On Thursday 20th October, we held an Investor Dinner with serial entrepreneur Piers Linney at M Restaurants.
Piers Linney is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, converged communications and additive manufacturing. He is the Founder and CEO of Moblox, a technology and business tool platform for UK small business owners. Piers is well-known as a champion of entrepreneurship and SMEs and a regular media commentator and is probably best known as a former Dragon investor on BBC 2’s Dragons’ Den and from Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire.
Piers has a professional background as a qualified lawyer specialised in venture capital and in M&A investment banking at Credit Suisse. He was a non-executive director of the UK government’s development bank, British Business Bank during the roll-out of the £90bn Covid-19 business support loan schemes and was a Trustee of Nesta, the UK’s largest innovation foundation with a £500m endowment. Piers has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential Black Britons and in 2020 he was recognised as one of the UK’s top 20 Ethnic Minority Executives. Piers is an Adviser to Sky and sits on its Diversity Advisory Council.
