Andrew Roughan is CEO at Plexal, the innovation company building clusters around science and technology to solve some of society’s biggest challenges. A driving force in the government mission to regenerate the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Andrew leveraged his business transformation expertise to co-lead creation of the Here East campus, including the launch of Plexal as an innovation centre. Andrew is a passionate tech for good advocate and under his leadership, Plexal has evolved into a UK-wide business with a robust innovation ecosystem that’s closing the collaboration gap between startups, government, big industry and academia to create economic growth and prosperity in communities across the regions.