Maciej van der Steen has an M.Sc. in aerospace engineering from the Technical University of Delft. He has over 12 years experience in assisting company from various sizes obtaining public funding for R&D, innovation, and investment projects across Europe winning over £100m of funding in that time. He currently specialised in UK business grants, and is the operational lead for the grants practice in England and Wales at EY. He firmly believes that funding is a means to an end rather than a goal, and works interactively with his clients to understand and explore the key innovation pathways in their organisation, and how public funding can be used to accelerate their developments.