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Piers Linney is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and former Dragon on BBC1's Dragons' Den.
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Piers Linney is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, media, communications, and additive manufacturing. He is a co-founder of Atherton Bikes, the world-leading producer of additive manufactured mountain bikes and is the founder of Moblox, the technology and tools platform for small businesses. Piers is a well-known champion of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized businesses and a regular media commentator on radio and TV.
Piers is best known as a former Dragon investor on BBC1’s Dragons’ Den and from Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire. He has a professional background as a qualified lawyer specialised in venture capital , M&A investment banking at Credit Suisse and alternative asset fund management, and was a Non-executive Director of the UK government’s development bank British Business Bank during the roll out of the £90bn Covid business support loan schemes. Piers was also a former Trustee of Nesta the UK’s largest innovation agency with a £500m endowment. He 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.
See keynotes with Piers LinneyFrom a Lancashire mill town and failing his 11+ to law and investment banking at the highest level in the City and BBC Dragons’ Den.
Business change, growth, scaling up your business and its impact. See Piers’s five factors for growth below.
The future of business, employment, the economy and skills based on his experience in technology and as a trustee of the UK’s largest innovation agency, Nesta.
Personal experience and impact on business, society and social mobility built on his work as a charitable founder and with Sky.
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