Sam Gyimah

I am a board director, strategic advisor, and venture partner, operating at the intersection of private capital, business and government.
I draw on insights and a toolkit developed from my decade-long experience at the forefront of politics as a lawmaker (Member of Parliament) and Government Minister, and a decade in investment banking and business before politics.
Experience in the public and private sector has given me perspectives on the complex interaction between geopolitics, high-level policy making and financing the innovation economy.
Investment Banking - Goldman Sachs International; board director and advisor.
Subsidiary board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, providing a broad range of financial services to clients worldwide, and regulated by the Bank of England and the FCA.
Audit Committee member.
Private equity and venture capital- Renaissance Learning Inc, board director.
Owned by Blackstone, TPG, and Francisco Partners, Renaissance is a technology provider to 41,000 pre K-12 schools globally, and used by 20 million students.
Corporate strategy to help accelerate growth of the business is my focus.
Lakestar, Venture Partner / Advisor (part time) one of the largest European growth venture funds, where I focus on fund development and investment in the private/public and climate tech spaces.
Strategic advisor to Blume Equity, an award-winning, female-led growth equity fund investing in climate tech.
I began my career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, where I worked on UK corporate finance and M&A advisory transactions, before joining the Equities Business, after which I was an angel investor in and developed a number of early-stage businesses.
Born in the UK , and brought up in Ghana, I read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, at Oxford University, where I was elected President of the Oxford Union.