John Steedman
With a 30-year international career with BP, John has held senior level positions in strategy development and R&D and across sales, marketing, and business management. Product commercialisation was a recurrent theme involving process development, testing, specification, scale-up, and supply chain management. Building on this experience and application of both the licensing business model and corporate venturing, he helped to run a Commercialisation Practitioner Course for Technologists. He has a BSc in Environmental Chemistry, PhD in Organic Chemistry, both from the University of Edinburgh, and an MBA from the Open University.