Informatics Ventures Team

Andrew Mitchell has been deeply involved with entrepreneurship education and business-university collaboration since 1999 and has been at the centre of or has personally raised over £8 million of industry, government and higher-education “enterprise” funding in this time. He joined the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics commercialisation team in July 2007, coming to the university from a business incubator in Queensland, Australia. In Australia he introduced and developed entrepreneurship programmes for a diverse audience ranging from students to CEOs of high-tech start-ups. Prior to this Andrew worked for the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning where he designed, built and delivered educational programmes on behalf of the Cambridge-MIT Institute Limited (CMI).

Andrew’s corporate career includes British Telecommunications PLC, as a Modernising Government Specialist. He was the first ever “non R&D” secondee to BT’s Disruptive Innovation Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. At BT he was a founding member of a Web 1.0 “spin-up” delivering innovative solutions to Central Government, such as UK Online (now www.direct.gov.uk). This team grew from a founding group of 12 to 150 people in two years. He also worked for Andersen Consulting’s leading edge “SAP Energy” development team where he designed, coded and managed the company’s first corporate intranet. He also trained as an architectural technician at Covell Matthews Architects Limited in Aberdeen.