Places are free but are based on a first come first served basis. To secure your FREE place, please REGISTER to attend this free event by visiting www.stjohns.co.uk/events. Come to this session and leave with the hope that not all venture capital models are created the same and that there are venture capital teams that allow you to grow your business over the long term. This event is delivered by Enterprise Europe Network, Bailey Fisher Executive Search and hosted by St John’s Innovation Centre.
By the end of the session you will...
- Understand some of the pitfalls of the traditional venture capital fund model
- Learn what to look out for in your investors
- Understand how investors can add value to the board and the business
- Have an understanding of the business support provided by Enterprise Europe Network to grow your business internationally
During the session, Victor Christou, CEO of Cambridge Innovation Capital and Bruce Beckloff, Managing Partner of Bloc Ventures will take you through the venture capital models for their respective businesses and why these models are tailored for the early stage tech start up market to enable long term thinking to grow significant technology companies of global scale. This event will be chaired by David Gill, MD of St John’s Innovation Centre and will conclude with interactive open forum between the speakers and the audience, joined further by Alex McCracken from Silicon Valley Bank, Paul Bailey of Bailey Fisher Executive Search, Board Member of NESTA and Dr Chris Winter from Brightstar Innovations.
Profile of Speakers Bruce BeckloffBruce is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Bloc Ventures, a venture company targeting investment in early stage technology companies. Previous to this, Bruce was with ARM Holdings for 12 years holding a variety of positions during his tenure. Most recently he served as head of Corporate Development responsible for ARM’s corporate strategy development, M&A, and investments activities. Bruce has assisted the UK government as a venture capital Strategic Advisor helping the UK’s high growth early stage companies’ access financing from venture providers.
Victor Christou
Victor has considerable experience on both sides of the investment table. In recent years he has focused his attention on technology investing. Immediately prior to CIC, Victor was at pan-European venture capital investors Wellington Partners, where he was a Venture Partner in the Tech Team. Before that Victor founded Opsys, an organic electronics business focusing on OLEDs and was a member of the team that sold Opsys to Cambridge Display Technology (now owned by Sumitomo Chemicals). Victor has a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College, London and was a Sloan Fellow in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. In the early stages of his career, Victor was an academic at the University of California at Berkeley and then at the University of Oxford, where he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. Victor was the Royal Society of Chemistry Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002.
Bailey Fisher Executive Search is an independent international executive search firm specialising in technology, life sciences & healthcare. Headquartered in the UK, we thrive in the fast-paced environment of one of the world’s most exciting technology clusters. Bailey Fisher has contributed to the success of some of the most impressive companies to have emerged from the UK market in recent years by introducing entrepreneurial executives from our extensive international network. We are experts in building the boards and senior management teams for clients at all stages of the growth cycle, from start-ups, through venture and private equity backed businesses to public companies across a broad range of technology sectors.
Nesta Impact Investment invest in organisations that create a positive social impact as well as delivering a financial return. Nesta Impact Investments believes that the power of innovation should be used to solve major social problems that bring benefits to everyone in society, investing in social ventures with inclusive and scalable innovations that are run by outstanding entrepreneurs.