Yuri Andersson
Executive Director - Strategic Initiatives
Yuri Andersson has over 20 years experience of technology innovation in start-ups, research institutes and multi-nationals as a scientist, manager and director. has founded and co-founded a number of companies and is CEO of Angoka, which develops hardware cybersecurity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles.
Yuri is Chairman of QLM Technology, a gas imaging sensor maker, and he is on the Board of Nu Quantum, a quantum-secure communications technology company. He is also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bristol QTEC (Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre), and mentors on various programmes, including at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
Previously, he spent over a decade in financial technology innovation, both in startups and also at investment banks where he has overseen multi-year, multi-million global technology programmes, including six years at BNP Paribas.
Yuri studied physics and engineering to a PhD level at CERN, Stanford, Cape Town and Linköping and holds an Executive MBA from London Business School.