TAJ MATTU, PHD

Managing Director

Dr. Taj S. Mattu is a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the Bristol University. He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society and an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.  Having led license deals on technologies a variety of fields he is acutely aware of the specific challenges of taking early stage technology through the commercialization process via industrial engagement.

Having started his commercialization career at the University of Oxford, Taj then moved to UK Ministry of Defense’s research facility at Porton Down (the Defense Science & Technology Laboratory. He was initially responsible for the full review of the intellectual property portfolio and the branding and marketing collateral. This role evolved into reviewing best practice in the areas of rewards to investors, inventor engagement and IP commercialization and then implementing those outputs. Dr. Mattu also commercialized intellectual property arising from the Biomedical and Detection Departments, and the creation and administration of the Ploughshare Innovation Fund whose gap finance supported technology development through to either spin-out or license deals.

In 2011 Dr. Mattu set up the UK franchise of Foresight Science & Technology Inc. before becoming President in the USA. He worked with Universities and a number of SMEs to further their commercialization objectives. At Foresight Dr. Mattu contributed to the market valuation of technologies for the US National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, the Singapore National Medical Research Council, along with countless US Universities.

Dr. Mattu was the principle legal negotiator for an investment of £8.9m from a blue-chip investor in London Recycling & Renewable Energy Limited. He is currently Technical & Commercial Director, Thermachange Limited a company developing waste processing technology for the nuclear industry.