Advocates of Entrepreneurial Team Research Programme

The following list includes venture capital and private equity luminaries along with leading academics in the field of Entrepreneurship and Top Management Teams who have endorsed this study into the Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Teams. The results of this research are expected to provide the venture capital/private equity community with a better understanding of the impact of entrepreneurial human capital on venture success.

Calum Paterson - Managing Director, Scottish Equity Partners

Patrick Sheehan - Managing Director Technology, 3i

Andrew Hartley - Joint Managing Director, Kleinwort Capital

John Coombs - Managing Director, Unilever Ventures

Robert Drummond - Chairman, Chrysalis VCT

Maura Moore - Executive Director, Eircom Enterprise Fund

John Mackie - Managing Director, BVCA

Paul Barrie-Walsh - Founder & Chairman, Fredricks Foundation

Simon Witney - Partner, SJ Berwin

Professor Colin Mason - Professor of Entrepreneurship Research, Strathclyde University

Professor Malcolm Higgs – Academic Dean, Henley Management College