Rory Earley

Mr. Rory Earley was appointed CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Capital for Enterprise in April 2008 following 4 years of advising the UK Government on the development and implementation of its venture capital programmes.
Prior to that, he was Senior Investment Manager at Westport Private Equity Ltd, designing and investing in venture capital funds around the world.
Mr. Earley was previously responsible for developing and implementing the UK Government’s first interventions in venture capital funds in the 1990s.
He has been Chair of, and investor in a successful University spinout company, chair of an EU expert group on risk capital, member of the Investment TaskForce advising UK Government and was until recently also a Director of Greece's first venture capital investment company (TANEO).
He holds an MBA from Sheffield University.