Bulkin, Bernie: - Born in a New Jersey farmhouse, educated on the streets of New York and at several fine universities, Bernie Bulkin spent 18 years as an academic chemist, teacher and leader at various New York universities. For his research he received the Coblentz Award, the Society of Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Research Citation. He then held a variety of industrial management and research positions with BP, including Chief Scientist. Bernie Bulkin has been a venture capitalist and he has been on the board of 12 companies. He was Chair of the UK Office of Renewable Energy, a Professorial Fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Vice President of the Energy Institute, and the author of the 2015 book on leadership, Crash Course. He was made an OBE in the New Year Honours list 2017.