Innovate, Connect, Succeed
Creating Impact Through
Innovation and Engagement
Unlock new opportunities by leveraging over 3 decades of collaboration and innovation experience.
About Quad Helix
At Quad Helix, we believe that true innovation does not happen in isolation, it happens when the right people connect. Originally established in 2015 as BioQ8, our rebranding to Quad Helix represents a decade of proven success and the natural evolution of expert commercial consultancy. Built on the philosophy of impact beyond income, our core strength is breaking down traditional sector silos to focus on what truly drives progress: uniting the right people around shared visions and transforming early stage ideas into powerful, real world realities.
Led by an intensely analytical strategist and engineer holding both an MBA and a DBA, Quad Helix operates as an established, trusted strategic bridge. We excel at looking well beyond the obvious pathways, matching individuals and organisations across completely different fields to uncover unexpected, left field synergies that others miss. Backed by three decades of overall experience and a personal track record of securing £44.5 million in collaborative funding bids, we expertly navigate complex multi party environments. We do not just consult, we connect people with people to build the human ecosystems that turn ambitious ideas into tangible, widespread prosperity.
Our Core Services
Business Growth & Development
Quad Helix co-creates clear growth strategies, internal governance policies, and practical execution plans for every stage of the business lifecycle. Whether you are starting up, securing vital investment, scaling massive operations, or planning an eventual exit, the firm guides the entire journey to ensure sustainable commercial success.
Grant Writing
Finding and winning critical funding is essential for major projects. Quad Helix acts as a direct gateway to key funding bodies, identifying and securing collaborative grants from the likes of Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe, NIHR, and regional funds. With a proven track record of securing £44.5 million in successful funding bids, the firm specialises in building the right multi party consortia, connecting elite academic researchers, industry leaders, and public bodies to create winning applications. All bid writing is delivered on a strict time charge basis with no commission.
Business Contract Audit
Protecting your competitive edge requires watertight frameworks. Quad Helix reviews and structures your critical business contracts and intellectual property setups, ensuring that as you scale, collaborate, or transition, your commercial assets remain completely protected and aligned with your long term strategy.
Innovation Advice & Support Brokerage
True innovation requires an expert bridge between disconnected worlds. Quad Helix breaks down traditional sector silos by mapping out the exact pipelines needed to take complex ideas, clinical concepts, or technical research straight to the commercial market, creating robust strategies for digital adoption and AI governance.
Business Partner Introduction
Progress happens when the right people connect. Operating as a powerful, relationship driven matchmaker, Quad Helix looks well beyond the obvious pathways to link business leaders, corporate executives, and civic bodies with elite academic researchers and unexpected technical networks to find left field synergies that others miss.
Sales & Business Development Training
Beyond writing overarching plans, Quad Helix ensures your teams possess the practical skills to execute them. The firm delivers high impact training that equips professionals to manage procurement dynamics, navigate client vendor relationships, and build long term partnerships rather than simple transactional ties.
Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
Structural change requires personal support. Quad Helix provides direct, expert coaching and mentoring to senior leaders, clinicians, and founders across academia, industry, and the civic sector, helping them manage complex multi party environments and drive teams toward a shared vision.
Business Marketing & UX Research
To ensure your products find traction, Quad Helix delivers targeted relationship marketing insight and user experience guidance. The firm helps you capture deep client feedback and analyze market environments, enabling you to refine your productisation strategy and communicate your message clearly to the right decision makers.
government
Linking Public Sector Leaders with Regional Innovators
Quad Helix specialises in greasing the wheels of complex public sector environments, helping local authorities, combined authorities, and NHS Trusts connect with the right regional businesses and university researchers.
Rather than simply delivering workshops, the firm helps public sector bodies design regional engagement policies and actionable execution plans that spark local economic growth.
Quad Helix maps out how to safely govern and deploy smart digital infrastructure and clinical AI, and it builds the exact pipelines needed to take healthcare innovations from a clinician’s initial idea straight to the market. To get these initiatives off the ground, the firm finds and secures major public grants from Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe, NIHR, and regional pots, delivering all bid writing on a strict time charge basis with no commission.
academia
Connecting Institutional Strategy with Academic Reality
In universities, Quad Helix bridges the gap between senior management targets and what academics actually want to do. The firm’s work goes far beyond running training workshops; it collaborates directly with university executive teams, research directorates, and knowledge exchange managers to write practical strategies, design internal policies, and build real execution plans.
Quad Helix analyses how institutions perform against KEF and HEBCIS benchmarks, maps out exact pathways to turn research into real world impact, and opens doors to the right external partners. It also helps academic teams find and win major funding streams, from Innovate UK and UKRI to Horizon Europe, NIHR, and regional grants, making sure early stage ideas get the backing they need to succeed.
industry
Helping Businesses Connect, Start, Scale, Fund, and Exit
Quad Helix acts as a powerful matchmaker across the industrial spectrum, connecting corporate executives, engineering firms, and ambitious enterprises with elite academic researchers and unexpected technical networks.
The firm does not just offer standard business training or advice, it works directly with leaders to build clear growth strategies, internal governance policies, and practical execution plans for every stage of the business lifecycle. Whether an enterprise is just starting up, securing vital investment, scaling massive operations, or planning an eventual exit, Quad Helix helps guide the entire journey.
A core part of the service is helping organisations find and secure critical collaborative funding and grants, navigating complex systems like Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe, NIHR, and regional funds, while making sure intellectual property and commercial contracts are completely protected.
society
Amplifying Lived Experience and Delivering Real World Impact
For innovation to matter, it must deliver true public good and impact beyond income. Quad Helix works closely with regional charities, trust boards, and social enterprises to build human networks that solve deep rooted community challenges. A vital part of this work is bridging the gap between communities and policymakers, creating strategic pathways that help individuals with lived experience get their messages and insights genuinely heard by decision-makers.
The firm’s assistance is highly practical, collaborating directly with civic leaders to develop long term sustainability strategies, income diversification policies, and concrete execution plans. Quad Helix helps community facing organisations safely adopt digital tools, evaluate their social impact, and find and win public funding and regional grants so they can amplify their reach and drive lasting local prosperity.
Meet Our Expert Team
Our team at Quad Helix is composed of seasoned professionals dedicated to driving innovation and success for your business.
Dr. Omar Al-Janabi aua arma
Director
Omar is an engineer and strategist with 29 years of business development experience, 22 of which in Higher Education (Russell Group and Post92) operating at the cutting edge of knowledge exchange and cross-sector collaboration. Having provided expert consultancy since 2015 under BioQ8, the launch of Quad Helix marks a decade of proven success in professional matchmaking and relationship-driven innovation. Backed by an MBA, a DBA, and a personal track record of winning £44.5 million in collaborative grants, Omar specialises in building powerful multi-party consortia for streams like Innovate UK, UKRI, Horizon Europe, and NIHR. Omar is passionate about building human networks that turn ambitious concepts into tangible impact.
Emma Reilly
Innovation & Design Research Partner
Emma is an experienced technical startup founder and product builder, as well as a best-selling author of the ‘No-Code Startup’. She has worked on the development and launch of several products in the health, eCommerce and B2B space, both in Europe and the US. Her background in user experience design, coupled with a passion for dementia design, led her to study for her Masters of Research in Design for which she will graduate in 2027. She is passionate about innovation that has a social cause and intends to pursue her design research doctorate in 2028.