Rhys Pearce-Palmer

Rhys Pearce-Palmer, Innovation Operations Manager at Cardiff University

Rhys Pearce-Palmer is the Innovation Operations Manager at Cardiff University, where he oversees the university's activities within Cardiff Innovations@sbarc and the Cardiff Medicentre.256

Some key responsibilities of his role include:

• Managing lettable offices, wet labs, and co-working spaces for businesses wanting to co-locate with the university1
• Curating business development opportunities for tenants such as networking, collaboration, and peer mentoring1
• Ensuring tenants get access to partner activities such as with SETsquared and UKSPA1

Prior to becoming Innovation Operations Manager in October 2021, Pearce-Palmer held other roles at Cardiff University such as Enterprise Manager from May 2016 to October 2021 and Executive Officer (Student Services Improvement) from October 2015 to May 2016.47

He is a Welsh speaker and can be reached at PearceR5@cardiff.ac.uk.23