Peter Cochrane OBE, DSc, PhD

I have been professionally engaged in science, technology and engineering for over 40 years, and my primary focus remains the solving of problems and the creation of wealth through the application of new technologies and business solutions.

During my life I have had the good fortune to work with exceptional people in governments, companies and major international operations, but the icing on the cake has been the creation and management of teams up to 2500 people with budgets in excess of £1Bn, and my senior roles as CTO, CEO and Director in the UK and USA.

At the same time I have also been a visiting professor, advisor, and external examiner to major universities in the EU and USA, and continue to be actively engaged as a consultant, speaker and mentor with investment interests in start up companies. But that is not all...

...after 25 years of deep specialisation I decided (circa 1990) to become a generalist - to try and understand the wider 'jigsaw puzzle' of science and technology...and what a very rich road of experience and understanding it turned out to be...