Govind Pindoria is Director of Startups and Investments at Imperial College London and Executive Director of Imperial College Innovations Ltd (ICIL). His team is responsible for all aspects of the development and funding of new staff startups from Imperial, managing the growing startup portfolio and the Imperial College Enterprise Fund (an EIS fund established with Parkwalk Advisors). Prior to ICIL he was Executive Director at Imperial Innovations Ltd and led the formation of over 50 companies, serving on the boards of many and leading the sale of eight Imperial start-ups to companies like Google, Evonik and Oxford University Press. Prior to Innovations, Govind was the European Director of Technology for a US semiconductor equipment company (Novellus Systems) where he led a team based around Europe responsible for the introduction of new technology. In his early career Govind was a scientist at the Cavendish labs in Cambridge University and in Japan. Govind has a BSc in Chemical Physics from University of Sussex, PhD in Semiconductor Physics from University of Warwick and an MBA from Imperial College business school.