John Taysom

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Mr. John Taysom serves as an Advisor at Communitas Capital Partners. He was a Co-Founder and served as a Board Member at Privitar. He served as a Board Member at Nozzle. He was a Board Member of Partnerize. He served as a Board Member of Digimarc and TIBCO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO. He acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC, and others. In 2011 and 2012, he took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015, he is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, the Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College and runs a small farm in Devon. He served as an Advisor at LoopMe. He serves as an Advisor at Fortaegis. He is a founder in 1995 of Reuters Venture Capital Fund, Visiting Professor at UCL, Policy Fellow at Cambridge University and former Fellow at Harvard University. Investor and entrepreneur in network technologies. He was the founder of the Reuters Venture Capital Fund, based in Palo Alto, established in 1995, with a focus on innovations in network security and performance. Under his leadership, the fund made 82 investments, $400m in total, notably 17 of the companies went on to achieve initial public offerings including Verisign, phone.com, Digimarc, and Equinix. John held a fellowship at Harvard University between 2011 and 2012. In 2015, he joined as a Policy Fellow the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and became a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.