Professor Sam Medhat is the founding Chief Executive of Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange, the UK professional body for innovators and a leading provider of SciTech innovation and growth services to business, education and government. He is also the Founder of the STEM Foundation – an educational charity that has supported some 250 colleges in the UK and impacted positively the lives of over 700,000 students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Professor Medhat is a member of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. He is also a member of the BSI/ISO technical standards committee for Innovation, Artificial Intelligence and Defence Standardisation. He is a Visiting Professor to the University of Westmister, and a former Visiting Professor to the University of Suffolk and Plymouth's University of St Mark and St John. He held positions as Governor and Trustee in many colleges in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. He also served as a member of the Business and Community Advisory Board of the Joint Academic Information Systems Committee (JISC); a member of SEPnet (the South East of England Physics Network of universities); member of the HEFCE Board's committee on Quality Assessment in Learning and Teaching; a member of the Foundation Degree Forward Board, a member of the University of Bristol’s Court; and an adviser to the European Parliament.
Professor Medhat led accreditation and certification programmes in many multinational, public and educational organisations such as Abellio, BAE Systems, MBDA, Raytheon, Thales, EDF Energy, Magnox, Horizon Nuclear and Panasonic, UK Ministry of Defence innovation directorate, Front Line Command innovation hubs and accelerators, London South Bank University, Birmingham City University, Plymouth University, City of Glasgow College, South West College and many others.
Professor Medhat held a number of senior academic and industrial positions nationally and internationally including Director of the Engineering and Technology Board, founding Principal of Dubai Polytechnic (now Dubai University), Head of University Office of Research and Head of School of Electronics at Bournemouth University, Vice President of Future media PLC - a NASDAQ company, CEO/NED of a number of technology start-ups. Professor Medhat has been responsible for establishing 9 business start-ups.
Professor Medhat has published widely and holds a number of invention patents. He also held two professorial chairs: the IBM Professor of Concurrent Engineering and the Intergraph Professor of Electronic Design Automation. His PhD is in microelectronics and was sponsored by Siemens Defence Systems. Prof Medhat is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Directors, a Fellow of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Responsible Leaders.
