Fostering Entrepreneurship To Deliver Change with Kelsey Lynn Skinner

Today's guest is Kelsey Lynn Skinner, Partner @ IP Group Plc  (@Kelsey_innovate)Kelsey Lynn Skinner has been a partner at IP Group plc since 2018. Prior to joining IP Group she had acted as a Board Director in a number of venture, tech and angel funds. She spent a decade in Silicon Valley as a venture investor for early-stage and growth technology companies.Kelsey is a graduate of Stanford University/School of Business Graduate. Kelsey also has a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering & Thermodynamics from Stanford University, where she played fullback for the National Champions rugby team. She is honoured by recent awards including "Investment Woman of the Year" from Investment Week and selected as Top 5 "Best Board Director for a Private Company" from the UK Sunday Times.Kelsey works at IP IP Group Plc is a leading investment manager specialising in commercialising intellectual property by evolving great ideas, mainly from its partner universities, into world-changing businesses. IP Group Plc was founded in 2001 and has also launched Offices in the US, Australia and New Zealand. IP Group has a strong track record of success and its portfolio comprises holdings in approximately 80 early-stage to mature businesses across three main sectors -- Life Sciences, Technology, and Cleantech. The Company is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the code IPO FTSE 250 index with market capitalisation exceeding £1B and Turnover of £1.7B.IP Group plc is evolving great ideas into world-changing businesses. It addresses some of the world’s most pressing challenges through the companies it backs including @nanopore @FLFusion @CeresPower The Group provides access to business building expertise, capital, networks, recruitment and business support. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so.Enjoy the show!You can find us on; twitter @Jwombwellpovey or @mhmiddletoninstagram @venturingintosustainability and @_theconsciousleaderemail at [email protected], where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded February 8th, 2021In today’s episode we cover:The difference between the Cleantech 1.0 of the 2000’s and the 2.0 wave of the 2020’sHow venture capital investors think about IP heavy, and asset heavy investmentsHow boards and NEDs can work with founders to support and challenge themHow diversity helps us to bring more diverse thinking and views to the table, and deliver more empathic impactsSome of the companies Kelsey has invested in, including AqdotLinks to topics discussed in this episode:AQDotIP Group