Piers Linney

Biography

Piers Linney is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, media, communications, and additive manufacturing. He is a co-founder of Atherton Bikes, the world-leading producer of additive manufactured mountain bikes that won the World Championshps 2023 (1st and 2nd).

He is a co-founder of Implement AI​, a next generation technology partner focused on intelligent business transformation through the power of artificial intelligence, and co-host of its leading AI podcast.

Piers is a well-known champion of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized businesses and a regular media commentator on radio and TV. ​

Piers is best known as a former Dragon investor on BBC1’s Dragons’ Den and from Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire.

He has a professional background as a qualified lawyer specialised in venture capital , M&A investment banking at Credit Suisse and alternative asset fund management, and was a Non-executive Director of the UK government’s development bank British Business Bank during the roll out of the £90bn Covid business support loan schemes.

Piers was also a former Trustee of Nesta the UK’s largest innovation agency with a £500m endowment.

He has been recognised as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential black Britons and in 2020 he was recognised as one of the UK’ s top 20 ethnic minority executives. Piers is an adviser to Sky and sits on its Diversity Advisory Council.