Helsinki Metropolitan Entrepreneurship Academy
HELSINKI METROPOLITAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD (HMEA IAB)
Helsinki Metropolitan Entrepreneurship Academy is very proud to present the International Advisory Board. HMEA benefits greatly from the advice and guidance of its Advisory Board, via which HMEA can ensure that the events and programs meet the needs of an international entrepreneurship education.
Members of the HMEA International Advisory Board:
Chairman of the HMEA International Advisory Board
Prof. Alan Barrell DBA, FRSA, Entrepreneur in Residence
Alan Barrell has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology based industries and has become one of Cambridge's most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He was a founder shareholder in Library House Ltd, and is Entrepreneur in Residence at the Cambridge University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and Visiting Professor of Enterprise at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies.
He is also Distinguished Guest Professor at Xiamen University in China and Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex and a Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University. Recently appointed as International Fellow, Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. He has been Chairman of Health Enterprise East Ltd, an organisation seeking to exploit innovative inventions, processes and procedures in the National Health Service within the Eastern Region since it was set up five years ago. Following a scientific training, he worked in earlier phases of his career, around the world with Baxter Healthcare and was its Chief Executive for six years.
Subsequently, he joined Domino Printing Sciences as Managing Director. Domino became a public company and now has a market capitalization of more than half a billion Euros. Following this, after six years, he joined Willett International, an industrial electronics company, and was its CEO, building its international business into a major success. He was instrumental in launching the Cambridge Gateway Fund to support early stage technology businesses in the region and became its Managing Partner, and has been involved with a number of charities including the Papworth Trust, the Royal Society of Arts, the Centre for Tomorrow's Company and The Prince's Trust. He is International Advisor to Youth Business China
He has also chaired the Cambridge Enterprise Conference and works closely with a number of Science Parks and Innovation Centres in Cambridge, elsewhere in the UK and overseas. He received The Queen's Award for Enterprise promotion in 2006.
Most recently, Alan has become Chairman of Eagle Genomics Ltd, and Pneumacare Ltd., and a Director of Probe Scientific Ltd. All are entrepreneurial early stage Life Science Companies. He is a Director of two Chinese Companies – Golden Bough Intellectual property Company and Oriental Investments Ltd.
Alan is a member of Cambridge Angels and Sophia Business Angels (France) and advises numerous early stage companies internationally.
He is also Distinguished Guest Professor at Xiamen University in China and Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex and a Fellow of Anglia Ruskin University. Recently appointed as International Fellow, Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. He has been Chairman of Health Enterprise East Ltd, an organisation seeking to exploit innovative inventions, processes and procedures in the National Health Service within the Eastern Region since it was set up five years ago. Following a scientific training, he worked in earlier phases of his career, around the world with Baxter Healthcare and was its Chief Executive for six years.
Subsequently, he joined Domino Printing Sciences as Managing Director. Domino became a public company and now has a market capitalization of more than half a billion Euros. Following this, after six years, he joined Willett International, an industrial electronics company, and was its CEO, building its international business into a major success. He was instrumental in launching the Cambridge Gateway Fund to support early stage technology businesses in the region and became its Managing Partner, and has been involved with a number of charities including the Papworth Trust, the Royal Society of Arts, the Centre for Tomorrow's Company and The Prince's Trust. He is International Advisor to Youth Business China
He has also chaired the Cambridge Enterprise Conference and works closely with a number of Science Parks and Innovation Centres in Cambridge, elsewhere in the UK and overseas. He received The Queen's Award for Enterprise promotion in 2006.
Most recently, Alan has become Chairman of Eagle Genomics Ltd, and Pneumacare Ltd., and a Director of Probe Scientific Ltd. All are entrepreneurial early stage Life Science Companies. He is a Director of two Chinese Companies – Golden Bough Intellectual property Company and Oriental Investments Ltd.
Alan is a member of Cambridge Angels and Sophia Business Angels (France) and advises numerous early stage companies internationally.
"I am very pleased to be acting and working as an Advisor to Helsinki Metropolitan Entrepreneurship Academy. Members of the International Advisory Board, who all have extensive knowledge in global entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education, believe this new initiative can have a very significant positive impact on approaches not only to education, but to knowledge sharing and the enrichment of experience through evolving cultural understanding between peoples and communities around entrepreneurship in many parts of our world.
It seems most appropriate, that as technology enables the removal of distance between nations and people, that education and business too, take advantage of our enhanced abilities to communicate and work together. We feel this is a most important development which is deserving of broad international support. I was inspired by the large number of students who have attended HMEA's activities and was encouraged by the obvious passion for Entrepreneurship and Excellence I found amongstthe many students I met. It is deeply satisfying to know that "The Spirit of Entreprise" is safe in the hands of the Next Generation of Finnish Entrepreneurs."
– Prof. Alan Barrell DBA, FRSA, Chairman of HMEA's International Advisory Board.