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Lucy Butler

Headline: Innocent Bystander
Skills: Business, Leadership, Management, Marketing
Groups: CUTEC
Interested in: Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities
Schools: University of Cambridge

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club
Position: Treasurer
Time period: January 2007 - December 2008
Description: Currently manage a budget of c. £35,000. Member of Executive Committee.

Employer: Corpus Christi College Boat Club
Position: Treasurer
Time period: January 2007 - December 2007
Description: Instigated initiative to raise the club’s first ever sponsorship, securing £7,000 towards a new racing boat from Barclays Capital.

Employer: Cambridge University Frontiers Society
Position: Vice-President
Time period: January 2006 - December 2007
Description: Managed and mentored a committee of eight people to run transferable skills workshops for students, including raising sponsorship, and organising and marketing events.

Employer: “i-Teams”
Position: Project Manager, deputy Team Mentor and Team member
Time period: January 2005 - December 2007
Description: • Investigated go-to-market strategies for early stage new technologies developed in Cambridge as part of a multi-disciplinary team of graduate students.
• Creatively brainstormed potential applications, researched target markets, interviewed industry experts and customers and presented conclusions to researchers and mentors.

Employer: CUTEC
Position: Vice-President for “Content” team
Time period: January 2005 - December 2006
Description: Managed a team of six people to organise themes, formats, speakers and panellists for annual Conference and a series of smaller events.

Employer: Corpus Christi College MCR
Position: Sports Officer
Time period: January 2004 - December 2005
Description: • Organised sports events and training, including setting up a new Squash Ladder.
• Point of contact for Corpus graduate students. Actively participated in MCR meetings.

Employer: ZS Associates
Position: Business Analyst
Time period: January 2002 - December 2004
Description: Management Consultancy specialising in Sales and Marketing with a focus on the Pharmaceutical industry
• Designed and executed complex data analyses to answer tough client questions.
• Developed custom analysis tools based on Excel and Access with basic programming.
• Interviewed and work shadowed members of client organisations from managers to sales representatives to thoroughly understand the client’s business issues.
• Created structured communication documents and facilitated in client meetings to present findings and recommendations.

EDUCATION

University: University of Cambridge
Time period: 2004 - 2005
Degree: Developmental Biology, MPhil

University: University of Cambridge
Time period: 2005 - Present
Degree: Developmental Biology, PhD

INFORMATION

Sports: Rowing: University squad (CUWBC), College 1st VIII. Running: Half-marathons and 10kms. Other sport: Water sports (Cambridge Wakeboard Club), Indoor climbing, Tennis.
Hobbies: Travel: Round the World trip in 2004, “Gap year” travel in 1998-99, holidays and business.
Music: Singing lessons in spare time, member of choir at school for five years.
Others: Cryptic Crosswords, Socialising, Listening to music, Reading.
Awards: 2004-2008 Wellcome Trust four year PhD programme in Developmental Biology – Highly competitive programme awarding funding for MPhil and PhD, worth c. £125,000 over four years. Selected at interview for one of five places, out of over 100 applicants.
2007 Second prize in scientific poster competition at two different conferences – Prizes are awarded for a clear and compelling message and for high scientific merit.
2002 Frank Smart Prize – Departmental award (Zoology): Top exam results of the year.
2002 Foundation Scholarship – College award: Highest honour for academic distinction.
2002 Bishop Green Cup – College award: Most distinguished exam results of the year.
2001 Parker-Eastbridge Exhibition – College award: Outstanding Academic Achievement.
2001 Caldwell Scholarship – College award: First class exam results.
1993-1998 Academic Scholarship – scholarship to The King’s School Canterbury.

Lucy's Contacts (6)

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  • Wallis Motta

    I would like to meet entrepreneurs and collaborate with them, as part of my PhD research project... Are you interested? Send me a message! I'm in Cambridge, UK.

  • Andrea Cantone

    Andrea is a Ph.D student in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, working on carbon nanotubes in collaboration with the Department of Material Science in Oxford.Andrea holds a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universi...

  • Theodoros Koutroukides

    Cypriot, 28, Biotechnology PhD student at Cambridge University. President of Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC).

  • Alfonso Rodriguez-Lecuona

    Alfonso works in the Marketing department at NEC-Philips UK, Cambridge Business Park. He studied a Master in International and European Business Law (LLM) and holds degrees in Law and Business. Alfonso is the CUTEC Vice President for Marketing ...