The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Gillian MacAulay, managing director, Strathclyde Entrepreneurs Fund

Gillian MacAulay has almost three decades of experience as managing director of Strathclyde University’s incubator program.

In 2016, she took on an additional role in the institution’s innovation ecosystem as manager of the Strathclyde Entrepreneurs Fund, a vehicle set up to channel philanthropic donations to startups run by the university’s staff, students and recent alumni on a commercial equity basis.

Since its inception, the Strathclyde Entrepreneurs Fund has supported companies that include Cojengo, a developer of software that enables farmers in Africa to check the health of their livestock, and Pick Protection, which has created a personal safety alarm.

One of Strathclyde’s most successful companies is food protein spinout 3F Bio, which raised £6.2m ($8.6m) in a series A round backed by the Strathclyde Entrepreneurs Fund, Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of the government’s economic development organisation Scottish Enterprise, and angel network EOS Technology Investment Syndicate.