Lucy Paine

About

Lucy connects founders, researchers, businesses and universities, and designs the programmes that help them move ideas forward.

She’s an innovation and enterprise specialist with 20 years’ experience working with founders, universities, businesses, researchers and innovation organisations. She’s a Senior Advisor to the Always Possible board and an investor in the business.

On our projects she brings founder mentoring, workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement and programme design. She designs practical programmes on commercialisation, technology adoption, founder confidence and peer learning, and runs workshops, business review panels and peer groups. Her work covers tech and digital, creative industries, health ventures, academic commercialisation and female founders.

Lucy is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Bath’s SETsquared Innovation Centre, where she co-designed and co-led the Smart Scale growth programme, and works in ecosystem development for techSPARK across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire. She curates and hosts Bath Digital Festival, which brings more than 2,000 people together each May, and has mentored founders through NatWest’s accelerator programmes for a decade.

She’s a natural connector, at her best bringing together people who didn’t know they were trying to solve the same problem.

EXPERTISE: Founder mentoring and support · Programme design and facilitation · Academic commercialisation · Technology adoption · Ecosystem and community building

ROLES: Senior Advisor, Always Possible · Entrepreneur in Residence, SETsquared Bath Innovation Centre · Ecosystem Development, techSPARK · Business Mentor, NatWest and University of Bristol