Matthew has been part of the founding team of Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult since 2012, taking on the post of CEO in 2020. Prior to this, he was Chief Business Officer responsible for the strategy, communications, marketing, and business development.

He is credited with leading the design and implementation of the commercial model for the highly successful Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult Stevenage Manufacturing Innovation Centre and being a global champion for the early integration of healthcare economics and reimbursement expertise into decision-making and clinical product design. He began his career in international investment banking and venture capital and has successfully invested in and managed a number of biotechnology SMEs and regional operations of multinational organisations.

He has an MA from the University of Oxford in Pure and Applied Biology, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the charity Parkinson’s UK.

Martin McHugh is Chief Executive of the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult driving its approach to accelerate the UK industry’s ability to exploit advancements in compound semiconductor technologies, Martin has over 30 years’ experience in technical and business development roles covering both Europe and North America.

He is a patent holder and has spoken at international conferences in North America and Europe on Advanced Packaging in the area of Medical Implantable Devices. With 15 years’ experience in collaborative research and development, Martin has been engaged in 30 programs with a total project value of £50M covering Advanced Packaging, Embedded Die Technology, High Temperature Electronics and Wafer Scale Modules while at Microsemi.

He sits on the Industrial Advisory Board for the School of Engineering at Cardiff University and is an active member of Compound Semiconductor Cluster in South Wales.

Previously, Nicola was Chief Executive at Bristol City Council, Hull City Council and North Shropshire District Council and amongst multiple successes in delivering local economic prosperity, she helped establish the internationally recognised ‘Bristol is Open’ initiative in 2014, working with Nokia, NEC, and Interdigital Ltd.

She is currently a trustee for the independent policy think tank ‘Centre for Cities’ and is a member of SOLACE – Society for Local Authority Chief Executives and the Chartered Institute of Housing. Nicola received an OBE in 2010 for services to local government.

Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult, is an entrepreneur, author and angel investor. He is a Trustee of the British Library and a member of the UK Creative Industries Council. Jeremy sits on the boards of HammerheadVR Ltd, Imaginarium Studios Ltd and FeedForward.AI.

He was previously Executive Chairman of Semetric (acquired by Apple), Founder CEO of Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a strategic advisor to Shazam (acquired by Apple), and CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid). Jeremy was Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles and Head of Media at Virgin Records where he worked with Genesis, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry, among others.

His book “Digital Medieval” is a history of the music industry online. He has spoken at TEDx, Houses of Parliament, the CBI, SXSW and Midem among many trade events. He is an Industry Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Guy was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Energy Systems Catapult, the innovation business, in June 2022. Guy joined Energy Systems Catapult in 2018 as Director of Strategy after working as an energy and political adviser to two UK Government Secretaries of State; Greg Clark and Amber Rudd.

In Government, he was involved in many key decisions, including closing the UK’s coal-fired power stations, greater independence for the electricity system operator, and as an architect of the Clean Growth Strategy. Before joining Government, he was Head of Policy at the challenger energy supplier, OVO Energy and Head of Environment and Energy at the influential think tank, Policy Exchange.

He was previously a journalist, including three years as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong for the international newswire, AFP. He is a non-executive director with UK100, a charity campaigning for greater environmental action by local authorities. He lives in Enfield, with his wife and two children.

A proud ambassador of British industry, Katherine Bennett joined the HVM Catapult as CEO in June 2021 after 16 years at Airbus where she was a Senior Vice President.

In Airbus, Katherine was the UK voice and face of the global aerospace manufacturer and her responsibilities included developing Airbus in the UK strategy, leading the country’s Public Affairs activities, high-profile media engagement and representing the Company on various committees, boards and initiatives including VentilatorChallengeUK.

Prior to joining Airbus, Katherine headed up the government affairs function at Vauxhall Motors and worked for Hill and Knowlton Public Relations in London, working with a range of industrial clients. Katherine’s significant contribution to the aerospace and aviation sector was recognised with the Order of Commander of the British Empire in January 2019. She also has an Honorary Doctorate from Cranfield University.

Today Katherine continues to invest working and personal time serving numerous public and private enterprises. Katherine is passionate about people and has led multiple industry initiatives aimed at ensuring diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace. When Katherine is not hard at work she can be found singing in a choir or playing the organ at her local church.

Chris Molloy has a 30-year international board and executive career across a unique range of life sciences R&D disciplines. His career began in preclinical research at Glaxo, where he was closely involved with the industrialisation of high throughput discovery. In 2004 he moved to Asia as COO of MerLion Pharmaceuticals, a Singaporean biotech that developed into an award-winning multinational anti-infectives R&D biotech.

Chris then ran corporate development for the global informatics firm, idbs during which time it won a Queens Award for Enterprise, became a Fast-track 100 company, and the first UK firm to develop a stratified medicine software platform using real-world health data.

Chris spent three years as CEO of the RSA Group, the global life science executive search specialist, before in 2016 becoming the founding CEO of the Medicines Discovery Catapult: the national centre for innovation in drug discovery. During its first five years the MDC has leveraged its Innovate UK grant by fourfold, worked with over 150 UK companies and assisted the discovery of UK drug assets worth over £1bn. During the pandemic Chris was the founding Director of the Lighthouse Labs – the largest diagnostics project in UK history – and chaired the industry-governmental consortium that increased UK lateral flow manufacturing capacity by twenty-fold. Chris is the non-executive chairman of Thriva – a pioneer in at-home diagnostics; Exploristics and NorthWest EHealth: two UK tech companies using Real World healthcare data to improve clinical development.

He chairs the IP Advisory Committee for the Association of Medical Research Charities and the Industry Advisory Board for Manchester’s Biomedical Research Centre & Health Innovation Manchester. Chris is a Member of the Institute of Cancer Research and holds an honorary chair at the University of Manchester.

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, a UK-wide technology and innovation centre supporting businesses to accelerate the design, deployment and commercialisation of offshore renewable energy – wind, wave, and tidal power. The Catapult provides deep technical expertise and market pathway support alongside large-scale plant test capabilities, enabling UK supply chain growth from SMEs to the world’s largest companies.

He was previously at ScottishPower where he was latterly responsible for energy policy and regulation in the renewables business. He sits on the Scottish Government’s Energy Advisory Board, is a past Chair of Renewable UK and Scottish Renewables, and has led a number of reports for Government, including the Cost Reduction Task Force for Offshore Wind in 2012.

Andrew is a Non-Executive Director of AIRTO, the Association for Innovation, Research and Technology Organisations, the foremost membership body for organisations operating in the UK’s innovation, research, and technology sector.

John Abbott is the new CEO of the Satellite Applications Catapult. He joined the Catapult from the Real Estate Registry in Saudi Arabia, where he was Chief Digital Officer. John was instrumental in the delivery of the Kingdom’s first ever registry of land ownership as part of a public-private partnership supported by the Public Investment Fund.

John was previously Director of Digital Data and Technology and a member of the Executive Board at HM Land Registry, where he led a successful £200m digital transformation programme and the organisation’s pioneering open innovation programme, Digital Street. Prior to this he was Head of Digital Products at Ordnance Survey where he was responsible for digitising and publishing the organisation’s geospatial data as well as the Innovations Lab and Geovation, a successful start-up incubator, which has supported more than 150 early-stage businesses which together have raised £130m. Earlier roles included Product Director at Mimecast, the UK tech company acquired by Permira for $5.8Bn. He has an MBA from Imperial College London and is married with three children.