John spent fifteen years in the international oil industry in various expatriate management roles before returning to London where he spent ten years with Inchcape PLC in a variety of senior sales and operational positions. He left corporate life almost twenty years ago to focus on investing in early stage tech businesses and has led start-ups both in the UK and US since.

He has been involved in a number of successful exits. He believes passionately that young businesses are the lifeblood of commerce for creating jobs and coming up with the ideas that transform lives. “Working with ambitious young entrepreneurs to help them take their ideas and turn them into businesses is so exciting and the feeling of achievement is beyond comparison”.