https://tech.newstatesman.com/news/innovate-uk-executive-chair > Innovate UK is finally preparing to launch its search for a permanent executive chair, nearly a year after the neuroscientist Dr Ruth McKernan stepped down from the investment agency’s top job. > The government had originally said it would launch a campaign to find a successor to Dr McKernan when in November 2017 she announced plans to leave her role as chief executive.