Angela Mathis

Angela is CEO and co-founder of ThinkTank Maths Limited. The company, founded in 2007, improves Engineering and Business processes using novel ‘Mathematical Frameworks’ – intelligent engineering software based on advanced data analysis, beyond AI – to deal with complexity and uncertainty of industrial and engineering problems required for the energy transition (renewables, digital oil and gas), space/defence and aeronautics.

Angela is a Council member of ADS Scotland, the UK trade body for Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space, and is on the Market and Economics Advisory Group of the UK Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI). Currently she is on the SPE, DETS, Digital Integration Solutions Committee. She served 5 years on the Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC), advising the Scottish Government on science related policies and legislation. Her 35-year professional history is in international technology commercialisation. Interestingly, in the early 1990s, in response to the ‘ozone crisis’, whilst at I.C. I. Polyurethanes (Belgium), Angela successfully commercialised a novel CFC-free and recyclable product for the upholstery and mattress industries.

Angela has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business and Finance from Solvay Business School, Brussels and a Masters with Honours from the University of Glasgow in French and German Language and Literature. She is a Global Scot, having lived and worked in Paris, Brussels, Geneva and Freiberg, Germany for over 20 years.