Entrepreneurship Prize

Jonathan has been a Sector Portfolio Manager at Ninety One Asset Management since 2006; previously at Citigroup, he has over 20 years experience in asset management. Prior to that, he led European Wireless research at JPMorgan having worked in advisory roles in the telecommunications sector. Jonathan has also been an angel investor for many years, but more recently he has focussed his efforts on companies delivering social impact and is a founding member of the Clearly Social Angels Network, the UK’s largest impact investor group. In addition he is a member of the Admissions Panel of the Social Stock Exchange. Furthermore, Jonathan is a trustee of the Irene Taylor Trust, which promotes music in prisons to break the cycle of reoffending and a member of the Finance Committee of the Wates Foundation. He has an M.P.A from Princeton University where he was a Fellow at the School of Politics and International Affairs.

Trained as a molecular geneticist and Genetic Counselor, Gemma was an early employee of the Stanford spinout company Personalis, where she developed a clinical genomic sequencing test for the diagnosis of individuals with rare disease. Since moving back to the UK, Gemma has focused on healthcare professional education in genomics; she is the Course Director for the Masters programme in Genomic Medicine at the University and the Education & Training Lead for the East Midlands and East of England Genomic Laboratory Hub. Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Rare Disease Network, Gemma is passionate about the potential of genomics to improve healthcare, and works creatively to facilitate the mainstreaming of genomics within the NHS.

Megan Donaldson is an Associate Professor of International Law at UCL, and was formerly a Junior Research Fellow in History of International Law at King's College. Her research focuses on structures of governance, diplomacy and the international legal order.

An Honorary Fellow of King's, Hermann is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has been described as a "grandee of the British computing industry". He has founded a number of companies including Acorn Computers (and a spin-out company ARM Holdings), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Ltd. In 1997 he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners, an investment firm. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and an Honorary Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is also Director of the European Innovation Council (EIC). In 2016, Hermann was awarded a KBE, having already been awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001 for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector. He has an MA in Physics from Vienna University, with his PhD in Physics from Cambridge. In addition, Hermann holds honorary degrees from several institutions.

Lorraine Headen has served as the College's Development Director since 2016.

Lorraine has overseen the transformative King’s Campaign, enabling the College to encourage and support the brightest students from all backgrounds, and to deliver more world-class teaching and research.  

Fellow Benefactor of King’s. Stuart has been a business leader in the consumer product, retail and service industries. He was appointed CBE for services to the china industry, is an honorary DLitt of Keele University, has an LLB from the Open University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Wharton, USA. His public roles have included chairmanship of the British Ceramic Confederation and the West Midlands Development Agency, and membership of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission. He was awarded the 2020 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation and is the author of ‘Xu Zhimo in Cambridge - life and poetry’, available from the College shop, and is the author of three books on the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, who studied at King’s in 1921-22.

Malcolm read Engineering at King’s and subsequently practiced as an engineer applying early computational modelling techniques to internal combustion engines (Ricardo) and telecoms networks (STC). Subsequently he took an MBA at London Business School and switched into the then early and fast developing management consulting industry, joining EY as one of their early consultants.   He helped build EY becoming a partner, before moving on to co-found and build a second consulting business.  Next, he moved with part of his team to the newly formed Alvarez & Marsal (Europe), starting their non-distressed transformation business.  At A&M, Malcolm built first their early Private Equity and then their Corporate business to become major advisory practices, based on providing tough turnaround and transformation support to major and mid-sized businesses across Europe.  

Rediscovering King’s some 10 years ago, Malcolm first helped lead a small group from his matriculation year to set up the 1977 King’s Access Support Scheme to help promising A-Level students from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their required grades for entry.  He then went on to co-found, together with two King’s fellows, the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab.  He currently chairs the E-Lab’s Senior Advisory Board, and is a King’s Fellow Benefactor.

A keen motorcyclist, Malcolm is also a director of a specialist engineering business making parts to maintain the Vincent ‘Black Shadow’, the iconic motorcycle designed by King’s engineer Phil Vincent (KC 1926).

Managing partner of Charles Street Securities Europe LLP, a private investment firm which he founded in 1984. The firm manages the CSS Alpha Fund, a venture debt fund. He has had an extensive career in investment banking and private equity investing and at the beginning of his career Gerard was employed by the Chase Manhattan Bank from 1973 to 1983 in the bank's international, institutional and investment banking departments.

Research

Kamiar Mohaddes is an expert in the macroeconomics of climate change and sustainability at Cambridge University, where he is the Co-Director of the climaTRACES Lab, a new interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Cambridge focusing on climate, nature, and sustainability. He is also the Deputy Director of the Cambridge Executive MBA programme and Fellow in Economics at King’s College, Cambridge, where he co-founded and directs the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab.

In addition to climate change and sustainability, Kamiar's research covers energy economics, economics of the Middle East, and applied macroeconomics more broadly. He is among the top 1% authors globally in IDEAS/RePEc (based on last 10 years of publications). His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge) as well as in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in major international news outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Kamiar’s work has been cited extensively by policymakers, including by more than 25 members of the United States Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, and the White House.

Kamiar has worked extensively on issues related to climate change and sustainability with both the public (including the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, IDB) and the private sector (BCG, BNP Paribas, KPMG and many others). He is a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and has previously served as a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada. He has worked closely with colleagues at these institutions to, for instance, develop tools to help examine and disentangle the size and speed of the transmission of different global, regional, and national macroeconomic shocks. 

Kamiar obtained his PhD in economics from Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda GatesScholar.

You can find Kamiar on Twitter and LinkedIn. His publications are available on Google Scholar.

Research: Research interests focus on the intersection between the Bloomsbury Group and the Ballets Russes, as well as the pedagogy of doctoral supervision, and decolonized teaching practices in History of Art. 

King’s Fellow Commoner. After graduating Adrian joined a startup developing high performance networking at the dawn of the age of networked computers. He then went on to co-found three further tech startups, all of which were successful. The last of these was Acano Ltd, acquired by Cisco in late 2015. Now he works as a Business Angel and serves on the boards of several tech startups either as a Director or Advisor.

Dr Gillian Tett became the 45th Provost of King's in October 2023, succeeding Professor Michael Proctor.

She studied anthropology at Clare College before becoming a journalist, editor and columnist in a career spanning 30 years at the Financial Times. She remains a member of the FT Editorial Board.

Shai has been an enterprise educator and mentor for 30 years. He was founding director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Judge Business School. He has been a pioneer in developing education for entrepreneurship and many of his courses and methods are extensively copied and developed by Universities and institutions around the world. He continues to mentor entrepreneurs and small teams of new ventures, is passionate about getting science and technology  based ventures that make an impact to succeed.  Currently Shai is engaged in the Cambridge History of Innovation Project at the University Library.  He is also co-founder and CEO of a new venture TerraWaste where the team is working towards recycling hard to recycle waste plastics using continuous flow thermochemical processes. Meanwhile he continues his affiliation as Visiting Professor at Cranfield University Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship.