Dr Juno McKee

Dr Juno McKee
Director of Ventures & Company Secretary
+44 (0 )1223 342208/ +44 (0) 7872 543379

As Director of NIAB Ventures Juno provides leadership for NIAB's growth and development and engages in a broad range of innovation, commercial and commercialisation activities across crops with different teams and industry partners. Juno is responsible for developing and maintaining income streams based on NIAB's expertise and IP and supports the organisation in both internal and external facing programmes associated with market analysis, strategy development, product commercialisation as well as mergers, acquisitions and divestments. As Company Secretary Juno is involved in many facets of company wide business administration.

Juno has a first degree in plant biology and a PhD from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (ecological genetics of natural plant populations) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Open University Business School and is a 2003 Nuffield Farming Scholar (UK wheat breeding and supply chains).