Patrick Lord (Past Speaker)

Patrick LORD joined Truffle in 2015 as Investment Director, Partner and Blockchain specialist. He graduated with honours from Cambridge University. He then spent 12 years in strategy and management consulting at Accenture (2 years) and A.T. Kearney (10 years), working with executive leaders in large enterprises across multiple industries to deliver strategy and enterprise transformation services. 

As Web 2.0 and the Mobile Internet started to gain pace, he moved to Paris, completing a Masters with distinction in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ESCP Europe and then spending 5 years as an entrepreneur in digital, web and mobile internet startups. 

He then spent 2 years as M&A Program Manager at QuantumWave Capital, a boutique investment bank preparing deep-tech European IT companies for trade sales to European and US acquirers including the sale of Monoidics to Facebook and Crystal Semantics to WPP.