Dr Jamie Ferguson
Senior Technology Transfer Manager, Isis Innovation
Having completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Jamie joined BP in
1996. In 1999 he joined the Cambridge inkjet printing start-up Patterning Technologies Ltd (PTL). On
spinning out the Jetmask business from PTL, he became its Director of Business Development setting
up and overseeing a number of the company’s commercial relationships within the Printed Circuit
Board (PCB) market. Jamie played a key role in licensing Jetmask’s proprietary technology to Fujifilm
Electronic Imaging Ltd (FFEI) in 2002 and took up a product management position with responsibility
for PCB and inkjet based developments. Within FFEI, he led the FineTrak FT300 laser photoplotter
development and set up and managed the worldwide business. Jamie successfully obtained DTI
funding under the Micro and Nanotechnology (MNT) Initiative and managed the collaborative
research programme to develop an innovative hybrid imaging technology aimed at fine structure
production. Whilst at FFEI, Jamie completed an MBA with a dissertation looking at the strategic
positioning of the company within a new business area. Jamie joined Isis in September 2006 as a
Technology Transfer Manager.