Nick Buckland OBE has a portfolio career. He chairs and is a board member of a number of organisations locally, regionally and nationally, in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Having previously spent over 20 years in the IT industry, Nick is an acknowledged expert in strategic planning, audit, governance, review processes, quality, technology and innovation. He was Deputy Chair of the South West Regional Development Agency and a founding member of the governing board of the Technology Strategy Board – now InnovateUK – the government’s innovation agency. He was Pro Chancellor and former chair of Governors of the University of Plymouth, and chaired Plymouth Science Park.

He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Bath, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Maths and it’s Applications, the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Chartered Management Institute. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and the Royal Institution. He holds a Dip RSA, is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Information Systems Practitioner, Chartered Manager and a European Engineer. He was appointed OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours List for services to Innovation & Technology and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology by the University of Plymouth in 2013.