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Meet the Business Partnerships team
Catherine Hasted, Head of Business Partnerships
Catherine leads the Business Partnerships team based in the University's Strategic Partnerships Office, working with business partners and colleagues from across the University to cultivate high impact partnerships.
Previously, Catherine worked in senior leadership roles in commercial and not for-profit organisations and has founded two successful companies. Catherine holds a PhD and maintains an active research interest in catalysing learning between universities and industry.
Simon Daly, Business Partnerships Manager
Simon has responsibility for helping new and existing corporate partners establish a rewarding relationship with the University. He has a longstanding track-record of successful business management experience in the academic, charity and commercial sectors and a passion for entrepreneurship within the university sector.
Simon is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and has extensive experience of creating and developing successful knowledge exchange partnerships between academia and a broad range of industrial/corporate partners.
Manar Alsaif, Business Partnerships Manager (Energy)
Manar’s role is to manage existing and develop new strategic business partnerships in the energy sector.
Previously, she worked as a geologist at Schlumberger, where her career in the energy sector spanned the full science and technology cycle, from research, to technology to operations and training. Manar holds a PhD in Earth Science and her expertise lies in structural geology and geodynamics.
Tammy Dougan, Business Partnerships Manager (Life Sciences)
Tammy manages the strategic partnerships within the life sciences and healthcare sector, working closely with University academics, senior business leaders and other Cambridge industry-facing initiatives to identify potential areas of collaboration. Tammy also manages the University’s partnership with GSK.
Tammy holds an MSc (Kings College, London) and PhD (JCU, Australia) in Immunology and has worked for over 25 years in research, strategy and programme management in the area of healthcare, life science and biotech.
Mark Hayes, Business Partnerships Manager (Digital and AI)
Mark manages the University's partnership with Aviva which is centred on data science. He also provides oversight, coordination and advice for the University's key industry partnerships across the digital sector.
Mark has worked in IT systems and project management since 1995. He has built sensor networks for air quality monitoring, data management systems for radiotherapy treatment of cancer and studied how to measure data quality.
Tyler Shores, ThinkLab Programme Manager
Tyler manages the University of Cambridge ThinkLab Programme, which connects researchers with public and private sector organisations to produce research impact at scale.
He is completing his PhD in Education at Cambridge, where his research focuses upon reading habits, social media and the impact of digital technology in everyday life. Tyler received his Master’s Degree at the University of Oxford, and has previously worked at Google, running the Authors@Google programme, one of the world’s largest collections of online lectures. He has also served as director of digital content at an international education non-profit organisation and worked at the Stanford University (USA) online high school programme.
Marianna Kaimaki, Business Analyst
Marianna is responsible for gathering and interpreting data on business partnerships to provide data insight and support to business sector managers, the Head of Business Partnerships and senior academics across the University. She is also managing a pump priming fund for industrial related activity and works with the Communications Manager on events.
Marianna has previously worked in the Education Quality and Policy Office and the Research Office at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Linguistics and has also worked as a lecturer and researcher in the area of Conversation Analysis and Phonetics.
Sarah Fell, Communications Manager
Sarah’s role is to showcase the many different ways in which businesses can work with the University of Cambridge.
She was previously a senior executive at Cambridge University Press, led on marketing and communications for the University’s Institute for Manufacturing and ran her own successful communications business.
