Neil Thomas is Partner at Ventac Partners and has held executive roles since 2012. He was previously Director of Business Development & IP at Genetrix in Madrid and Director of IP & Technology at Roche spinout bioXell in Milan. Since 2012, he has been Visiting Lecturer on “Patenting and Commercialization of Biotech and Medtech Inventions” at NTNU, Norway. He was previously, Adjunct Professor of IP in the Life Sciences Industry at IE Business School, Madrid (2010-2015) and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK (MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise, 2013-15).