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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

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