Jamie Macfarlane

Jamie Macfarlane has extensive experience in various leadership roles in the business and investment sectors. They are the CEO and Founder of Creator Fund, Europe's leading investor in university-based startups. They have also served as a Board Director for Turing Biosystems, Apian, Loci, and baseimmune.

Prior to these roles, Jamie was the Director of Transformation at WPP and a Venture Capital Summer Associate at The Raine Group. They also held the position of Senior Director at Penn Schoen Berland, a subsidiary of WPP. Additionally, Jamie participated in the prestigious WPP Fellowship program, where they had year-long placements at different WPP offices worldwide.

During their time at Mango Marketing, a WPP Fellowship Rotation, Jamie successfully built one of WPP's first advertising agencies in Myanmar. They doubled the size of the business and won a significant advertising pitch for Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor. Jamie also oversaw brand and market launch strategies for major clients including Red Bull, Unilever, Dulux, Carlsberg, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Jamie Macfarlane completed a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree at Stanford University Graduate School of Business from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, they obtained a Double 1st Class degree in History from the University of Oxford from 2006 to 2009.