Piers Linney is an entrepreneur and investor with experience across a range of sectors including technology, media, communications, and additive manufacturing. He is a co-founder of Atherton Bikes, the world-leading producer of additive-manufactured mountain bikes that won the World Championships 2023 (1st and 2nd). He is a co-founder of Implement AI, a next-generation technology partner focused on intelligent business transformation through the power of artificial intelligence, and co-host of its leading AI podcast.  Piers is a well-known champion of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized businesses and a regular media commentator on radio and TV. 

Piers is best known as a former Dragon investor on BBC1’s Dragons’ Den and from Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire. He has a professional background as a qualified lawyer specializing in venture capital, M&A investment banking at Credit Suisse, and alternative asset fund management, and was a Non-executive Director of the UK government’s development bank British Business Bank during the rollout of the £90bn Covid business support loan schemes. Piers was also a former Trustee of Nesta the UK’s largest innovation agency with a £500m endowment. He has been recognized as one of the UK’s top 100 most influential black Britons and in 2020 he was recognized as one of the UK’s top 20 ethnic minority executives. Piers is an adviser to Sky and sits on its Diversity Advisory Council.