Alisha is a Cambridge graduate with a PhD in Business Management. She is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience owning and managing businesses across the UK and the Americas.

In the UK, she is a co-owner of Deer Manor, a family business and one of the largest gourmet mushroom farms in the county, which cultivates around thirty rare types of mushrooms for a wide range of clients. Deer Manor also has a research and development arm which has developed a mycelium-based wildfire retardant using valorised waste materials which is applied to vegetation as a pre-treatment.

Alisha is currently working with IBioIC to bring this innovation to market.