Dr Glenn Crocker, MBE DPhil

Glenn Crocker is an experienced chief executive, company founder, non-executive director and investor in the life sciences sector. He was founding CEO of BioCity Group from mid-2003, becoming Chairman at the start of 2019, when he also took up the role of UK Head of Life Sciences, for the global real estate advisor, JLL. In April 2021 BioCity was acquired by Trinity Investment Management and a new company, Pioneer Group Ltd was created. 

Pioneer Group provides the physical, financial and social infrastructure to support the creation and growth of life science and technology companies. The group manages around £1 billion of science real estate, alongside a team that helps create and build new ventures and a venture investment arm.

Glenn has a DPhil in Immunology from Oxford University and qualified as a chartered accountant with EY, working with biotech companies in Palo Alto, California and Cambridge, UK, where he headed up the UK Biotech practice for EY. Today he runs the ventures arm of Pioneer Group, responsible for venture building and investment, and a senior consultant to JLL.

He is a non-executive director of BDD, BioAscent Discovery, Alderley Park Ventures and the UK Science Parks Association and a governor of Trent College and has co-founded, invested in and exited many successful life science companies.

In 2014 Glenn received an MBE for services to the biotechnology industry.

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