Spectrum Venture Management (SVM) is a UK based venture capital business which focuses on the education and sustainability sectors.

SVM’s investors include the Guardian Media Group, Kingston Communications and Syntek Capital (a pan-European venture capital business controlled by the former Italian Education Minister, Mrs Letizia Moratti).

SVM’s founding CEO is Ross Fitzgerald, a Harvard, McKinsey-trained venture capitalist, who established Telewest Communications’ Internet Service Provider.

Ross Fitzgerald is on the Board of a number of education and sustainability businesses and non-profit organisations including:

• Founding chairman of ‘Explore Learning’, a national network of after-school education centres aimed at primary school children
• Director of Pratt Industries, one of the world’s largest paper recycling and packaging companies
• Development Cabinet member of The Climate Group, an international non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change
• Trustee of Enterprise Education Trust, a non-profit organisation that introduces young people to business and entrepreneurship

Ross Fitzgerald is also a UK-based international representative of Muhammad Ali.

SVM was formed in partnership with the founders of Spectrum Strategy Consultants – Janice Hughes (formerly of Booz Allen and Kip Meek (formerly of McKinsey).

For more information e-mail Ross Fitzgerald at ross.fitzgerald@spectrumvm.com

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