Joe White MBE appointed new UK Consul-General in SF, with new Technology Envoy role

Joe White MBE appointed new UK Consul-General in SF, with new Technology Envoy role

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/joe-white-mbe-appointed-new-uk-consul-general-in-sf-with-new-technology-envoy-role/

Joe White MBE — a General Partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock backed early-stage deep tech fund — is leaving after being appointed as Her Majesty’s Consul-General, San Francisco, and Technology Envoy to the United States in a new, combined and powerful, role for the UK government.

One of the key figures from the last two decades of the tech industry in the UK, most recently White has been co-chair of GBx, a curated network of British entrepreneurs; a non-executive director for the UK’s Behavioural Insights Team where he advised on social impact technology products; and a former co-founder of Moonfruit, a website and ecommerce platform hosting 7 million sites, which was acquired by Yell.com in 2012. He received an MBE from HM Queen in 2017 for Services to Technology Businesses.