Tech Rocketship Winners:
Virtual Mission

Tony Hughes

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- Co-founder & Director of Focus Innovation
- Co-founder & Director of Curator Technologies
- Sector Specialist, Department for International Trade (DIT)
- External Board Advisor, BBC & Hewlett Packard
- Director of International Centre for Digital Content

JeeYoon Hong

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- UCLA – Neuroscience B.S.
- Calyx – Product Management
- RCA – Service Design M.A.
- Anthemis – Early Stage Investor/Product Lead

James Blakemore

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James is the Managing Director and Founder of JMB Partnership for more than 14 years. James has been helping international businesses grow and succeed, and manages sales teams across B2B and B2C sectors. 70% of his clientele are from overseas and helped more than 350 overseas companies enter the UK market. Some of the key sectors James is involved in are: software & IT, renewable energy, manufacturing and consumer goods. James is also the winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, appointed as the UK Government Export Champion, and fully certified by the UK Government’s UKAN network.

Dr. Peter Sargent

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Dr. Peter Sargent obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from King’s College London, and has a vast experience in Vitro Diagnostic and Drug Development companies. Dr. Peter Sargent has also led R&D functions in the development and commercialization of healthcare products and services. He currently supports companies in their product development to bring them into the NHS, oversees work with the Department for Health and DIT to promote UK globally. Dr. Sargent also helps overseas life sciences companies to gain access to expertise, facilities and funding from across the NIHR and wider UK health system.

Simon Smith

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▶ Opening Speech
Simon Smith has been the British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea since March 2018. He began his career in the Diplomatic Service in 1986, and has also worked at the British Embassies in Kiev, Vienna, Tokyo and Moscow. Simon is from Bristol, and studied German and French at Oxford University.

Derek Goodwin

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▶ Opening Speech
Derek has spent more than 30 years creating and leading strategic global innovation initiatives on behalf of the UK Government and the private sector which have provided significant economic development benefits including many hundreds of investments and several thousands of jobs. After a successful spell working in the US tech sector, Derek set up DIT’s pioneering Global Entrepreneur Programme in 2004 and has been responsible for attracting nearly 1000 innovative and fast growth technology start-ups and scale ups to the UK. These internationally mobile companies have relocated to scale and internationalise from a UK HQ and their success has helped them raise over £1bn in equity funding and create over 7000 high value jobs. Derek also played a major role in establishing the Tech City cluster in London, serving as the first Chief Operating Officer of UKTI’s Tech City Investment Organisation (now Technation). This was set up in 2010 to support the development of the East London tech cluster and his work on this immensely successful initiative helped propel Tech City to become the digital capital of Europe.