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