Andrew Gaule speaks with Chris Wade, director of the VC unit at UK Trade & Investment.
Gaule: What is your role at UKTI and your previous experience in venture capital (VC)?
Wade: I am director of the VC unit at UK Trade & Investment, an organisation that promotes UK companies around the world and encourages investment into the UK on behalf of the government. My background is as an entrepreneur. I worked for 20 years in major corporates in the telecoms vendor industry in the US, principally with a company called Northern Telecom. Then I formed my own company, Cambridge Positioning Systems, a technology company that was creating the…
