Professor Andy Neely OBE  is Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His previous appointments include Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Enterprise and Business Relations at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Complex Services at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a UK national research programme and the Director of the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University. 

As Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge Andy had responsibility for all of the University’s activities relating to innovation, commercialisation, startups and spinouts. He sat on the boards of Cambridge Enterprise, the University’s technology transfer business and Cambridge Innovation Capital, a venture capital fund. He played a leading role in establishing Innovate Cambridge, a city-wide initiative to develop a community-based innovation strategy for Cambridge. 

During his career, Andy has founded several major research centres and groups, including the Cambridge Service Alliance at the University of Cambridge and the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University. He is co-founder of Anmut, the data valuation specialists and a Non-Executive Director at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. 

He has written over 100 books and articles, including “Measuring Business Performance", published by the Economist and "The Performance Prism", published by the Financial Times. In 2020 he was awarded an OBE for services to research and university-industry collaboration. 

He is widely recognised for his work on manufacturing and service operations, including the servitization of manufacturing and the design and deployment of strategic performance measurement systems. Currently he is working on AI and its practical application in organisations. 

Weblink for Cambridge Service Alliance - https://cambridgeservicealliance.eng.cam.ac.uk/

Weblink for Anmut - https://www.anmut.co.uk/

Weblink for High Value Manufacturing Catapult - https://hvm.catapult.org.uk/