Accelerate Cambridge coaches

Tony Kypreos is an entrepreneur, corporate innovator, and investor with 30 years’ leadership experience and an authority on entrepreneurship, innovation corporate venturing, M&A and developing high performing teams. His focus is on interdisciplinary innovation for health, social and environmental challenges.

He is currently on the Advisory Council and a Venture Partner for the world’s leading UN Sustainable Development Goals innovation accelerator, Accelerate2030 in Geneva, operating in 33 countries in partnership with the UNDP, Impact Hub, and Pfizer. As an entrepreneur in residence with the UK Programme, he scouts, selects, and mentors high Government’s Global Entrepreneur potential technology scale-up ventures in healthcare and sustainability and is a partner at VC Reload Ventures focused on MedTech and ClimateTech.

As an entrepreneur he was a co-founder of Springboard Accelerator (exit TechStars), Founder of Healthtech venture Dupl (exit Optima Health) and in the senior leadership team for the $800m Nasdaq IPO of agency.com. He is an active investor and board advisor with several M&A exits including Oracle, Piksel, Nokia, Opentext and AML RightSource. In corporate innovation he is a former member of the Executive Board of T-Mobile International & Deutsche Telekom’s corporate VC, T-Venture, he was Group Managing Director for Bauer Digital for the post-merger integration of EMAP. He also has international leadership experience in consumer brands at Nestlé and Diageo.

Emily joined Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and Cambridge University Health Partners as the Business Engagement and Clinical Innovation Lead in April 2022.
Emily’s role is to translate research and innovation into the NHS. Prior to this, Emily worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge in organic chemistry and machine learning. She previously obtained a Master’s from the University of York and a PhD from the University of Leeds. Emily has also held a European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) fellowship and conducted research into rare forms of cancer at pharmaceutical charity LifeArc.

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Sam Ofori is a mentor and consultant specialising in venture creation, fundraising and sustainability. He works with recent graduates, academics and business schools to develop and deliver global brands and programmes. Sam is a mentor on Accelerate Cambridge, and a business supervisor on the EnterpriseTECH programme, both at Cambridge Judge Business School. He was also invited to mentor on the CRoSS programme at Cambridge Enterprise earlier in 2023. Sam also mentors at LSE Generate, and on the MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He is a mentor-in-residence on the MSc Entrepreneurship at Bayes Business School, and a principal mentor at UCL Hatchery, University College London. He has previously mentored on incubator programmes at Queen Mary University of London and at City, University of London. Sam has been invited to sit on judging panels at Bayes Business School and Queen Mary. His recent and current assignments include developing knowledge exchange and business engagement platforms at Brunel University London, consulting on the startup and growth of a global venture capital services company, consulting on commercialising a women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment research project, and the re-structuring of the Museum of Entrepreneurship, a groundbreaking spinout at Bayes Business School. Sam holds a Master of Laws degree in Venture Capital.