Ian Collingwood

Ian has been helping startup founders succeed since 2010. He has built, advised and coached hundreds of new ventures across sectors from healthcare, manufacturing and agriculture, to retail, travel, food, and eCommerce.

With a background in user experience and service design, Ian was CEO of Amberlight, one of the UK's leading UX consultancies before moving to Barcelona and becoming Program Director of the Startupbootcamp Data and IoT program. Over the intervening years he has coached hundreds of founders for Seedcamp, Rockstart, Imperial Innovations, IQS TechFactory and Wayra along with most leading European accelerators.

Ian has a particular interest in applying deep-tech innovation for sustainability and zero-carbon energy transition. He helps engineers on the EIT InnoEnergy program apply Lean Startup and Design Thinking to their new ventures and he leads the Technology for Social Innovation program at ESADE (part of the EU Attract Academy in collaboration with CERN, Aalto University and TU Delft).

In his spare time he likes making fermented and smoked foods and to play around with 3D printers and other maker technology. He is co-founder of Barcelona's MadeBCN Makerspace and co-producer of Barcelona MiniMakerFaire.

Education

• Management Science & Marketing Lancaster University (1988 — 1991)
• CELTA International House (2002 — 2002)

Companies

• Academic Lead - Technology for Social Innovation (TeSI) Spain ATTRACT EU (2021)
• Program Director - Customer Development & Entrepreneurship for Commercialisation Fund Enterprise Ireland (2019)
• Academic Collaborator - CBI Design Thinking CERN (2017)
• Program Specialist - Entrepreneurship and Innovation EIT InnoEnergy (2015)
• Associate Professor MBA Program - Innovation & Design Thinking ESADE Business & Law School (2013)
• Principal UXdna (2010)
• Director Of Content - TeSI Spain ATTRACT EU (2019 — 2021)
• Online Course Developer LCI Barcelona (2018 — 2019)
• Program Development - Sant Feliu Maker League SUEZ (2017 — 2018)