Jon runs The Difference Engine on a day to day basis. Prior to this, he
was the Investment Manager at the Design and Creative Fund for North
East Finance. Jon has spent most of the last ten years working in and
around start-ups; both for advisory firms and venture capital backed
start-ups, including an Oxford university spin-out. Jon started his
career at Arthur Andersen including a secondment to Melbourne,
Australia. Having recently completed the conversion of a
Northumberland barn, Jon knows far too much about sceptic tanks than he
really cares for.