Elena Watts-Pass

MEET Elena

Elena Watts is a Portfolio Programme Associate with TDK Ventures. She is focused on exploring and facilitating collaborative synergies between TDK Ventures portfolio companies and global TDK teams with the aim of building mutual value partnerships.

Prior to working at TDK Ventures, Elena worked at the bridge of academia and industry at Cambridge Enterprise, the technology transfer office for the University of Cambridge. Here she helped academics to achieve positive impact from their research through commercialisation.

Elena has a number of passions, one of which is a deep curiosity for how the world works. She has a master’s degree in chemistry with nanotechnology, and a PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London.