Ann Kramer has over 20 years international general management and business development experience with blue chip and SME companies in bioscience, sustainability and agribusiness.

Business strategy, analysis and planning
* Wrote fund-raising business plan for Microbial Solutions Ltd (RFL)
* Wrote third round business plan that raised £1.5 m (Oxitec)
* Rationalised post-merger food biotechnology project portfolio (SYT)
* Analysed potential for novel GM enzymes in biofuel and feed (SYT)
* Evolved strategy to focus on public health and to enter Brazil (Oxitec)

Transactions led
* Sponsored research contract with multinational (Oxitec)
* Acquisition of herbicide-tolerant technology from Bayer (SYT)
* Divestment of cotton seed company (SYT)
* R&D collaboration with major branded food company (ZPS)
* US federal government negotiations (Oxitec)

Business Development
* Opened market development for GM mosquitoes in Brazil, USA, Panama, Singapore, other (Oxitec)
* Set up and managed food co. alliances to develop novel products (SYT)
* Successful grant applications/ extensions to Wellcome Foundation, Gates Foundation, TSB, EU (Oxitec, Immunocore)

CV
Chief Operating Officer at Immunocore Ltd. (2010-11)
Head of Business Development at Oxitec Ltd. (2006-10)
Manager in M&A group at Syngenta AG. (2002-06)
Business Manager of Food Biotechnology at Zeneca/Syngenta (1996-2001)
Tech sales, strategic analyst, marketing support, field research (1988-95)