Meet the Team

Drew Abraham

Innovation and Growth Specialist

Innovate UK Business Growth

Drew has been a managing director for over 18 years with two successful facilities management SME’s which he founded and grew with a dynamic team around him. Having seen his businesses reach YOY growth between 30% and 80% for 11 consecutive years he is passionate about helping businesses tackle head on the core challenges founders and senior management face in scaling and commercialisation. He brings with him first-hand exposure to business triage and in-depth experience in operational, systems and management readiness to handle accelerated growth.

He has also had extensive experience in financial modelling in the commercial real estate sector and in conducting detailed feasibility and deal appraisals for large commercial and residential investments.

In his early career as an analyst, Drew has an interesting background delivering high-level analysis of diverse critical issues involving criminality, health services, terrorism and threat assessments for dissemination to executive level governmental organisations.

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Oxford Innovation Advice offers Insights into SME needs and policy effectiveness for policy makers, funders and business support commissioners. It draws on our 30 years’ experience of delivering positive economic growth by enabling scale-ups to achieve their full potential. Each edition concludes with an ‘Implications for funders and Policy makers’ section.

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Covid-19 Statement

Update – Wednesday 15th December 2021

Our Innovation Centres remain operational and accessible, and provide a safe environment for our staff and customers. We continue to assess the risk of COVID-19 alongside the latest guidance from government. In the meantime our Innovation Centre remains COVID-19 Secure and fully open for business. Our detailed risk assessment can be found here.