Dr Alan Mawson

KANDO id: 15094

Bio

Founder and Executive Chairman of Clarendon Fund Managers, and was a founder director of Electra Innvotec in 1988. Director of the general partner and member of the audit committee of the Rainbow Seed Fund, an £8.5 million fund set up to commercialise technology arising from the UK public sector research laboratories, and was a director and on the Investment Approvals Committee of NorthStar Equity Investors Ltd until recently. A former consultant with McKinsey & Co, and a Director of Research and Engineering of Wiggins Teape, Dr Mawson is an organic and polymer research chemist. Member of the Court and a Past Master of the Salter's Company. Chairman of the Board of the University of Salford's wholly owned subsidiary, University of Salford Enterprise Ltd, which holds the University's investments in spin-out companies until becoming Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the University Council. Also a board member of the Salter’s Institute that manages a £2m pa educational programme including university Chemistry Clubs and summer schools for 15 year-olds at universities throughout the UK and in Ireland. PhD from the University of Lancaster and an MBA from MIT (Cambridge, Mass).

Education