Nick Skinner

Senior Vice President, Human Resources

At Abcam, I lead the global HR and Workplace teams. Our focus is to make Abcam a great place to work. The team come from diverse backgrounds, champion many initiatives across the organization, and are passionate about our agenda.

Employee engagement has increased enormously over the last seven years and our people enjoy working at Abcam, finding it both a challenging and very rewarding workplace. I am proud of the level of engagement that our people feel for our business.

As the Global Sponsor for Corporate & Social Responsibility, I am inspired by our purpose, the work we do, and how we enable positive impact on society. I am privileged to lead across this agenda, from our diversity and inclusion, to helping inspire the next generation of scientists.

I joined Abcam in 2016 and in that time have led the HR team, our programmes office and in 2020 and 2021, I led our Sales and Customer Service teams as well. I have over 25 years of experience in HR and Change in global roles at Ford, Exxon Mobil, Centrica, Motability Operations and RSA Insurance. I am a graduate of the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.