Sectors & roles
Six sectors. One kind of scarcity.
Technology is what connects these sectors, but the roles are rarely only technical. General management, commercial, operational, supply chain and financial leadership, as well as regulation and risk, all sit on the same path. What they share is that the outcome rests with a small number of people who are credible in the relevant technology space and sound in judgement about the business and its people.
01High tech semiconductors & complex systems
Equipment, metrology, photonics and the supply networks that make precision possible.
- Managing Director / CEO
- Chief Technology Officer
- R&D and engineering
- Operations & supply chain
- Commercial leadership
- CFO
02Industrial tech advanced manufacturing
The people who build the organisation around the technology without slowing it down.
- Managing Director / CEO
- Chief Operating Officer
- Plant & site leadership
- Supply chain & procurement
- Engineering & automation
- CFO
03Clean tech renewable energy & the transition
The step from demonstrated technology to industrial production, where most founding teams break.
- Scale-up CEO / COO
- Industrialisation leadership
- Chief Commercial Officer
- Regulatory & public affairs
- Finance leadership
- Supervisory board
04Med tech life sciences & diagnostics
Long development cycles under regulatory scrutiny, where scientific credibility and commercial discipline have to coexist.
- General management
- R&D and clinical leadership
- Regulatory & quality
- Manufacturing & operations
- Commercial leadership
- Business development
05Fin tech wholesale banking, private equity & venture capital
Technology at industrial scale is a financing problem as much as an engineering one.
- Debt markets & capital structuring
- Coverage & origination
- Financial institutions groups
- Credit & risk leadership
- Trade credit & insurance
- Private equity & venture capital
06Defence tech dual-use & secure systems
Sensing, autonomy and secure systems, where clearance and long procurement cycles narrow the field further.
- General management
- Programme leadership
- Systems & software engineering
- Government & institutional sales
- Compliance & export control
- Supply chain