Richard Archer is Chair of the CDT Management Committee and also Chair of the complementary EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine. An automation engineer by background, he was a founder of The Technology Partnership in Cambridge, developing the world’s first cell culture robots there in 1988. He was subsequently CEO of The Automation Partnership until retirement in 2004. He continues to work across many aspects of Regenerative Medicine including chairing stem cell start-up companies, being founding chair of the RegenMed Industry Group at BIA and consulting on business strategy in RM and stem cells for international corporations. He also sits on various external advisory bodies for EPSRC and The Technology Strategy Board, and is a Senior Industrial Fellow in the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge
