While iCue remains managed and operated by students, we have support from a number of official bodies and companies. In addition, we have a Board of Advisors who support, assist and guide us with projects.
Board of Advisors
The role of the Board of Advisors is to share their knowledge and experience with the iCue project teams. They do not participate in every project but are there as a guide and mentor to assist the team with any specific problems.
In order to help iCue achieve its mission of academic and skill diversity, iCue have picked the Board of Advisors carefully. We have advisors from many disciplines, backgrounds and areas of expertise. Moreover, as iCue is constantly expanding and adding to its core competencies, the board will always be updated to ensure that we continue to have the best external advice.
- Angela Mathis - Think Tank Mathematics (CEO)
- Angela is a professional sales person: she has experience in plastics, explosives and electronics. She created a distribution for Iomega in the 90s bringing over 600M Euros in revenues to the company.
- Brian Verth - Manager of the Consultancy Bureau, University of Edinburgh
- As the manager of the University of Edinburgh Consulting Services, Brian Verth is in close contact with academic staff and colleagues to market Edinburgh Research and Innovation both domestically and internationally. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland, where he qualified in 1970. Brain Verth has held management positions with several subsidiary firms of a large multi-health care company and his experience includes Management, Distribution, Marketing and Customer Service. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 1995.
- Grant Wheeler - Business Advisor for the Scottish Institute for Enterprise
Grant is the manager of the University of Edinburgh's technology company incubator, the Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre and provides commercialisation support to student-led pre-companies through his work with the Scottish Institute for Enterprise. ETTC provides project offices and business development support to early stage companies developing technologies initially conceived within the University. Previous and current tenants include Voxar, Intralect, ReacTec and Simulistics.
SIE provides a range of educational, training and commercialisation services to students of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh with an interest in, or ambition to, establish a technology based company. Companies assisted, or being assisted, by SIE include Critical Blue, Lux Biotechnology, LinearB and Lutess.
- Stuart Miller (Young Enterprise Scotland)
- Head of Young Enterprise Scotland.
- Tricia Fox (Bacon, Eggs and Entrepreneurs)
- Tricia is a marketing executive at Volpa.
- Sharon Bamford (Scottish Institute for Enterprise)
- Sharon is the head of SIE
- Katie Ridland (Junior Chamber of Commerce)
- Katie is an amazing speaker and workshop provider. She has won awards in debating
- Carmen Sanchez-Torres (Ex- JADE Alumnus)
- Carmen used to be on the Board of JADE Europe
- Hamish Robertson (Robertson Technologies, Ex-MD of iCUE) Partners
JADE
iCue is a member of JADE; a student-run, pan-European network representing about 20.000 young entrepreneurs in more than 150 local non-profit organisations (Junior Enterprises).
JADE was founded in 1992 as an international non-profit and non-political organisation to promote entrepreneurship among European students. JADE fosters the development of Europe’s Junior Enterprises by implementing European projects and providing the framework for cross-border co-operation on multinational studies. JADE organises international congresses and meetings that facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience, intercultural understanding and promote the European idea.