Sandy McKinnon   Partner

Sandy has over 18 years experience in commercialising technology innovations, the last 7 of these as a partner with Pentech.

Prior to Pentech, he was Director of Knowledge Transfer & Technology and Research Services at Heriot-Watt University where he helped in mentoring and fund raising of twelve spin-out companies.

Prior to this, he was a freelance technical and marketing consultant, and with Scientific Generics in Cambridge he helped develop and ran their Advance Technology Group. Experienced in protecting and licensing his and his groups’ own IP, Sandy has also provided deep technical and market due-diligence services in many sectors for a variety of blue-chip companies and VCs.

Sandy had a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University, working for 6 years in Nanotechnology with many of the pioneers in the field - his Ph.D. is for work on Amorphous Semiconductors and he has a B.Sc.(first) in Physics from the University of Dundee.

He is currently on the Boards of Rapid Mobile, and Metaforic.

Themes of Interest

Internet “platforms”, Web 2.0, casual gaming, behavioural modelling, open-source, security, mobile platforms, and advertising

Contact

Sandy McKinnon

sandy@pentechvc.com