Non-Executive Director

Piers Linney

Piers Linney is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, media and communications. Piers is the Co-founder of Implement AI, which provides managed AI agents to SMEs. Piers is a well-known champion of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized businesses and a regular media commentator on radio and TV.

Piers is best known as a former Dragon investor on BBC1’s Dragons’ Den and from Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire. He has a professional background as a qualified lawyer specialised in venture capital , M&A investment banking at Credit Suisse and alternative asset fund management.

He has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential black Britons and in 2020 he was recognised as one of the UK’ s top 20 ethnic minority executives. Piers is an adviser to Sky and sits on its Diversity Advisory Council.