Ananay Aguilar, director of the transatlantic collaboration of tech transfer offices TenU, has left to advise the National Research Foundation of Singapore, where she will help build a national tech transfer alliance.
Pippa Browne, who has been TenU’s senior strategic communications adviser since January, will be taking over from Aguilar.
Aguilar had been with TenU since June 2020, when she joined as its first employee, initially working as a policy adviser, before becoming the policy and programmes manager in May 2022 and then head in July 2022.
She was promoted to TenU’s inaugural director in July 2025.
TenU is a collaboration of the tech transfer offices of Cambridge (out of whose offices it operates), Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh, Imperial, UCL, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, and KU Leuven.
Among Aguilar’s achievements are the creation of the USIT Guides, which have since been adopted by 70 universities in the UK and internationally, the mentorship initiatives TenU Future Leaders Programme and TenURise, and the webinar series TenU Hosts (the latest of which was also released as a podcast by The Next Leap).
“True collaboration takes thought, patience and persistence. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to work alongside people who have shared that commitment, challenged my thinking, and helped turn ambitious visions into outcomes far greater than the sum of their contributing parts,” says Aguilar, reflecting on her time with TenU. “I’ve learned an enormous amount along the way, and I’m deeply grateful to everyone who shared their time, expertise and trust.”
