Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Kerry Ritz is an Non Executive Director at DSX Cloud and Libetel and, Trustee at The Rainmaker FoundationHe is also a Board advisor to SeaB Energy.

He is also a a mentor and advisor at Techstars, Wayra, MassChallenge and Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in London.

Kerry works with early-stage business in the following areas: CEO support (everything to do with running the business); international growth and expansion; market or investor positioning; setting up and running a Board; interactions with investors (pre and post fundraising); sales, business development and marketing.

Kerry has a broad range of international experience with both early stage companies and corporates.

He has worked in a range of industries in some of the most challenging markets in the world: Russia, Brazil, Indonesia.

Most recently, he was Managing Director of MassChallenge UK, the world’s most startup friendly accelerator. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of FTSE 250 Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, where he was responsible for marketing, sales, customer service, fulfillment, marketing technology, product management, and customer insight.

He has also been CEO of Palringo and VP Business Development for EVRYTHNG, both innovative early-stage VC-backed companies.

Kerry has a track record of bringing innovative and disruptive businesses to market: he was the President of Vonage UK and was one of the Founding Directors and one of the first 20 employees of “3”, the first 3g mobile operator in Europe.

He has been successful in developing international commercial strategies (marketing, sales, distribution channels) that includes countries, markets, products, and customers especially in emerging markets.