008. 

He has held engineering and management positions with Fortune 500 companies including Motorola, GE and Honeywell as well as start-up companies. Prior to Qi3 he was Director, Advanced Technologies at GE NovaSensor in California, Project Manager at Innovative Micro Technology and then International Product Manager at SUSS MicroTec.

Amir has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Rajesh is a Senior Business Development Manager at Qi3. He also assists research institutes and private sector clients on technology commercialisation and promotion programmes.
Rajesh’s other key initiatives at Qi3 include delivering go to market programmes, in particular with private sector clients, covering Corporates and SMEs. He has over 15 years advisory experience in helping technology organisations. He has an excellent understanding of key trends in the technology sector and key players in the supply chain. This stems across Communications, IT and Instrumentation technology domains, and in the Financial, Government, Manufacturing and Defence verticals. 

Prior to Qi3, Rajesh co led the business strategy vertical for the communications and IT practice in the UK for the Gartner Group. Here he led Pan European strategy programmes by managing delivery teams globally.

At Qi3 Alex is a Technology Market Researcher, researching and evaluating potential markets for high technology companies. Alex has over 15 years of consultancy experience of assisting clients on market strategy. She has worked across the industry from research organizations and early start-ups to global organizations working with clients on technology exploitation, R&D strategy, new product process design and partner strategy. She has a broad understanding of the IT and telecoms sector with a particular interest in Wireless and Mobile.
Alex has an M.Eng in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University. Prior to joining Qi3 she worked at Sagentia and LEK Consulting. 

She is also part of the Qi3 accelerator team, carrying out market due diligence on potential investees.

Jane is a Market Research Manager at Qi3. She has many years experience in commercial and technology research, as well as publicity and marketing. At Qi3 she is involved in both supporting clients through technology market research and marketing communications activities.
Jane project manages the CEOI knowledge exchange programme, conducting TME’s and producing technology transfer events. Her excellent research skills were instrumental in conducting a project for the UK Space delegation mapping research of the Chinese Space Industry and she also played a key role in running the STFC Knowledge Exchange club. 

Before joining Qi3, Jane spent over 9 years in a research consultancy managing and researching business and technology related projects. Other experience includes media research management with Clear Channel in London and time spent as a researcher with KPMG Consulting.

Jane has a BSc in Psychology, a Diploma in Human Geography and is an Associate of the Marketing Research Society.

Indre manages the Cambridge and London offices and is PA to Nathan Hill. As part of this she is responsible for Qi3’s website and marketing communications programme, she is also a part of the Qi3 Accelerator team and manages the Qi3 Accelerator Club. 

Indre’s background is in business development and marketing as well as office management, having spent the last four years working for Apple Europe and MassMedia Studios. During this time she helped to create and deliver high profile business development programmes for the BBC, Tate, V&A, Royal Opera House etc. and digital marketing campaigns for Vue cinemas, Unilever and Cadbury.

Indre has a BA in Business Administration and Management from University of Vilnius and MA in Marketing Management from University of Westminster.

Deepa is the Marketing Officer at Qi3. She is responsible for marketing co-ordination and client support. Her main responsibility is promoting and managing our public sector industry clubs and events, in particular for the ESP KTN, NERC and CEOI. 

For the last 6 years Deepa has worked in marketing, events management and public relations for a range of different industries from agriculture to education, enabling her to work on a diverse range of marketing campaigns. Deepa has a BA Hons Degree in Public Relations and Journalism from the University of Lincoln.

Paul is a Qi3 Associate having recently been engaged with several start-ups in drug delivery, renewable energy, cleantech, digital printing and fire suppression systems. He is an active mentor within entrepreneurial support organisations including the EEDA Understanding Finance for Business programme and is a member of Cambridge Angels. 

Paul was co-founder and COO of Inca Digital Printers where he created and grew a manufacturing and customer service operation turning over £25M. Prior to that, he worked at Cambridge Consultants, Michelin Tyre plc and Argo Cars. He has 20 years experience as an engineer in complex, high-pressure development environments, together with a wealth of commercial experience in international B2B operations. He also has experience in medical device development, consumer product development, process development, automation and cleantech.

Currently Paul is a non-executive director at Plumis and at Lumejet, a member of the scientific advisory board at Oval Medical and an associate at 42 Technology.

Roger is a Qi3 Business Development Associate working in the Space sector.  He has actively contributed to business growth in a number of companies in the telecoms, broadcast and earth observation space industry sectors, most recently in sales and marketing, engineering management and in business development roles. 

Roger was founder of Communications & Technology Consultants Ltd in the 90’s, providing support services to national satellite operators, agencies and manufacturers.  He has also acted as Engineering Manager, Project Manager and Business Development Manager in extended, multi-tier contractual environments around the world.  He has been able to combine a broad and deep knowledge of a number of technical areas with many years of commercial and business management experience.

Roger has a BSc in Electrical Engineering Science (System Control) from the University of Salford, an MSc in Microwave Engineering and Modern Optics, with Postgraduate Diploma, from University College, London and an MBA from the Open University Business School.  He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Roger is currently a Director of High Q Systems Ltd.

Peter is a Business Development Associate at Qi3. He is an experienced marketing practitioner and management consultant, with a track record in manufacturing industry, technology consultancy and university technology transfer. 

Peter’s pragmatic yet thorough approach has helped many UK and international companies to identify and exploit new business opportunities, improve their innovation performance and revitalise their technology management processes.  His consultancy work has included projects in the materials and chemicals sector, advanced engineering and medical diagnostics, with clients such as British Airways, De La Rue, DSM, ICI, Roche Diagnostics and Smith & Nephew, as well as small and start-up companies.

More recently he developed a novel, market-driven methodology for technology transfer, based on identification of clients’ strategic needs and a network of contacts in Europe’s leading universities and research institutes.

After an initial career in the internaional marketing and sales of engineering polymers and speciality chemicals, he moved into management consultancy with PA Technology, before co-founding a niche strategy consulting firm.  Peter then joined The Technology Partnership (TTP), where he helped client companies achieve sustainable growth through exploitation of their technological assets.  His time with TTP included a 4-year secondment to Cranfield University to establish and lead a new technology transfer activity, where he also coordinated the formation and equity funding of one of the university’s first spin-out companies.

Peter holds an honours degree in Chemistry with Physics from Newcastle University, an MSc in Polymer Technology from Loughborough University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.  His affiliations include membership of the Worshipful Company of Marketers, the City of London livery company dedicated to promoting excellence in marketing.

Tim is a Qi3 Associate and experienced commercial and investment professional with wide-ranging expertise in early-stage technology companies.

Tim’s background is in management consultancy (with Arthur Andersen), investment banking (as a Small Companies analyst with BZW), and early-stage equity investing. He is an experienced NED and currently acts as Investment Director at Thames Valley Capital where he undertakes deal sourcing, preliminary assessment, negotiation of terms, due diligence, transaction completion and post-deal portfolio management.

Prior to this, Tim founded Origin Corporate Finance Ltd, a general management consultancy practice.  His investment transactions cover a range of sectors including power and control electronics, medical devices & biotechnology, mobile software and digital media.  Tim is currently Non-Executive Chairman of GenDrive Ltd, Non-Executive Director at Lein Applied Diagnostics Ltd and Board Observer at Microtest Matrices Ltd.

Tim holds a first class degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol and an MA in Screen Documentary from the University of London.

Craig is a Senior Business Development Manager at Qi3. He has worked on a number of private and public sector consultancy projects. He has extensive experience in product innovation, prototype development, technology due diligence, IP management, project management, interim management and troubleshooting. 

At Qi3 Craig has worked with Sensors & Instrumentation KTN, project managed various space instrumentation projects, worked on an infrared camera for the National Gallery for Technology Enterprise, and advised on instrumentation for terrestrial astronomy as System Engineer. He has helped a number of start-up companies, providing technology, product and innovation advice and interim management.

Prior to Qi3 he held Engineering and Technical Director roles at Oxford Instruments, PLC where he was responsible for a team of 80 PhD qualified engineers and design draughtspersons, designing £20m+ of product per annum, and as CTO of Wharfedale PLC, where he led the R&D team and also undertook due diligence for acquisitions. Craig has also worked as a Director of Maran and Co in the field of Intellectual Properties. Craig has a PhD in Laser Physics at Southampton University.