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Jamie is the Founder and CEO of Creator Fund. Creator Fund is a VC fund investing in student and academic startups across 25 universities around the UK. It has been backed by Eric Schmidt's Schmidt Futures, Founders Factory, and 40 investors. Jamie built the fund after completing his MBA at Stanford Business School and working as an investor at Dorm Room Fund, where he saw how student-focused venture capital has created many of the USA's best technology startups. Jamie also worked at the media-focused fund, Raine Ventures in San Francisco.

He was previously Director of Transformation at WPP and helped build their first office in Myanmar after sanctions lifted. He also worked as a political strategist advising Presidents and Prime Ministers across the world on election campaigns, including the Cambodian democracy movement's groundbreaking 2013 election. The Guardian Newspaper named Jamie one of 20 Rising Stars in the UK. Jamie was also the 2019 General Election candidate in Westminster North. He holds a Double First Class Degree from Oxford University.

Kate is the founder and CEO of Cytochroma, a Scottish based contract research organisation that manufactures advanced stem cell models, and utilises automation, and AI to transform preclinical testing.
Previously she led multiple research projects, presented at numerous international conferences, and lectured at the University of Edinburgh and at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Kate is a driven entrepreneur and has achieved significant recognition in numerous business awards, grants, and competitions. She is a former BBSRC sponsored Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow and Converge Challenge finalist.

Stuart leads on Enterprise activity within Scotland for The Royal Bank of Scotland. Working alongside a team of Enterprise and Relationship Management experts to support businesses achieve their ambitions. The team also host thought leadership events on key business topics and use their connectivity to link SME’s to relevant partners and stakeholders. Stuart has supported 100’s of entrepreneurs for several years through the banks Entrepreneur Accelerator and is passionate about helping SME businesses to achieve their very best. He is an advocate of entrepreneurs sharing best practice to learn and understands that collaboration between innovative start-ups and stakeholders drives growth. Stuart has supported Converge for several years through the bank’s partnership and is primed to join this years judging panel.

Graham is a qualified accountant and former Finance Director with extensive executive experience in private equity ownership, debt financing, rapid growth management and transformational IT projects.

He is an angel investor, a non-executive director for two angel-backed startups and is a board member of angel investor syndicate, Apollo Informal Investment.  Graham was Group Finance Director of CALA Homes for 18 years and was Scottish Finance Director of The Year in 2018.