Justin Cooke

I am a Venture Partner at VC investor Northzone, a Non-Executive Director of FutureLearn, one of the world's largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Platforms, Chairman of Big Clever Learning and a Member of the No. 10 Downing Street and The British Museum's Digital Advisory Board. Prior to Northzone I was the CEO and Founder of POSSIBLE UK, WPP Digital’s largest global agency. I am also the former Chair and now an Ambassador of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), the industry body for everyone working in digital Britain. I discovered digital media while studying Quasi-Theatrical Leisure and Computers as Theatre while studying Drama at the University of Manchester. After graduating with honours I worked for the BBC, Universal Music and United News and Media before I Co-founded global digital agency Fortune Cookie in 1997. I secured venture capital funding, grew the business to 200 people and $25m of revenue before selling to WPP in 2012. For two years I served on the Board of EPiServer – the world’s fastest growing content management and community platform until its sale to investment bank, IK Partners. In September 2012 I was invited onto the Digital Advisory Board of the British Museum and was recently appointed by the British Government as a Digital Capabilities Reviewer. Wired Magazine listed me in its Top 100 survey of Britain's experienced digital power-brokers. Econsultancy ranked me the second most influential person in UK digital and in 2013 I was inducted into the British Digital Hall of Fame.