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Piers Linney
Born
(1971-02-15) 15 February 1971 (age 53)
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Nationality
British
Education
The University of Manchester
Occupation(s)
Businessman television personality
Known for
Dragons' Den The Secret Millionaire
Spouse
Tara Bishop
(m. 2003; div. 2018)[1]
Children
Tiger and Electra[1]
Website
www.pierslinney.com
Jonathan Piers Daniel Linney (born 15 February 1971, in Stoke-on-Trent[2][3][4]) is a British businessman and investor with a professional background in the City.[5] Linney has been recognised as one of the top 100 Black Britons and is known as a champion of entrepreneurship and growth businesses.
Linney is a non-executive director of the UK government-owned development bank, British Business Bank, which has facilitated over £12 billion[6] of financing for UK small and medium-sized businesses and also operates the StartUp Loan Company and British Patient Capital, a £2.5bn fund launched in 2018.
He was the co-CEO and owner of Genesis Communications [7] and was the co-CEO of cloud-based[7] IT business Outsourcery. He is best known for being a "dragon" on the BBC Two business series Dragons' Den (known as Shark Tank in the USA) from 2013 to 2015.
Linney also appeared on the Channel 4 series The Secret Millionaire in 2011, where he worked in Wolverhampton at a young offenders' institution.
In November 2018, Linney was named in the top 20 of Financial Times's list of the top 100 minority ethnic leaders in technology.[8] Linney was also named in the FT as one of the top 100 BAME Leaders in Tech.[9]
Linney is also content creator and public speaker focused on supporting entrepreneurs with ambitions to start-up or grow their businesses as part of his #ScaleUp initiative.[10]
^ abDaisy Buchanan (11 August 2013). "Dragon's Den Piers Linney: 10 things you need to know about new Dragon". Mirror Online. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^Piers Linney biography at Dragons' Den, BBC Two. Archived 3 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^Findmypast.
^"Piers Linney Net Worth", Spear's.
^"Piers Linney – British Business Bank". British Business Bank. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^"| British Business Bank". British Business Bank. British Business Bank. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ ab"Piers Linney on the acquisition of Genesis Communications". Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^"The UK's top 100 black and minority ethnic leaders in technology". Financial Times. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^"Top 10: The most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK". Financial Times. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^Piers Linney (18 November 2018), What is #ScaleUp?, retrieved 26 November 2018
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