Chris Coleridge

Chris has taught entrepreneurship inside academia (Cambridge Judge Business School, UCL, ESCP Europe, London Business School, University of St Andrews) and outside it (Goldman Sachs 10ksb, London Stock Exchange ELITE in London, Milan and Beirut, New Entrepreneurs Foundation, European Institute of Innovation and Technology, UK Business Growth Builder, ConceptionX, MiSK Foundation, UK-Lebanon Tech Hub). He was formerly programme director of the MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, and founded the Cambridge Judge Launchpad (now simply known as the Master of Studies in Entrepreneurship). He has been a board advisor to several startups.

In May 2019, Chris cofounded Carbon13, a Cambridge-based, talent-first accelerator developing startups to attack CO2e emissions. It has been supported by, among others, Barclays, EY, Volkswagen, the European Investment Bank, BP Ventures, DLA Piper, and ARM. Chris served as Carbon13’s CEO until July 2023. Having built and launched over 60 impactful startups during this period, he then handed Carbon13’s mission over to a new CEO.

Chris has taught strategy, strategic management and innovation management inside academia (Cambridge Judge Business School, UCL, Imperial College, London Business School in London and Dubai, LSE, Beijing Central University of Finance and Economics) and for many organisations outside it (Omnicom, FPE Capital, JLL, Sberbank, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander, Porsche, the UK Ministry of Defence, BAE Systems, IBM, the UAE Prime Minister’s Office, Invesco, AstraZeneca, the Sanger Institute.) He has also supported open executive programmes at London Business School, including Executing Strategy for Results, Making Innovation Happen and Exploiting Digital Disruption. He has a particular specialism in strategy in ecosystems (eg technology partnering strategy), as well as a love of teaching pricing strategy and strategy execution.