Ed is a Managing Director at Future Planet Capital where he leads the Global investment practice, manages the British Co-investment Fund, the Blue Ocean strategy and sits on the Investment Committees for the flagship Future Planet Capital funds and the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund. He is a Director at Captura, and has led investments into companies including PragmatIC Semiconductors, Xfuel, Regent Craft, Aquatic (Acq. Omen), Guideline 401k (Acq. Gusto), 44.01 and Vaccitech (NASDAQ) the Oxford spin-out behind the COVID-19 vaccine with 3 billion doses now made available worldwide.

As part of the founding team at Future Planet Capital, he helped grow the firm from 2 people and a $20M experiment fund to over half a billion in committed capital. Ed has previously been a Venture Fellow and Scout for a leading US deeptech accelerator and the UK's most active seed investor. Before Future Planet Capital he spent time researching molecular genetics at Hong Kong University and received a 1st (Hons) in Biological Sciences at Bristol University, where he was President of Bristol Think and joint first for the Liv Sidse Jansen Prize for his work into the impact of Climate Change on marine ecosystems.