Mike Kenny

Mike Kenny

Associate Director for Enterprise and Growth, Health Innovation North West Coast

Mike Kenny is currently the Chair of the Heath Innovation Network Commercial Directors Forum, which brings together all 15 health innovation network commercial directors to share knowledge and co-ordinate national commercial activities.

Mike has a wealth of knowledge and experience of customer relationship management and a successful track record of partnership and collaboration with NHS providers and commissioners in the North West Coast.

He uses his relationship management experience to bring innovations into the North West Coast through engagement with industry, pharmaceutical companies, Local Enterprise Partnerships,  innovation hubs, NHS, academia, local authorities and small to medium enterprises.

He previously spent more than 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of commercial, partnership and leadership roles in the North West and North East of England and Yorkshire. Mike studied genetics and microbiology at Lancaster University, one of Health Innovation North West Coast’s academic and business partners.