Lynne McGregor is an Innovation Lead in the Innovate UK High Value Manufacturing team focusing on Industry 4.0 and the use of digital tools to enable manufacturing productivity improvements and new business opportunities to the benefit of the UK economy.

Prior to this, McGregor spent 8 years at Imperial Innovations, running an incubation service for start-up companies, leading seed investment rounds, and serving on spin-out company boards, where she has also helped troubleshoot early stage challenges in these companies.

McGregor’s early career was spent in engineering companies such as Stone & Webster (now Technip), ABB, and Aspentech, where she specialized in the areas of automation, advanced control, simulation and modelling. Her breadth of experience encompasses project management, product development, market evaluation, investment appraisal, sales & marketing, and business strategy and planning.

Her background is in chemical engineering, with a degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and an MBA from London Business School.

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