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Eric Collins the technology space. He sits on the board of companies Business, Corporates, Financiers & Entrepreneurs

CEO and Founding Member, Impact X in San Francisco and London and acts as an advisor to
companies in the US, India and the UK.
He supports civic activities. In London, he serves on
London-based Eric is a technology executive who has the board of Autograph ABP and Southwark Cathedral’s
spent a career building the value of digital companies Council and in the US he has been a board member of
through innovative strategies. Washington Performing Arts.
He has done this at public and private companies He also donates time and resources to many other
including AOL, TimeWarner, Tegic/Nuance important contemporary causes, including the
Communications, MobilePosse, SwiftKey/Microsoft and Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of African-American
most recently Touch Surgery where he was COO. History and Culture; The National Museum of African Art;
In 2018, Eric was part of a prominent group of black Toronto’s Power Plant Gallery; and Philomela’s Chorus (a
European and US serial entrepreneurs, institutional programme that helps under-represented voices, especially
investors, investment bankers, corporate leaders and young Black British women, produce films).
entertainers to found Impact X. President Obama appointed Eric to the Small Business
The company is double bottom line venture capital firm Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities
that invests in under-represented innovators in Europe, and as an evaluator for White House Fellows applicants.
focusing on growth stage companies in three distinct Eric holds degrees from Princeton University and
sectors: digital and technology; health, education and Harvard Law School.
lifestyle; and media and entertainment. In November 2018 The Financial Times named him
Eric is also a sought-after board member and advisor in among the UK’s top 100 BAME leaders in technology.

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