Tom Hockaday

Tom Hockaday has thirty years experience in the university technology transfer sector, working in the UK and around the world. These days Tom is an independent technology transfer and innovation consultant with his business Technology Transfer Innovation. His book on ‘University Technology Transfer – What it Is and How To Do It’ is his first book. Tom was born in Oxford a few decades ago, and currently lives in the countryside a few miles north of Oxford.

Tom is currently working on a number of assignments with clients across the UK, Europe, Mexico and South Africa. These include advising universities on Technology Transfer, Innovation and Proof-of-Concept Funds, and advising a number of Seed Investment Funds. Tom is a member of the Investment Committee of the €32M BeAble Fund in Madrid, the €40M Progress Tech Transfer Fund in Milan, and Chair of the Investment Committee of the SA SME University Technology Fund in South Africa. Tom is on the EIT Health Innovation Project panel, the CaixaImpulse Consolidate panel, and is an honorary member of NetVal, the Italian University technology transfer network.

Tom was the CEO of Oxford University Innovation Ltd, the University of Oxford’s Technology Transfer company from 2006 to March 2016 (formerly named Isis innovation Ltd). Whilst at Oxford University, Tom oversaw the expansion of Oxford University Innovation into one of the world’s leading university technology commercialisation organisations with its activities greatly contributing to the substantial impact of the University of Oxford around the world. He led the international expansion of OUI including establishing offices in Hong Kong, and a number of joint ventures in China. Before joining Oxford in 2000, Tom worked in Technology Transfer roles at the University of Bristol and University College London.