Ken is the Executive Director of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of Melbourne, and MD of UM Commercialisation Ltd. He studied Applied Chemistry before spending 20 years in global executive leadership roles for BP across the UK, the US and Melbourne. Ken previously served as Managing Director of specialist engineering and testing business hrl: technology group. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Bionics Institute, BioCurate and a Council Member of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce.