The People

Lindsay Smith

Lindsay Smith

Senior Commercialisation Manager

Lindsay is a Senior Commercialisation Manager at Ploughshare with experience across a number of sectors, including defence and security, health and wellbeing, and climate and environment. Passionate about creating impact, Lindsay enjoys seeing innovations progress at pace and relishes overcoming complex commercial challenges to achieve the end goal of getting technology into the hands of users.

Lindsay has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Leicester, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in leukemia, lymphoma, and breast cancer from 2013-2019. Before joining Ploughshare in 2021, Lindsay oversaw the technology transfer portfolio for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. A move to Ploughshare saw Lindsay working across a diverse set of cases, including leading the creation of the spin-out company, Telesemica, in 2022. Since 2023, Lindsay has sat in the Climate, Environment, and Sustainability unit where her focus has been the delivery of technology transfer services to the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). This project has seen Lindsay provide in-house consultation and hands-on delivery to solidify, bolster, and lead NOC’s technology transfer provision.

Outside of work, Lindsay enjoys keeping fit through a variety of sporting challenges and pursuits, and spending time with family and friends.