Ward Hills
Executive Chairman at Albion Innovations
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWard Hills is an accomplished technology and life-sciences executive with over a decade of senior leadership experience founding, scaling and exiting specialist start-ups across medical devices, cybersecurity and IoT. As Executive Chairman of The AbedGraham Group he advises governments and major healthcare organisations on cybersecurity and digital transformation, while mentoring entrepreneurs at Cambridge Judge Business School and serving on boards across the UK, US and Asia. He has a track record of commercialising complex hardware-software products—securing regulatory approvals, negotiating licensing deals and completing sales to AIM-listed companies. Beyond boardrooms, Ward builds maker communities (Makespace, Biomakespace) that bridge prototyping, research and industry, reflecting a hands-on inventor’s mindset alongside strategic governance. His background—PhD in analytical chemistry and early research roles in environmental and nuclear instrumentation—gives him deep technical credibility in translating R&D into market-ready solutions. Energetic and curious, he blends operational rigour with a passion for teaching, photography and aviation, often contributing practical engineering skills as well as strategic counsel.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, History, Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, History at Bradley UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Analytical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy, Analytical Chemistry at Washington State University
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Github Skills (25)
sec10
trading9
economics9
crypto9
finance9
quantitative-finance9
cryptocurrency9
python8
telescope8
ai8
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence8
algorithmic-trading7
desktop6
scaling4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
albioninnovate/PikonStepFocus
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
albioninnovate/triscope
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
The goal of this project Is to create a telescope design that will accommodate scaling from small mirror diameters say 100mm to larger diameters of 300 or more.
Contributions:235 commits, 46 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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