Phillip Chambers

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Mr. Phillip Chambers serves as Partner at Balderton Capital. Mr. Chambers is an Angel Investor. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer at Orbex, a Scottish space launch company selected as one of five winners of the European Space Agency European Launcher Challenge. He co founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Peakon, a Balderton portfolio company focused on employee engagement, leading its international expansion prior to its 700 million dollar acquisition by Workday in 2021, after which he served as General Manager at Workday for approximately two and a half years. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Podio, which was acquired by Citrix in 2012, and subsequently served as Product Line Director for communications products at Citrix, where he led the GoToMeeting product line. He also held senior technology roles at startups including Gumtree and Hamburg based Qype, and served as an investor at Tonsser. Alongside his operating career, he has been one of Europes most active angel investors, backing more than 100 startups across the European technology ecosystem. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Manchester Institute completed in 2004.