James Chan

Head of Commercialisation - Faculty of Engineering

James is Head of Commercialisation for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial, James worked in The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong for more than a decade handling around several hundreds of inventions and a few thousands of patent applications/patents from the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, including a patent portfolio with multiple concurrent exclusive licensees, which generated more than 80% of the licensing income of the university, in the magnitude of mid-10 millions of US dollars per year. He also helped the university to develop the licensing policy for copyright materials, includes, software, database, evaluation/diagnosing questionnaire, multimedia files, etc. With his extensive experience in Tech Transfer, James was also invited to teach a module on “Intellectual Property Management and Technology Commercialisation” under the MSc in Electronic Engineering programme and part of the module on “Technology, Society and Engineering Practice” of the undergraduate programme of CUHK.

James is an Electronic Engineer by training, with degree from CUHK and Bachelor of Laws specialised in IP Laws from The University of London. He speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Faculty of Engineering team

Dr Jialuo Luo

Dr Jialuo Luo

Jialuo is a Commercialisation Junior Officer for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London Find out more

Aysen Unsal

Aysen Unsal

Aysen Unsal is a Commercialisation Officer at Imperial College London Find out more

Miguel Cheng

Miguel Cheng

Miguel is Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation Officer for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London Find out more

Diana Yin

Diana Yin

Diana supports and leads on the commercialisation of MedTech, and HealthTech related technologies from Imperial’s Faculty of Engineering Find out more

Dr Vaibhav Sharma

Dr Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma is Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation Executive for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. Find out more

Dr Laura Cabo-Fernandez

Dr Laura Cabo-Fernandez

Dr Laura Cabo-Fernandez is Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation Officer for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. Find out more

Dr Valeska Gonzalez

Dr Valeska Gonzalez

Dr Valeska Gonzalez is Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation Executive for the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London Find out more

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