Robert Shilston

Robert Shilston is the Group Chief Technology Officer at Blenheim Chalcot, providing a mixture of strategic and hands-on advice & guidance to the portfolio companies in all aspects of technology, product development, infrastructure and risk management.

Formerly Rob was the Director of Engineering at the Financial Times, which he joined following the successful acquisition of his web development business in 2011. At the FT, he and his team won industry awards ranging from devops transformation through mobile and web product development.

Rob has a PhD from UCL, is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.