Experience

Ada Ventures

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Portfolio and Brand

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1.5mn in UK technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. If you are raising seed capital for your startup you can apply directly below: Fundraising: https://adaventures.typeform.com/AdaSubmissions

• Venture Partner

  • Mar 2021 - May 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom



Year Here

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Ventures

  • Aug 2021 - May 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom Year Here is an entrepreneurship programme and venture incubator that builds and launches ambitious new social ventures.



BACKED VC

• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Venture & Talent Scout

  • Oct 2019 - May 2022

  London, England, United Kingdom BACKED is a human-centric and community-driven seed stage venture capital fund. We invest in exceptional founders at seed in Europe.



Knowledge Peers plc

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Director (Workspace Business Insight Programme)

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom Knowledge Peers provided a white-labelled business insight programme and content advisory service to Workspace Group - supporting founders and directors from an ecosystem of over 3,000 SMEs.



Informed Funding

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Director

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom Informed Funding (iF) provided founders and directors independent financial guidance, funding & investment advice designed for UK growth companies - supporting ecosystems at Workspace Group and Plexal. Informed Funding provided tailored investment and funding support for LORCA cohort members - a cybersecurity accelerator delivered by Plexal and funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.



Knowledge Peers plc

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager for the Cloud Innovation Network

  • Mar 2013 - Dec 2013

  London, England, United Kingdom Developed and grew the cloud innovation network across the business; engaged subject matter experts and sponsors within the cloud computing space.



Visa

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Political and Regulatory Monitoring (via Reputation Inc)

  • Apr 2012 - Dec 2013

  London, England, United Kingdom Provided a monthly research and monitoring report for VISA’s Inc leadership and insights team. Identified political, policy and regulatory developments that had a positive or negative commercial impact on VISA’s business.



GuideStar International

• Head of Client Services at GuideStar Data Services

  • Feb 2008 - Jun 2010

  London, England, United Kingdom GuideStar Data Services aggregated data on charities and social enterprises and provided market intelligence, data and consultancy services to central and local governments, financial and third sector research institutions.



Bermuda Progressive Labour Party

• Political Campaign Manager

  • May 2007 - Dec 2007

  City of Hamilton, Hamilton city, Bermuda Campaign developed and drove an integrated campaign data strategy; Executed campaign strategy, secured 52.45% of the vote, secured 22 parliamentary seats, an 8-seat majority.