Tom Foster-Carter
Digital Economy Council Member at Department for Digital
Tom Foster-Carter
Digital Economy Council Member at Department for Digital
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Digital Economy Council Member
2022 - Current
Appointed to the non-statutory advisory committee of independent members to provide advice to the UK government with the goal of making the UK the number one nation for technology in the world.
Co-Founder CEO
2020
Building a personal grocery shopping assistant to help families get fed effortlessly. Sign up at: http://lollipopai.com/
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2020
Founders Academy is a 9-month "alternative-MBA" programme, co-founded by Brent Hoberman, that helps ambitious professionals to rebuild their skillset in order to enter the tech startup ecosystem. MBAs usually require participants to have significant financial reserves (or debt) to pay for them; Founders Academy is free thanks to the generosity of our exceptional London tech sponsor companies.
COO
2017 - 2020
Co-Founder
2015 - 2017
Strategy & Product Management - Consulting
2015 - 2015
Founding COO
2013 - 2015
Management Team executive at high-growth London FinTech with ambitions to disrupt children's banking in the UK and beyond. Series A funded (VCs - Index, Horizons) with $10M raised to date.
Case Team Lead
2007 - 2013
CEO-level strategy projects across wide variety of industries including: - Technology (e.g. European strategy for top 3 global technology manufacturer) - FS (e.g. 2 restructures of failed Irish banks) - Private Equity (e.g. commercial due diligence for 8 major deals) - Biotechnology (e.g. anti-lymphoma drug strategy for major global biotech)
Business Analyst
2005 - 2007
Mix of technology strategy and operational consulting projects primarily for FS Retail Banking clients
Project Manager
2002 - 2004
Strategic marketing and event campaigns for a number of top 20 pharmaceutical clients