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Jo Oliver

Jo focuses on assessing potential investee companies, deal structuring and negotiation and portfolio management and has overall responsibility for the Octopus Venture Partners.

He is an entrepreneur who has extensive experience of working with and investing in smaller companies, and has been a member of the Octopus Investor Group for a number of years. He has founded several businesses and has also held senior roles in equity research at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. He also previously worked at Arthur Anderson.

Jo graduated with BSc (Hons) in Natural Sciences from Durham University. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

He represents Octopus on the boards of 21Net, iProfile, GetOptics and AQS (Soil Xchange).

"We have always found Octopus to be straight, honest and easy to deal with. I feel extremely comfortable talking about all aspects of our business with them, and can always depend on intelligent and direct feedback."

Richard Glasson, Gyro International

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"We have always found Octopus to be straight, honest and easy to deal with. I feel extremely comfortable talking about all aspects of our business with them, and can always depend on intelligent and direct feedback."