Bruce Walker
Strategic Advisor at Powering Futures
Bruce Walker
Strategic Advisor at Powering Futures
Edinburgh, Scotland
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2017 - Current
FutureX helps leaders build great companies, learn new skills and scale with purpose. www.futurexlearn.com
Co-Founder
2016
Strategic Advisor
2023
Powering Futures believes that truly engaging the Next Generation is fundamental to achieving a positive transition to Net Zero. By unleashing the underestimated skills and talent of the future workforce through our unique challenge programme, we will positively drive sustainability within business from the bottom-up.
VC Scout
2021
Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent-building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. Ada invests across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. I'm excited to use my network to help great founders get connected with meaningful capital.
Angel Investor
2023 - 2024
Ada Ventures is the inclusive venture firm. Ada Ventures finds and funds extraordinary talent building breakthrough ideas for the hardest problems we face. We are investing out of our second fund and we invest £250,000 - £1m in UK technology companies across climate, economic empowerment and healthcare & ageing. Ada Ventures has chosen a second cohort of 20 Ada's Angels who are seed-series A specialist operators & founders in their sectors.
Guest Contributor
2020
Committee Member
2022 - 2024
Contributor
2016 - 2018
Guest blogger for the HuffPost, writing about startup, entrepreneurship, technology and the world we live in.
Director
2017 - 2018
Founder
2013 - 2018
WeAreTheFuture is a global entrepreneurship organisation that hosts international summits and programmes for entrepreneurs. We work with world leading business figures and have hosted summits with over 5,000 entrepreneurs across Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. www.wearethefuture.org.uk
Board Director
2015 - 2017
Chairman
2016 - 2017
The Entrepreneur's Foundation (TEF) is an entrepreneurial charity, created to empower the next generation of Scottish entrepreneurs in schools throughout the Country. We're passionate about helping Scotland's young people be the best they can be and believe that there’s an opportunity for Scotland's businesses to make a huge difference to the future of Scotland's children, working together towards a common goal - supporting enterprise and entrepreneurship in Scotland's schools. www.tef.scot