Albert's path into venture was unconventional. He began his career as a ballet dancer before trading ballet shoes for a computer, studying Computer Science and Philosophy of Science at University College London, obtaining a 1st class degree with honours. That combination, of technical rigour and philosophical inquiry would later shape his approach to business building: structured, systems-driven, and intellectually grounded.

In his first startup, Albert built a platform that became the educational and infrastructural backbone for more than 350,000 small businesses annually. He went on to become a multi-exited entrepreneur, raising hundreds of millions of pounds across dozens of companies. Following these exits, he moved into angel investing, but quickly grew frustrated with the passive, capital-allocation model of early-stage investment. Instead, he returned to hands-on company building.

Albert founded Tramlines to address what he saw as a systemic failure in venture capital: brilliant domain experts, often underrepresented by traditional VC networks, were building commercially powerful businesses without receiving the structural support or access to capital they deserved. In an era of commoditised technology and rapidly advancing AI, he believes domain expertise, operational excellence, and access to distribution matter more than ever.

Under his leadership and based on his previous 6 years of consulting, Tramlines has developed a structured validation framework and a 24-month pathway designed to move companies from pre-seed to scalable commercial model with discipline and capital efficiency. The firm focuses on early profitability, measurable traction, and faster liquidity events, without sacrificing long-term upside.

Beyond Tramlines, Albert sits on an advisory board for HMRC, has served as a judge for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and has been a director and chair across many companies spanning fintech, infrastructure, AI, and enterprise services.

At his core, Albert is driven by one thing: building. He is passionate about turning ideas into institutions, infrastructure into advantage, and ambition into durable companies. His philosophy is simple: work hard, be kind, build properly, and let the results compound.

Craig is best known as the founding CEO of Metro Bank, the first new UK bank to be granted a licence in over a century, a pivotal moment that catalysed the broader rise of challenger banks.

Over a decade as CEO, Craig took Metro Bank from concept to reality, navigating the complex authorisation process, leading a successful £1.6bn IPO onto the FTSE 250, raising over £1bn in total equity, and building a bank with more than £20bn in assets, 4,500 colleagues, and over 2.5 million customers.

In his recent portfolio career, Craig is also an investor, adviser, and board member across the startup ecosystem. He brings formidable board and NED experience. He is Chair of vertical SaaS platform Action Apps, Chair of pan-European bank RiverBank, a member of the Admiral Money board, and previously served on the board of The CityUK and chaired UK Finance's Challenger Bank Board and later the Mid-Sized Bank Board. Tramlines is now priority as he winds down other activities.

A cloud technology pioneer, Glen was at the forefront of cloud technology development in Europe and one of the first four employees at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is a multi-disciplinary technical expert with deep experience in Cloud, DevOps, databases, physical and virtual networks, serverless and quantum.

Today, Glen is recognised as one of the UK's foremost technology leaders as the current National Technology Officer for Microsoft UK, where his team leads on the safe deployment of Generative AI applications. A globally recognised expert on cybersecurity and technology compliance, Glen regularly advises the UK Government on AI adoption, technology strategy, regulation and legislation. He sits on several technical advisory boards advocating for trustworthy, transparent technology adoption.

Glen is a leading voice in the UK's AI ecosystem, frequently appearing as a keynote speaker at large-scale events such as the AI Summit and round tables and advisory group gatherings at Number 10 and Whitehall. He is the co-founder of the Centre for GenAIOps and a seasoned angel investor.

Andrew Winters has spent over 20 years at the intersection of technology, risk, and corporate strategy, working across PwC and Deloitte. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, spending 11 years specialising in technology risk and security, before joining Deloitte UK as a partner in 2007 where he led the firm's regional Risk Advisory practice and sat on their national leadership team.

In 2018, he was appointed Managing Partner, Risk Advisory at Deloitte Switzerland, joining the Swiss Executive team. In that role, he led Deloitte's risk advisory operations across the country, overseeing strategic, regulatory, financial, operational, and cyber risk management for global and national organisations. He was also the lead client service partner for ABB, the multibillion-dollar Swiss engineering and automation conglomerate, advising on tech and digital transformation at enterprise scale.

Andrew spent 5.5 years in the Middle East, where he built deep connections with family offices and sovereign investors, giving him a distinctive lens on cross-border capital and commercial partnerships.

At Tramlines, Andrew’s focus is on commercial strategy and enterprise partnership readiness for the companies in our accelerator program. He brings PLC-level pitch experience from years representing multibillion-dollar companies, and takes a task-oriented approach: clear objectives, quick alignment, precision execution.

Daniel is a veteran financial journalist with 15 years of experience covering asset management, startups, venture capital, and fintech. As a founding partner and Editor-in-Chief of Europe's leading fintech publication, he has the direct experience of building a business from its early stages right through to exit. AltFi reached 2 million annual readers before its acquisition by a family office in 2020.

Daniel has been at the forefront of Europe's fintech boom, profiling thousands of founders, investors, and startups, including early coverage of Revolut, Monzo, and Starling Bank. His work has also appeared in The Times, BBC, Reuters, and other major outlets, and in 2023, he launched an investment-grade fintech index that outperformed 97% of c.15k UK mutual funds, blending deep sector expertise with a data-driven approach.

A frequent speaker and podcast guest at top finance and tech events, Daniel also advises family offices and private wealth groups on venture capital and fintech investments.

With more than 20 years of experience across sales leadership, operations, finance, and strategy in the UK and New Zealand, Ashleigh brings a rare practitioner's lens to venture building. She has built and led high-performing commercial teams, improved operational performance, and delivered measurable revenue growth across complex environments, combining strategic clarity with hands-on execution.

A strong advocate for revenue-led venture development, diversity, equity and inclusion, and more effective infrastructure for early-stage innovation, Ashleigh plays a central role in ensuring Tramlines delivers consistent, repeatable value across its portfolio.

Andrea is a finance leader with over two decades of experience across startups, fintech, and social impact organisations, with a career built around investment analysis, strategic decision-making, and operational execution. With a strong academic grounding in finance and strategic management, Andrea developed hands-on experience in financial due diligence and business assessment at Kiva and EFTA. There, he vetted hundreds of small businesses, evaluating cash flow structures, business model viability, and capital deployment across high-impact contexts. That foundation gave him an early and unusually broad lens on how businesses grow, where risks emerge, and what sound financial judgment looks like in practice.

Joining Right To Play, Andrea moved deeper into strategic analysis and financial reporting, working alongside with senior leadership to translate data into decisions. From there, he stepped into senior finance leadership at UnderPinned, progressing from Head of Finance to CFO, where he led budgeting, forecasting, fundraising support, and board-level financial management. Following this, he advised founders directly as a freelance consultant, helping them build financial models and navigate the strategic choices that tend to matter most at growth stage.

Erica has spent her career working at the intersection of venture capital, network science and product design and was one of the first people to hold a network and community leadership role in a VC firm. After 15 years in product development, she spent seven years at Anthemis designing businesses and driving portfolio success through network science. She recently served as Atomico's Community Director before going independent.

Erica has been an advisor and co-designer of successful network venture capital tools, including Orbiit, an AI-powered matchmaking tool acquired by HiveBrite, as well as Hunt Club, Commsor and Bridge. A leading voice on applying network science to VC, Erica lectures at top MBA programmes at LBS, INSEAD, Imperial and McGill as well as the Newton Venture Program, a joint venture between Phoenix Court (LocalGlobe VC), London Business School and HSBC Innovation Banking.

She is a board member of NLC Ventures and the founder of The Reliants Project, which helps people and organisations understand how networks shape our well-being, relationships and community.

Eva is a deep VC domain expert, with her experience spanning the full spectrum of the startup ecosystem, from venture capital and venture studios to investment advisories. Having previously founded her own fundraising consultancy, Eva facilitated dozens of successful fundraises across a portfolio of early-stage companies before Tramlines.

Eva is known for her rigour in crafting investment narratives and with a track record of building relationships with the likes of Mark Cuban, Sequoia, a16z, and Tier 1 investors worldwide. Eva is increasingly in demand as a speaker on global stages, including Money20/20, TechBBQ, and others.

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