Team Consulting

Team Consulting is a medical device design and development consultancy. The company works with pharmaceutical companies and medtech businesses globally.
The company is located on the outskirts of Cambridge, UK, and is part of Silicon Fen, the cluster of high-tech businesses which has made the Cambridge area one of the most important technology centres in Europe. The majority of the company's workforce are consultants who offer expertise in industrial design, human factors and ergonomics, electrical, mechanical and software engineering, and in the physical sciences.
History.
Team Consulting was founded in 1986 and began as a general product development and engineering consultancy before focusing on the medical sector in the early 1990s. In 2004, the company moved into its current premises, a redeveloped Grade II listed 13th century barn with additional offices, laboratories and workshops in Ickleton, Cambridge.
In 2014, Team completed a staff-led buyout. The buyout involved more than 80% of staff buying equity in the company to ensure ownership remained with the staff, it was open to everybody working at the company.
In December 2016, the company worked with Graeme Nuttall OBE at Fieldfisher LLP to transfer control of the company to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT). In June 2017, the company announced the recruitment of its 100th employee.
Work and awards.
Team Consulting's work primarily focuses on the design and development of medical devices, helping companies in areas such as drug delivery (respiratory, parenteral, etc.), critical care, surgery, regenerative medicine and stem cell therapies. The company's work means that it contributes to industry and scientific discussion, has filed many patents with clients to advance technology and is a thought-leader in areas such as inhaler technology and drug delivery devices.
Team Consulting have won various design and engineering awards for their work with their clients. In 2012, Team Consulting worked with OrganOx, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford to develop a world-first device which keeps a human liver alive outside the body. This work received the 'Consultancy of the Year' award at the British Engineering Excellence Awards and three Institution of Engineering and Technology awards.
Further recent awards include a 2016 Red Dot Design Award for REVITIVE Medic, a 2014 Good Design Award for the Axis-D Injector Pen, 2013 and 2012 Red Dot Design Awards for the Revitive IX and Aerosure devices, and a Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation Award in the Wound Infection Diagnostic Industry for its Spatial Reach concept for chronic wound monitoring.
Culture.
In the 2013 Cambridgeshire Cycle Challenge, Team Consulting came in both 2nd and 3rd place for companies between 50–199 employees for encouraging the most people to cycle to work.
Two years later, Team Consulting took part in the 2015 'Love to Ride' National Cycle Challenge, again achieving 2nd place for companies between 50–199 employees. The company managed an 86% staff participation rate and cycled over 3,500 miles during the three-week challenge.