UCLB CEO Dr Anne Lane started her career as a geneticist and completed a PhD and British Heart Foundation Junior Fellowship at UCL, before teaching and researching at Harvard University and Medical School. Anne helped to move UCL’s commercialisation activities into a wholly-owned subsidiary, establishing UCL Business Ltd (UCLB) in 2006. She has been CEO since 2019, working on the establishment of the two UCL Technology Funds raising in excess of £120m which has supported many spinout businesses formed by UCL academics to commercialise their research and technologies. Anne acts as board director on several UCLB spinout companies, including UCL Consultants Ltd, and is a member of the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) Advisory Board. Anne holds a BSc in Applied Biochemistry from Liverpool John Moores University, a PhD in medicine from UCL and an Executive MBA from Molson Business School, Montreal, Canada.