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Yanina Aubrey-Gimenez

Director of Innovation Services

Yanina is an experienced board-level leader and NED with extensive experience in business strategy, commercial direction, research-led innovation, and multi-partner initiatives. She has led projects in business incubation, industry-academia R&D, sustainability, and strategy consulting for blue-chip companies. Most recently, she headed up business, enterprise and innovation at University of Hertfordshire and chaired the Healthcare Technologies Capability Connector | Uni of Herts), a three-way Healthtech research and innovation partnership between University of Hertfordshire, Imperial College London and Cranfield University.

Her background includes management consultancy in net zero and sustainability markets, creative industries and technology, and she has founded, grown and successfully exited a luxury ethical fashion business. Yanina also brings valuable international experience, having lived and worked in Taiwan, Canada, and Latin America. She has been a lecturer and speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).