Dan Ballin

Chief Executive Officer

2017 - Current

Ideas Crucible is all about helping entrepreneurs grow and corporates innovate. For start-ups and scale-ups we provide a set of services helping them to accelerate their growth. This includes an advisory service, access to corporate clients and investment. We offer a start-up friendly package covering people strategy operations, finance, and branding

Member of The Board of Advisors

2022

Providing advice to the board of a global fast-paced cyber security company who protect operational technology for CIOs and CISO of clients within the Energy, Government, Health, and Maritime.

Editor In Chief, Journal of Virtual Reality - impact factor 5.4

2000

Esteemed academic and industrial journal (est. 1994) that publishes seminal research into Virtual Reality, Augmented and Mixed Reality. It has gone from strength to strength under my stewardship and now has an impact factor of 5.4 https://www.springer.com/journal/10055/

Principal Mentor and Judge

2023

Investor Advisor

2020

Advisor To The Board

2018

Making contact sport safer and helping teams performance.

Mentor

2016

TechStars is a mentor led global accelerator program for startups that provides seed capital, office space. Fewer than 1% of the companies that apply to Techstars are accepted

Business Advisor

2019

Board Member

2023 - 2024

An AI Fintech redefining mortgage pricing and product management.

Executive Advisor

2018 - 2022