Andrew Sheffield

Andrew Sheffield is currently an analyst at Playfair Capital, a leading seed-stage venture capital fund in London. Andrew has been helping exceptional founders build technology businesses since 2013 and has backed more than 60 companies. Prior to joining Playfair Capital, Sheffield worked as a business development executive at Neudata, where they generated over £500,000 of new revenue in their first year and ideated and implemented a shift of the company's model to recurring revenue. Sheffield also has experience as a professional poker player, having played part-time through university to fund their social life and full-time for a year after graduation. Andrew eventually had to stop playing when worldwide casinos closed but says they had lots of fun while it lasted. Sheffield has also served as a Deutsche Bank ambassador and interned at State Street and Santander UK in corporate finance and commercial banking, respectively.

Andrew Sheffield has a Bachelor of Science in Economics (International) from the University of Leeds and a Simon Fraser University Economics (International) from Simon Fraser University. Andrew also has a Baines High School degree and a Blackpool Sixth Form degree.