Tim Jackson

About

Tim runs Walking Ventures, and has been an active early-stage investor since 2000 and an advisor and non-executive director to a number of private companies. He served as managing director of a $700m European technology venture fund at the Carlyle Group, a US private equity firm. Formerly he was founder and CEO of QXL, which went to IPO on the Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange and was sold in 2007 for $1.9 billion. He wrote a weekly technology column for the Financial Times for seven years, was a staff writer for The Economist and The Independent. He studied philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford, and is the author of three business books.

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