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United Kingdom · Innovation Intrapreneurship · Director/VP (16-20 years)

Director of Innovation

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandDirector/VP (16-20 years)
  • Direct reports4-8 reports
  • Reports toChief Innovation Officer (CINO) or Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
  • UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as VP, New Ventures · Head of Corporate Incubation · Innovation Portfolio Lead

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1What this role really is

This role is all about shaping where our company goes next. You'll be the one looking over the horizon, deciding which new ideas get our money and time, and which ones we need to let go of. It's a big job with big stakes, really.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

MiroExpert

Strategically embedding Miro into the entire innovation lifecycle, designing complex multi-day workshops, and integrating it with other tools for seamless collaboration across the portfolio.

FigmaAdvanced

Overseeing the prototyping process across multiple ventures, ensuring alignment with brand standards and technical feasibility, and championing design systems for rapid iteration.

NotionExpert

Implementing Notion enterprise-wide for comprehensive innovation portfolio management, building executive dashboards for visibility, and ensuring robust knowledge sharing across teams.

Typeform / SurveyMonkeyAdvanced

Developing the overall user research strategy for the innovation department, selecting appropriate tools and methodologies, and ensuring actionable insights are derived from all research activities.

Excel (Advanced)Expert

Auditing complex financial models for new ventures, stress-testing assumptions, and connecting Excel models to enterprise data sources for automated, C-suite-ready updates.

Aha! / ProductboardExpert

Managing the entire innovation portfolio, prioritising initiatives based on strategic fit and potential, allocating resources, and reporting progress and strategic alignment to the C-suite.

Anaplan / PigmentAdvanced

Building and presenting sophisticated financial models for new ventures, performing scenario analysis, and aligning financial projections with corporate finance for internal funding rounds.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Innovation Concept FundingProposes initial budget for specific tasks to supervisor.Recommends budget for a workstream; requires manager approval.Approves project-level budgets up to £5K; recommends larger budgets to Director.
Strategic Direction of a VentureExecutes tasks based on defined strategy.Proposes tactical adjustments within a defined strategy.Defines and adjusts the strategy for a single innovation concept; consults with Director on major pivots.
Team Leadership & HiringNo direct reports.Informal guidance to new joiners.Mentors 0-2 junior analysts; provides input on performance reviews.
External PartnershipsResearches potential partners.Initial contact with potential partners, under supervision.Leads discussions with specific partners for a concept; seeks Director approval for agreements.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Value of Innovation Pipeline
Projected revenue or cost savings from all active innovation concepts in the portfolio.
Target · Achieve >£100M projected value within a 3-year horizon.

In Q2, your portfolio shows £120M in projected revenue from 3 new ventures and £15M in projected savings from 2 process innovations, hitting well above target.

Successful Transitions to Business Units
Number of validated concepts successfully handed over to a core business unit for scaling, complete with funding and operational plan.
Target · Minimum of 1-2 new ventures transitioned per year.

Last year, you successfully moved the 'Subscription Box for SMEs' concept into the Small Business unit, which is now on track for £5M revenue in its first year.

Return on Innovation Investment (ROII)
The financial return generated by scaled innovations relative to the investment made in the innovation pipeline.
Target · Achieve a positive ROII within a 3-5 year window for the overall portfolio.

After 4 years, the total revenue from innovations launched under your tenure is £50M, against a total innovation budget of £30M, showing a healthy ROII.

Experiment Velocity & Learning Rate
How quickly we're running experiments and, crucially, how much we're learning from them across the portfolio.
Target · Average of 10-15 significant experiments run per month across all concepts, with clear validation/invalidation outcomes.

In April, your teams ran 12 A/B tests and 3 user pilots, leading to 7 invalidated hypotheses and 8 validated ones, informing key pivots for two major concepts.

Strategic Impact & Market Position
The extent to which new ventures launched under your leadership create new market opportunities or significantly enhance our competitive advantage.
  • External recognition (e.g., industry awards, media mentions for new products), C-suite commentary on innovation's role in strategy, competitor reactions to our new offerings. Are we seen as an innovator in the market? Are we actually creating new markets?
Organisational Innovation Capability
How well we're building a culture and processes that support ongoing innovation across the company, beyond just your immediate team.
  • Increased internal submissions for new ideas, successful cross-functional collaboration on innovation projects, positive feedback from business unit leaders on the quality of concepts handed over, and the adoption of innovation methodologies (like Lean Startup) outside your direct team.
Talent Development & Retention
Your ability to attract, develop, and retain top innovation talent, including your direct reports and their teams.
  • Low attrition rates within your direct and indirect teams, successful internal promotions, positive feedback in 360-degree reviews regarding your leadership and mentorship, and the ability to recruit high-calibre individuals for open roles.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Creating the Future

You're energised by the idea of building something entirely new for the company, seeing your strategic decisions lead to tangible new products or services. You're always scanning the horizon for the next big trend.

Spending your lunch break reading about a new AI application in an unrelated industry, then sketching out how it could apply to our business.

Solving Big, Messy Problems

You thrive on tackling complex, ill-defined challenges that have no obvious answer. The harder the problem, the more engaged you become, especially when it involves navigating organisational hurdles.

Successfully getting three different business units to agree on a shared problem statement for a new venture, despite their initial conflicting priorities.

Empowering Talent

You get a real kick out of seeing your team members grow, take ownership of their concepts, and learn from their successes and failures. You're a natural mentor and advocate for your people.

Celebrating when a Lead Concept Architect you've mentored successfully pitches for significant internal funding, even if it means less direct involvement for you.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Corporate Antibody' Effect: Watching genuinely promising concepts get slowly suffocated by bureaucratic processes, risk-averse committees, and departments protecting their existing turf.
  • Hypocrisy of 'Fail Fast': Enduring lectures from leadership about the importance of experimentation, only to see the first team with a failed pilot get their budget cut or be publicly sidelined.
  • The Battle for Resources: Constantly having to justify your existence and fight for budget against established business units that can point to predictable, quarterly revenue.
  • Pilot Purgatory: The soul-crushing experience of running a highly successful pilot that proves your concept, only to see it get stuck for 18 months with no decision to scale or shut it down.
  • Explaining Uncertainty to Executives: The repetitive, uphill battle of explaining to leaders trained in execution and predictability that 'we don't know yet' is an acceptable answer and that the goal of an experiment is learning, not guaranteed success.
  • The 'Swoop and Poop': When an executive who hasn't been involved for months suddenly appears, offers uninformed opinions that derail the project, and then disappears again.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable, linear career path with clear-cut milestones.
  • The comfort of working solely on well-defined problems with existing solutions.
  • A role where all your ideas are immediately embraced and funded without significant internal advocacy.
  • A quiet, solitary work environment; you'll be interacting with people constantly.

6Who you work with

You'll directly influence the company's long-term growth trajectory and market positioning by identifying, incubating, and scaling new business concepts. Your decisions on resource allocation across the innovation portfolio will determine future revenue streams and competitive advantage. Honestly, you're building the future here.

Inside the business
  • C-Suite (CEO, CFO, COO)
  • Heads of Business Units (e.g., Head of Retail Banking, Head of Digital)
  • Legal & Compliance
  • Finance & Treasury
  • Marketing & Brand Leadership
Outside the business
  • Venture Capital partners
  • Strategic technology partners
  • Industry analysts
  • Key customers for new ventures

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record (12+ years) of successfully leading and scaling innovation initiatives or new ventures within a complex organisation.
  • Demonstrable experience managing multi-million pound budgets and making high-stakes investment decisions for new products or services.
  • Experience building and leading high-performing teams, including other managers or senior specialists.
  • A strong portfolio of launched products, services, or ventures that have generated significant business impact.
  • Extensive experience presenting strategic recommendations and performance updates to C-suite executives and/or Board members.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

AI Product Management & Ethics

Many future innovations will be AI-first. As a Director, you need to understand the unique challenges of AI product development, from data governance to model explainability and ethical implications. You'll be making calls on what AI ventures we pursue.

AI model lifecycle (training, deployment, monitori · Data privacy and bias in AI algorithms · Explainable AI (XAI) and model interpretability · Regulatory landscape for AI (e.g., EU AI Act) · Responsible AI frameworks

  • This quarter: Complete an online course on 'AI for Business Leaders' or 'Responsible AI'.
  • Next 6 months: Work closely with our Data Science or AI Ethics team on one of your innovation projects; understand their challenges.
  • Next 12 months: Develop internal guidelines or principles for ethical AI development within our innovation pipeline.
  • Ongoing: Participate in industry forums or discussions on AI governance and ethics.

Quick win: Read a few articles on 'AI hallucinations' and 'data bias' to grasp the practical challenges. Ask your team about the ethical implications of their current AI concepts.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry conferences (e.g., Innovate Finance, TechCrunch Disrupt, Web Summit) to stay abreast of market trends and network with peers.
  • Participate in executive education programmes focused on corporate venturing, strategic innovation, or digital transformation.
  • Engage in thought leadership by writing articles, speaking at events, or contributing to industry whitepapers on innovation best practices.
  • Mentor aspiring intrapreneurs or startup founders, giving back to the ecosystem and refining your own leadership skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

The pace of technological change, particularly with AI, means traditional market research is too slow. Directors need to use AI to predict future trends and identify disruptive opportunities before they become obvious. Those who don't will simply be reacting.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Lead innovation within an organisationNCFE · covers 1 of 6 standardsLevel 7
  2. Encourage innovation in your teamPearson EDI · covers 3 of 6 standardsLevel 3
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The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

The pace of technological change, particularly with AI, means traditional market research is too slow. Directors need to use AI to predict future trends and identify disruptive opportunities before they become obvious. Those who don't will simply be reacting.

  • Predictive analytics for market shifts
  • AI-powered trend spotting (e.g., using LLMs to ana
  • Scenario planning with generative AI
  • Ethical considerations of AI in strategic decision

Venture Capital & Corporate Venturing Acumen

As companies increasingly look externally for innovation, understanding the venture capital landscape, how to structure corporate venture capital (CVC) deals, and how to effectively partner with startups will be crucial. You'll be expected to speak the language of VCs.

  • Venture deal structures (seed, Series A, B, etc.)
  • Term sheets and valuation methodologies for startu
  • Minority investments vs. full acquisitions
  • Building and managing a corporate venture fund
  • Post-investment integration and support for startu

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Lean Startup Methodology (Expert)
  • Design Thinking (Expert)
  • Business Model Canvas / Value Proposition Canvas (Expert)
  • Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework (Advanced)
  • Market Sizing & Competitive Landscaping (Expert)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Principal Intrapreneur / Head of New Ventures

    3-5 years at that level

    Skills to master

    • Proven success in launching and scaling multiple internal ventures, managing P&L for new business lines, and building high-performing venture teams. You'll need to demonstrate a consistent ability to secure internal funding and navigate corporate politics.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully launched at least two new ventures that generated >£5M in annual revenue.
    • Consistently secured internal funding rounds against stiff competition.
    • Recognised as a strong leader and mentor within the innovation function.
  2. 2

    Senior Director / VP of Product (with Innovation focus)

    4-6 years at that level

    Skills to master

    • Deep expertise in product strategy, managing large product portfolios, and driving product-led growth. You'd have demonstrated a strong ability to innovate within existing product lines or launch entirely new ones, often with a focus on emerging technologies.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Managed a product portfolio with >£50M annual revenue.
    • Led the development and launch of a significant new product category.
    • Proven ability to integrate new technologies (e.g., AI) into product roadmaps.
  3. 3

    Strategic Consultant (focused on Innovation/Growth)

    5-8 years at a senior consulting level

    Skills to master

    • Experience advising multiple large corporate clients on innovation strategy, new market entry, and digital transformation. You'd have a broad view of industry best practices and a strong ability to influence senior leadership.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Led major innovation strategy engagements for FTSE 100 clients.
    • Developed and implemented new innovation frameworks for large organisations.
    • Strong network within the innovation ecosystem.

11Where this role leads

The long view:The path from Director of Innovation is rich with possibilities, whether you aspire to C-suite leadership, building new businesses, or shaping the future of entire industries. It's all about what excites you next.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Director of Innovation is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Lead innovation within an organisationLevel 7

Applied to your work in Director of Innovation

This unit aims to equip learners with the skills to analyse innovation practices, design innovation processes, support the implementation of ideas, and review performance to foster long-term organisational success.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Director of Innovation

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Value of Innovation PipelineProjected revenue or cost savings from all active innovation concepts in the portfolio.In Q2, your portfolio shows £120M in projected revenue from 3 new ventures and £15M in projected savings from 2 process innovations, hitting well above target.Achieve >£100M projected value within a 3-year horizon.
  • Successful Transitions to Business UnitsNumber of validated concepts successfully handed over to a core business unit for scaling, complete with funding and operational plan.Last year, you successfully moved the 'Subscription Box for SMEs' concept into the Small Business unit, which is now on track for £5M revenue in its first year.Minimum of 1-2 new ventures transitioned per year.
  • Return on Innovation Investment (ROII)The financial return generated by scaled innovations relative to the investment made in the innovation pipeline.After 4 years, the total revenue from innovations launched under your tenure is £50M, against a total innovation budget of £30M, showing a healthy ROII.Achieve a positive ROII within a 3-5 year window for the overall portfolio.
  • Experiment Velocity & Learning RateHow quickly we're running experiments and, crucially, how much we're learning from them across the portfolio.In April, your teams ran 12 A/B tests and 3 user pilots, leading to 7 invalidated hypotheses and 8 validated ones, informing key pivots for two major concepts.Average of 10-15 significant experiments run per month across all concepts, with clear validation/invalidation outcomes.
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Director of Innovation to Chief Innovation Officer (CINO), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)→ your design
Where this takes you

The path from Director of Innovation is rich with possibilities, whether you aspire to C-suite leadership, building new businesses, or shaping the future of entire industries. It's all about what excites you next.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Director of Innovation
  • Lean Startup Methodology (Expert)
  • Design Thinking (Expert)
  • Business Model Canvas / Value Proposition Canvas (Expert)
  • Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework (Advanced)
  • Market Sizing & Competitive Landscaping (Expert)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Director of Innovation is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Chief Innovation Officer (CINO)

    3-5 years in the Director role

    From L6 to L7

    • Developing and managing a corporate venture fund
    • Shaping organisational structure for innovation
    • Leading major multi-year transformation programmes
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, as a Director of Innovation, your time is gold. You're constantly juggling strategic oversight, team leadership, and C-suite communications. The good news? AI isn't just for junior analysts anymore; it's a game-changer for senior leaders too.

Imagine cutting through the noise faster, getting sharper insights, and crafting board-ready presentations in a fraction of the time. Our internal AI Productivity Hub is packed with tools and guides specifically designed to amplify your strategic output, freeing you up to focus on what truly matters: driving the future of our business.

Portfolio Performance Synthesis

Feed weekly performance data from Aha! or Anaplan into a custom LLM. Ask it to generate a concise summary of key trends, emerging risks, and opportunities across your entire innovation portfolio, highlighting areas needing your immediate attention. It'll even draft bullet points for your next C-suite update.

Strategic Scenario Planning

Use advanced AI models (like GPT-4 with specific plugins) to run 'what-if' scenarios for new ventures. Input market data, competitive moves, and internal capabilities. Get AI to generate potential outcomes, identify blind spots, and suggest strategic pivots for your concepts. It's like having a super-smart sparring partner for your strategy sessions.

Board-Ready Narrative Crafting

Provide an LLM with your latest innovation portfolio review, key metrics, and strategic recommendations. Ask it to draft a compelling, concise narrative for a 10-minute board presentation, tailored for impact. It can even suggest visuals or refine your messaging for different executive audiences. Say goodbye to endless wordsmithing.

Partner & Acquisition Scouting

Deploy AI agents to continuously monitor the startup ecosystem, venture funding rounds, and M&A news for companies that align with our strategic innovation thesis. Get curated lists of potential partners or acquisition targets, complete with initial due diligence points, saving your team hundreds of research hours.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Director of Innovation?

Common routes in include Principal Intrapreneur / Head of New Ventures (3-5 years at that level), Senior Director / VP of Product (with Innovation focus) (4-6 years at that level) and Strategic Consultant (focused on Innovation/Growth) (5-8 years at a senior consulting level). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Director of Innovation progress to?

This role can lead on to Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) (3-5 years in the Director role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Director of Innovation in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Director of Innovation?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Strategic Foresight and Venture Capital & Corporate Venturing Acumen. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Director of Innovation, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 6 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Director of Innovation: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Innovation Intrapreneurship

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

Your skills in identifying market opportunities, building new business models, and leading teams through ambiguity are highly transferable. You could easily move into similar innovation leadership roles in other industries (e.g., FinTech, Healthcare, FMCG) or even transition into venture capital as an Operating Partner or Investment Director.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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