The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Douglas Hansen-Luke, executive chairman, Future Planet Capital
The fund set up by global innovation platform Future Planet Capital (FPC) at the beginning of this year has attracted a significant level of support from institutions and investors around the world.
Led by executive chairman Douglas Hansen-Luke, FPC’s stated mission is to connect the “world’s largest investors to the best minds in order to address global challenges”. The fund has to date received commitments from cornerstone investor asset management firm TW & Partners – which has pledged an initial $30m, potentially rising to $200m – and the local government pension scheme Royal Berkshire Pension Fund.
To identify investment opportunities, FPC has a network of advisers that include institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, University of California Berkeley, Tsinghua, Oxford and Cambridge as well as Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hansen-Luke helped FPC launch the $39m British Innovation Fund, in partnership with asset manager Milltrust International Group, in early 2017. The fund focuses on commercialisation of UK university research.
