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C21’s Big Picture is an ongoing initiative to support positive change in and through the content business across four key areas of focus: inclusivity & diversity, sustainability & environment, business practice & operations, and content & storytelling.

Eric Collins

CEO & founding member, Impact X Capital Partners

CEO and founding member, Impact X Capital Partners

Collins is a serial entrepreneur, investor, technology executive and host of Channel 4 business show, The Money Maker, which is based on the highly successful US show The Profit on CNBC.

Collins has spent much of his career building the value of digital companies through innovative strategies at public and private companies including AOL, TimeWarner, Tegic/Nuance Communications, MobilePosse, SwiftKey/Microsoft and most recently, Touch Surgery, where he was COO. He sits on the boards of companies in San Francisco and London, including Tech Nation. In 2011, President Obama appointed him to the Small Business Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities.

Collins has been featured on Bloomberg, CNN, Dow Jones, The Times, The Guardian, BBC Radio, ITV News, Sky News, and several other media outlets and podcasts, and is regularly invited to be a keynote speaker or panellist for leading companies, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Paramount, Aviva, and US Embassy London, as well as events, in the UK and internationally.

Collins is also a brand ambassador for luxury car manufacturer, Audi, and the youth charity The Prince’s Trust.

In 2018, The Financial Times named him among the UK’s top 100 BAME leaders in technology. Since 2019, he has been voted one of the most influential Black people in Britain on The Powerlist.

COMPANY INFORMATION

Impact X Capital Partners

Impact X Capital Partners is a double bottom-line venture capital firm that invests in under-represented innovators in Europe, focusing on growth stage companies in three distinct sectors: digital and technology, health, education and lifestyle; and media and entertainment. The London headquartered company invests in under-represented entrepreneurs, particularly women and Black founders, in the UK and Europe. Its investments include insurance firm Marshmallow, recently named as the UK’s second Black unicorn; device subscription start-up, Raylo; menopause/perimenopause start-up Health & Her; and Black hair care start-up Afrocenchix. The company’s founding members include Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox and the first black woman to head a Fortune 500 company; Sir Lenny Henry; and Ric Lewis, chairman of Tristan Capital Partners, a London-based real estate investment firm.