Kezia Williamson is Head of Place at Innovate UK KTN where she leads on the development of this strategic priority for the organisation. Kezia has worked in innovation commercialisation for 15 years, both within and across sectors. She has significant experience of developing programmes to enable companies to innovate. Specialising in business innovation and development through access to funding, she has helped companies and consortia across the UK to secure innovation funding, including early-stage equity investment. Kezia has also run innovation funding programmes, managed large, international, collaborative research projects, established a data-driven insights and policy unit, and pioneered diversity and inclusion programmes.
