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University of Manchester Innovation Factory Limited
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Professor Ashley William BlomDirector · since 2025
- Professor Anthony John HoldenDirector · since 2025
- Dr Catherine Emily HeadleyDirector · since 2024
- Paula DhootDirector · since 2024
- Carol ProkopyszynDirector · since 2022
- Simon Charles ThorpeDirector · since 2020
- Joanne KelleyDirector · since 2018
- Dr Luke HakesDirector · since 2017
Previous officers 28
- Professor Richard Anthony Lewis Jones 2025-2025 View profile
- Professor Graham Michael Lord 2023-2024 View profile
- James Andrew Wilkinson 2020-2025 View profile
- Stephen Benedict Dauncey 2018-2022 View profile
- Jason Stockwood 2018-2019 View profile
- Professor Martin Schroder 2016-2023 View profile
- Scott Jonathan Fletcher 2013-2015 View profile
- Professor Luke Gregory Georghiou 2011-2025 View profile
- Professor Colin Gareth Bailey 2011-2016 View profile
- Stephen Richard Mole 2010-2016 View profile
- Dr Krishnamurthy Rajagopal 2010-2016 View profile
- Robin David Border 2010-2010 View profile
- Keith Lloyd 2007-2013 View profile
- Bryan Harvey Bodek 2007-2016 View profile
- Marianne Mckenzie-Green 2007-2009 View profile
- Professor Richard Alan North 2006-2010 View profile
- Gillian Easson 2004-2007 View profile
- Anil Kumar Ruia 2004-2007 View profile
- Geoffrey Hope Terry 2004-2006 View profile
- Peter Sanderson 2004-2010 View profile
- Alan Clarke 2004-2014 View profile
- Professor David Gordon 2004-2006 View profile
- Professor Roderick Wilson Coombs 2004-2014 View profile
- Clive Gary Rowland 2004-2019 View profile
- Jane Nicola Shelton 2007-2024 View profile
- Claire Jane Faulkner 2005-2019 View profile
- Ian Walter Jackson 2004-2007 View profile
- Heather Anne Rosling 2004-2005 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- Incorporated
- 12/07/2004
Financials
- Total assets
- £1,630,602
- Cash
- £2,271,046
- Employees
- 43
- Turnover
- £6,255,289
- Profit/loss
- £103,473
Filed as Small company accounts.
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-07-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
8 directors on the board
- Dr Luke Hakes Director · appointed 2017
- Paula Dhoot Director · appointed 2024
- Dr Catherine Emily Headley Director · appointed 2024
- Simon Charles Thorpe Director · appointed 2020
- Joanne Kelley Director · appointed 2018
- Professor Ashley William Blom Director · appointed 2025
- Carol Prokopyszyn Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Anthony John Holden Director · appointed 2025
Directors past 6 years
- Dr Luke Hakes Director · appointed 2017
- Simon Charles Thorpe Director · appointed 2020
- Joanne Kelley Director · appointed 2018
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (3)
- Paula Dhoot Director · appointed 2024
- Dr Catherine Emily Headley Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Ashley William Blom Director · appointed 2025
Portfolio (5)
- Dr Luke Hakes Director · appointed 2017
- Simon Charles Thorpe Director · appointed 2020
- Joanne Kelley Director · appointed 2018
- Carol Prokopyszyn Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Anthony John Holden Director · appointed 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 05177409
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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