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Shailendra Vyakarnam

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.