Prof. Amlan Bhusan
About
Amlan Bhusan is a transnational management consultant with over 16 years of experiences, undertaking several high value consulting projects, in diverse geographic and economic settings and in as many as eleven different countries. From strategy to diversification, from consolidation of inefficient business units to effective human capital management, from public and commercial diplomacy programmes for government agencies, to corporate communications, strategic recruitment, and other core knowledge management functions, Amlan has been active across several portfolios.Amlan has led several companies, advised a range of startups and sat on the Boards of incubators in different countries, and maintained a strong presence in public sector research, analysis and training. Besides general consultancy, Amlan also has a history in social advocacy, resulting in a range of assignments for some of the world’s largest known law firms, specialising in sustainability, agricultural finance, and rural development. In addition, his consulting terrain further over the years, has diversified into rehabilitative urbanization, labour mobility, skills development, sustainable livelihoods and capability development for local and regional government agencies in several countries. Amlan has worked on a range of large-scale projects in Denmark, Sweden, USA and continental Europe.
Amlan advises a range of large family offices in Zurich, Switzerland on their global investments in the urban infrastructure and more in the applied research sectors: urban mobility, sustainable housing and Green smart cities.
Amlan is a graduate in Public policy from the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and also has research Masters degrees in Business and Economics from Lund University, Sweden. In 2006, he was nominated to a Doctorate of Letters Honoris Causa.
Amlan trains twice annually at a Government management education facility in Singapore and continues to engage with his alma mater Lund University in Sweden on various programmes throughout the year.He maintains programme advisory visitorships with two major business schools one in Sydney,Australia and the other in Wellington, New Zealand. Amlan also teaches one course in regulatory environment of Business at the Indian Institute of Management, supporting one PhD student annually, within the department of Public policy and Governance. He also is the course coordinator for a graduate course in Economics, at the National Institute Technology,India, also supporting the creation of a north east research platform on their campus.
Dr. Mark Mann
About
Mark Mann is the Managing Director of two companies providing strategic innovation services across Europe. His services include training, innovation policy development and impact management with a focus on applied projects, particularly in social innovation and arts, humanities and social sciences commercialisation. He is also a Director of Divine Ox, an impact measurement company focused on SMEs.
Having gained extensive experience as the lead for social venture creation and Humanities and Social Sciences Commercialisation at the University of Oxford’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), Oxford University Innovation Ltd (OUI), his clients have included the universities of Kent, Bristol, York, Surrey, Sussex, Cardiff, Swansea, Exeter, Lancaster, University College London, Pantheon Sorbonne, and Charles University in Prague. His work for these universities has focused on pioneering new initiatives, whether it is starting a new service commercializing areas of university research that haven’t been served before, or prioritizing workload through impact tracking and measurement, the preferred emphasis for a project output is always that a new initiative which has gone live and is starting to work.
As a freelance technology transfer specialist, he directly supported spinning out thirteen companies from the University of Oxford, two of which have already exited, covering the breadth of its research output. Through his role as a startup mentor he has contributed to dozens more. He has represented the University of Oxford on the board of five spinouts, and provides training to the rest of the technology transfer profession through its professional bodies and Oxentia. All start-ups and spinouts he has helped have been provided with development and implementation of relationships with university stakeholders to further validate the impact measurement methodology, provide access to key teaching leads, and to secure access to baseline data. Development and implementation of scale-up strategy, protection of IP, identification and engagement with well-matched investors to best deliver the strategy. Working with start-ups to validate a realistic and meaningful impact data approach. During his last year at OUI, he worked on a project to develop an impact measurement framework targeted at start-ups and the SDGs.
Mark has supported sOPHIa in its many activities since 2017, helping to spin sOPHIa Oxford UK out of the University of Oxford in 2018.
Additional Information
Director
Mark Mann OÜ,
Harju maakond, Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Narva mnt 5, 10117, Estonia.
Director
Divine Ox,
Market Harborough, U.K.
Education
University of Cambridge
PhD, Electrical Engineering · (2004 - 2007)
University of Cambridge
MSci/MA, Natural Sciences · (1999 - 2003)
Fields
- Impact Tracking and Measurement
- Commercialisation
- IP Protection and Scale-Up Strategy
- Licensing and Spinning Out
- Developing engagement with projects from Chemistry, Engineering Science, Physics and Computer Science, and Humanities & Social Sciences