Ian Alexander Graham

Amaethon Ltd. commercializes plant and microbial science research. It audits, assesses, and protects Centre for Novel Agricultural Products' (CNAP) intellectual property and utilizes the Centre's research by developing relationships with industry and through the formation of spinouts. The firm is proactive in evaluating research progress in CNAP and identifying new intellectual property through regular IP surgeries with CNAP researchers. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in York, the United Kingdom.

John Innes Centre Ltd. provides research services in plant science and microbiology. It carries out fundamental research to train scientists and make their findings available to society. The scientific research at the center makes use of a range of disciplines in the biological and chemical sciences, including cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, computational and mathematical biology. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Norwich, the United Kingdom.