Dr. Manjari Chandran-Ramesh, is a Deep-Tech Venture Investor at IP Group plc. She takes an active role as a non-executive director in several software companies (machine learning, AI and robotics) and has over a decade of experience in commercialising deep-tech intellectual property. At IP Group, she also leads the Quantum Technology portfolio. She manages technology investments from deal origination to exit, having been responsible for the trade sale of TheySay Ltd (acquired by Aptean), secondary share sale exit in Concirrus, sourcing and working with the founding team to build Quantum Motion Ltd. She has also been the acting Chair of Boxarr and Quantum Motion, and during her tenure as Chair at Quantum Motion, the company became the first Quantum Computing hardware company in the UK to successfully raise an over-subscribed series A round. She runs the Investment Accelerator in Quantum Technologies as the exclusive partner of Innovate UK and was invited by the European Investment Fund's conference in 2019 to give a keynote address about Quantum Computing. In 2020, she was named one of the top 5 investors as part of a broader Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech list. An engineer by background, Manjari has a PhD from the University of Oxford specialising in machine learning and autonomous vehicles, which she did on a Rhodes Scholarship.