Staff Profile
Jonny Gray
Business Development Manager
- Email: jonny.gray@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: 10th Floor
Henry Daysh Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
I am responsible for developing mutually beneficial collaborations between the University and external organisations. This involves taking forward opportunities for knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs), CPD and training, licensing, spinouts, commercial research, requests for proposals, and tendering opportunities.
I provide account management for Newcastle University Business School; the School of English Literature; Language and Linguistics; the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences; and the School of Arts and Cultures.
I am also a Business Development Manager on the Arrow team, I am responsible for facilitating collaborations between North East-based organisations and Newcastle University’s academics, researchers, and experts.
My responsibilities include the account management of a varied portfolio of external organisations, from first contact to negotiating collaborations and developing proposal documents through to project delivery.
Before joining Newcastle University, I worked on Creative Fuse North East and have vast experience in supporting the region’s creative and digital sector having worked at creative development agency, Generator.