About Us
Innovating innovation
We are a team of educators, scientists, innovators, and techies with extensive experience working in innovation and change-making roles in both small and large organizations.
Mission Statement
To create the next generation of pioneers, trailblazers, innovators, and change-makers
Vision
To cultivate individuals who possess the knowledge, skills, strength of character, creativity, and drive to impact the world around them.
Purpose
To prepare individuals for success in a dynamic economy characterized by complexity, unpredictability, global connectedness, change, and opportunity.
our team
As technological innovation drives exponential growth in the sciences the physical, digital and biological worlds continue to merge impacting all disciplines, economies, and industries. As technology advances and our scientific capabilities grow, we will be within reach of solving some of the world’s most challenging global problems.
Dr Mark Weyers
Chief Innovation Officer
Mark has had a long and successful career implementing institutional innovation. He leads the innovation process within BCI by identifying strategies, business opportunities and new technologies for startups in order to develop new products and capabilities.
Dr James MacAskill
Chief Operating Officer
Jamie is a creative and innovative transition manager working in both private and public sectors. His wealth of strategic experience complements his entrepreneurial drive in transition or start-up roles. He is a founding member of the IIAD Global team.
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiR)
James Ling
Technology Strategist
Experienced senior manager with a multi-sector experience including blue-chip pharmaceuticals, retail, banking, legal, manufacturing and of course IT & technology. Successful entrepreneur with such notable achievements including the invention and licensing thereof of patents to major global giants in the search and browser arena and other markets. .
Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Operations Management, Management, and Contract Management. Strong professional with a MBA from Essex University.
Bartlomiej Mika
Technology Strategist
Bart founded Mika Software Corporation, a company which specializes in building and deploying web-based solutions for SMEs and enterprise clients. With an expertise in Python using the Django framework, he has built solutions for inventory management, eCommerce and data management, in industries such as financial services, entertainment, government, non-profit and more.
Juby Varughese
Software Engineer
Juby is a software engineer who is involved in a number of BCI projects. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from India, he is an entrepreneur and an innovator and is passionate about cutting-edge technologies. He has expertise in Python, Django rest Framework, Golang, React and TypeScript. He handles the majority of the IT infrastructure tasks for BCI’s websites and services and deploys and maintains the BCI web Applications.