Double boost for Anglia Innovation Partnership

The Board comprises senior leaders from each of Norwich Research Park’s six Partners plus the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the John Innes Foundation.

Burroughs is an expert in ‘place creation’. Having worked in the commercial real estate sector for many years with Cushman & Wakefield and Bidwells, in 2009 he set up Creative Places – a specialist property advisory business focussed on the science park sector – as a spin-out from Bidwells.

Mark Clement is a director at Grant Thornton, leading its Transaction Advisory Services business in Cambridge and Milton Keynes. He has more than 40 years’ experience in finance, having worked for Coopers & Lybrand, Grant Thornton and the RPC Group before returning to Grant Thornton in 2008.

He also acts as non-executive director for the Silverstone Technology Cluster – a position he has held since its formation in 2018.

Clement has extensive experience of working with growing and dynamic businesses. Throughout his career he has worked on many merger and acquisition transactions, enjoyed a 12-month secondment to Santander and most recently acted as reporting accountant on the successful flotation of Cambridge microcomputer star Raspberry Pi on the London Stock Exchange.

Roz Bird, CEO of Anglia Innovation Partnership, said: “With the recent announcements of our new real estate investment partnership with Vengrove and now with the availability of funding from Greensphere Capital, targeted at our start-up and spin-out companies, the future is looking very positive for the Norwich Research Park campus.

“We continue to attract and retain high-growth businesses and have nurtured and grown our entrepreneur community. We can now be confident about our next phase of growth and with Mark and Jonathan’s support we will continue to maximise the impact of publicly funded research.”