Chief Executive

Dr Peter Blenkinsop

A graduate in Biochemistry from Birmingham (BSc) and Edinburgh (PhD) universities Peter spent the first 20 years of his career in the international brewing and malting industries latterly as a Divisional Director within Tate & Lyle.

Peter moved to the public sector in 1992 when he took up the position of Director of Commissioning with the then Barking and Havering Family Health Services Authority. In 1995 he was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of a newly established Business Link. In 1997 he took up the position of Director of Business Development for Silsoe Research Institute one of the BBSRC Research Institutes.