For the last 11 years Hugh has worked in the early-stage, funding and business development arena around Cambridge and the east of England. He grew a team within NW Brown, which spun out to IQ Capital, which included managing a business angels network (Great Eastern Investment Forum) and £40m of discretionary investment capital, with now in excess of 40 portfolio companies, for some of which he still sits on the board. Hugh is personally very involved with supporting the environmental technology sector.In his spare time he is Chairman of Cambridge Cleantech as well as being involved with several other energy/CSR/cleantech activities while in his “day-job” he helps a range of mostly early-stage technology companies to grow up.