Dr Salman Malik

Dr. Salman Malik is a published scientist, an advisory board member and multi-award winning entrepreneur. He is currently the founder a consumer goods brand and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in HE and for early-stage ventures. He was previously trained as a Bioengineer and Academic Researcher having studied at University College London (UCL) and Yale University as an Applied Scientist although quickly transitioned into the world of business having run a Biotech start-up, building novel microparticles for controlled drug delivery (his first company; MicroSpray Technologies; a VC- and Angel-backed company). This transition was aided by a prestigious Enterprise Fellowship from The Royal Society of Edinburgh, allowing him to move from academia into the world of business and entrepreneurship. Following this, he decided to follow his passion as a product entrepreneur and build an angel-backed consumer brand. Salman is currently an Industry Advisory Board Member at University College London (UCL) where he offers Enterprise Education advice and builds programmes that promote enterprise amongst the student and academic population. Additionally, he is a Royal Society-sponsored Entrepreneur-in-Residence at University of the West of Scotland (UWS) London where he is leading The Greenhouse Incubator Programme in addition to mentoring and supporting early-stage founders/companies to spin-out and startup new ventures. This experience is complemented by achieving BEng (Hons), MSc, MRes, PhD and Master of Enterprise (MEnt) qualifications. The latter is a dual-taught and research business programme at the Alliance Manchester Business School and is recognised internationally in applied enterprise and entrepreneurship teaching.