John Pluthero

[1] He held senior positions at Dixons, Bass PLC and was the founder of Freeserve, Europe's first dotcom IPO, listing on the London Stock Exchange a year after start-up at a valuation of £1.5Bn.

After the sale of Freeserve to France Telecom he was asked by Archie Norman and a consortium of banks to lead the turnaround of Energis after its financial collapse.

In 2006, after 4 years the business was sold to Cable and Wireless with restored growth, profitability and cashflow.

Pluthero has subsequently advised on several start-ups in the tech space and has held chairman and Board positions at Essensys, CODE Investing and MyAppConverter.

He founded an Art charity, Abstract Critical, with renowned British sculptor Robin Greenwood.