Profile Sharon Todd, Chief Executive Officer

Sharon Todd joined SCI as Chief Executive Officer in 2015. Sharon is an experienced senior executive with over 35 years in the science-based industries, where she ran global businesses and managed mergers and acquisition teams focused on buying up new technologies to deploy globally.

She ran her own consultancy for 8 years focusing on the strategic repositioning of businesses and supporting technology start ups to commercialise technologies before joining SCI. She is an experienced board member having held a number of board and non-executive roles within industry, trade associations and universities. After studying chemistry at Southampton University, she joined the industry after being introduced to her future employer at an SCI recruitment event.

SCI, established in 1881, has a charitable purpose to accelerate science out of the laboratory into industry, for the benefit of society. SCI convenes communities across industry and academia to develop new technologies, provides thought leadership on industrial policy, and supports the next generation of scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs.

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