David Secher is a specialist in research commercialisation.[1] He was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2007 for his work as the co-founder and chairman of Praxis (now PraxisAuril,[2] of which he is now Patron) and the first chief executive of the N8 Group, a group of universities in the north of England. He is now the Principal of Cambridge Knowledge Transfer (a KT and Interim Management consultancy company); and a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is also a non-executive director of Crossword Cybersecurity plc and the Chair of Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises Ltd. He is an elected member of the University of Cambridge Finance Committee.