26+ years professional experience in financial services and law. Currently Chief Investment Officer of EFIC1, one of the first European SPACs focused on European FinTechs, listed in Amsterdam, having raised ~€380m in March 2021. Former: Founder and CEO of Barclays Ventures; Group Head of Strategy at Barclays; Investment Banker; Chancery Barrister. Extensive experience as early and growth-stage mentor, adviser and investor. Track-record of identifying, incubating and scaling disruptive strategies and data/technology-led business models. Advisory board member to the Masters in Law & Finance Course at Oxford University and also provides support to Conception X, a venture builder programme helping create early stage deep-tech start-ups in leading universities.