ARKANE INNOVATION - Key Persons


Brian Hayes - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Senior Executive
  • Co - Founder and Chief Consulting and Coaching Partner
Brian is an experienced senior executive, chairman and non-executive director. He is currently chairman of Bank of Montreal Europe plc. A former Managing Director and board member of Citibank Europe plc, inter alia, he has also chaired a payment technology the company, was chairman of Dublin City University Educational Trust, chairman of a data science company and chairman of an industry/academic research centre (based in University College Cork, Ireland).

Dr. Ian Proctor - COO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • Co - Founder
Bio: Ian Proctor has spent his career working at the interface of academia, Ian was Managing Director of Technology Commercialization for Dhahran Techno Valley Company (DTVC), a new company formed by a number of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and other stakeholders to further the technology transfer and commercialization agenda in Saudi Arabia. It allowed him to develop, refine and leverage networks in the academic, business and investment sectors - networks which continue to be critical in ongoing activities in the innovation-based business development sector. Ian was then recruited to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as Director of Technology Transfer.

Mark Crowell - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • President
Bio: Mark provides advice and consulting services in the areas of innovation, engagement, entrepreneurship and translational research to universities, boards, regional and national governing and development authorities, and private industry.