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Biography

Dieter Kiewell

Dieter is a Director in McKinsey’s London Office. He leads the London Sales & Marketing Practice, and co-leads the Global Pricing Practice. He works primarily on strategy and marketing issues in the business-to-business sector and business-to-consumer businesses (including expertise in high-tech industries). Dieter has a passion for entrepreneurship and has helped lead McKinsey’s engagement with the Tech City initiative.

Lars Lindstedt

Lars Lindstedt heads the UK Software Economy, Academic and Emerging Business programmes at Microsoft, focusing on how software delivers responsible economic growth and the factors that accelerate that growth, such as skills, innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment.

Phil Cox

Phil is the head of Silicon Valley Bank’s operations in the UK, Europe and Israel. Silicon Valley Bank is dedicated to serving technology and life sciences entrepreneurs and provides financial services to over half the venture-backed startups in the US. In his UK role, Phil is committed to helping UK-based entrepreneurs compete on the global stage. He has over two decades’ experience in the UK financial services sector, having previously held roles with Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and RBS/Natwest.

Rohan Silva

Rohan Silva is Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister. Rohan works across all areas of government policy, but has a particular passion for technology and innovation. He has led the development of key policies to improve the environment for enterprise in the UK, such as the EIS tax changes announced in Budget 2011, the government open data agenda, the Entrepreneur Visa, the Hargreaves Review of IP and the development of the Tech City cluster.

Tamara Rajah

Tamara is an Associate Principal in McKinsey’s London Office and a fashion entrepreneur. Her consulting work focuses on strategy, innovation and growth for pharmaceutical and life science clients. Alongside her full-time role at McKinsey, she is the founder of Tamara Kanes, the one-stop online clothing retailer for professional women. Tamara holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Masters in Biotechnology from the University of Cambridge.

Name and role

Biography

Matt Clifford, CEO

Before joining Entrepreneur First, Matt was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. His work focused on helping clients develop new ventures and innovative delivery models within their existing organisations. He is passionate about technology and excited to have the opportunity to help some of the UK's brightest students develop their ideas.

Alice Bentinck, COO

Alice was also previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company. At university she was involved in student enterprise and is excited about continuing her involvement in this space.