John has over 20 years experience growing technology businesses. As well as being co-founder and director of C4DI and C4DI Ventures Accelerator, he is a board member, adviser and investor for a number of tech start-ups and scale-ups. 

C4DI is a privately funded business, focussed on growing the local tech community, incubating tech companies, and proving startup opportunities developed from corporate innovation programmes, which it runs for organisations such as Siemens, PwC, ABP, Smith & Nephew and RB.