Laurence Ede
Chair at Ubiquigent Ltd
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurence Ede is an experienced life-sciences executive and investor who transformed Tocris Bioscience through an MBO and led its successful sale to a US buyer, then transitioned into board and advisory roles across biotech and chemistry-focused startups. Based in Bath, he chairs Qkine and serves as a long-standing NED at Ubiquigent while building a diverse portfolio and a property development business. His background blends hands-on commercial leadership, product development and quality systems with deep technical knowledge from a BSc in Chemistry and an MBA. Laurence mentors university spinouts and supports technology transfer, bringing practical playbooks for entrepreneurial teams navigating IP and M&A. Not obvious from his title, he has repeatedly moved between operational leadership and investor-advisor roles, enabling both commercial scale-ups and the digitisation of chemistry. He combines SME governance experience with a pragmatic interest in translating lab-scale innovations into reproducible, investable businesses.
8 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at University of ReadingMBA Business/Management, MBA Business/Management at University of Bath
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Github Skills (73)
csrf10
authentication10
spid10
auth10
solidjs10
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webapp10
jwt10
sveltekit10
stateless10
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nodejs10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LauSam09/collective
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Collective is an application for storing and sharing a shopping list for a household with live-syncing capabilities.
Contributions:15 releases, 9 PRs, 190 pushes in 4 years 6 months
collectivehouseholdreactshoppingsyncing
LauSam09/switch
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Switch is an application for managing house recipes and shopping. It is a progressive web application (PWA) application written using React, and is intended to function entirely offline if necessary.
Contributions:3 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
reacthouserecipesjavascriptweb-application
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