Riam Kanso

Founder & CEO, Conception X

Dr Riam Kanso is the founder and CEO of Conception X; the UK's leading venture programme for PhDs who want to build deep technology startups. Riam has a PhD in Neuroscience from Oxford University and has worked both in computational science and med tech; and has co-founded two startups before Conception X.

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