Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Every term the King’s students are joined by a renown professional who will provide them with mentoring, guidance, practical advice and connections to help them succeed in their entrepreneurship journey.

Current Entrepreneur in Residence is Billy Boyle.

Past EiRs:

  • The inaugural King's College Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Lent and Easter Terms 2022) was Sheryl Cuisia.

Hi there!

I am thrilled to be King’s inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Through my residency, I will be freely available to assist students with their entrepreneurial ideas and projects as well as navigating Cambridge Ecosystem.

Learn more about Billy’s companies Owlstone and Owlstone Medical here.

Billy Boyle
King's College Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Michaelmas, Lent and Easter Terms (2022/23)

Our Entrepreneurs in Residence

  • Co-Founder of Owlstone, Billy Boyle, has joined the College as the new Entrepreneur-in-Residence as part of the King's Entrepreneurship Lab. In his role Billy will be available to help students interested in creating their own start-up businesses, as well as helping arrange speakers for the E-Lab's event programme.

    An Engineering graduate from Trinity Hall, Billy moved into research before co-founding Owlstone Inc, spun out of Cambridge in 2004 with the goal of developing the applications of field asymmetric ion mobility spectroscopy (FAIMS). As CEO of Owlstone Medical, he is helping develop a non-invasive breathalyser to support the early detection of cancer, respiratory and liver diseases, digestive health problems and other conditions.

    Billy is also a judge for the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Pioneer award and a trustee of the Linacre Institute. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and an MBE in 2021.

    Learn more about Billy here.

Meet Sheryl

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  • I am thrilled to be King’s inaugural Entrepreneur-in-Residence. With a background in business creation and investor engagement, expect an experience-based, energetic, and progressive approach to our engagement. Through my residential role this term, I will be freely available to assist students with their entrepreneurial ideas and projects, in addition to running a series of talks and workshops on the themes of starting up, investment, ‘side-hustling’ and ‘platrepreneurship’. An over-arching principle that I will be promoting is having confidence to be creative and free in thinking, having the courage to be commercial without compromising values, and becoming networked through making connections.

    Sheryl CuisiaKing's College Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lent and Easter Terms (2022), in residence from 17th of January to 30th of September 2022

    Read Sheryl’s bio.

Meet Billy

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