TOM SPEECHLEY

CO-FOUNDER | CEO

After more than 25 years of global business experience, Tom Speechley co-founded SX2 Ventures with Diane Scott, leveraging his experience as an investor, business builder and lawyer to promote innovation and create long-term value in the human care sector.

Prior to the launch of SX2, Tom spent several years in the emerging market private equity and venture capital industry and was responsible for investments and business expansion in many developing countries. He has been an investor in innovative companies operating in North America and Europe for many years.

Earlier in his career, Tom practiced law in London and New York, specializing in financing buyouts and corporate acquisitions.

Tom Speechley is a Co-Founder of SX2 Ventures

Tom has sat on various corporate and not-for-profit boards including the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association and Junior Achievement Worldwide. He has been a senior advisor to Endeavor, a global organization dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs across the globe and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom, a global network of people committed to enriching society through ideas and action.

Tom has written and spoken widely on emerging market private equity and guest lectured at a number of leading universities in the United States. Tom has also spoken on emerging market healthcare issues at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United Nations and the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. He is the author of two books on Acquisition Finance and, while still a student at university, coded a series of educational software programs that were among the first used in the UK’s national curriculum.

At university, Tom initially studied chemical physics and then shifted his focus to law, graduating with a First-Class Honors degree in Law from the University of Sheffield, UK.

After more than 25 years of global business experience, Tom Speechley co-founded SX2 Ventures with Diane Scott, leveraging his experience as an investor, business builder and lawyer to promote innovation and create long-term value in the human care sector.

Prior to the launch of SX2, Tom spent several years in the emerging market private equity and venture capital industry and was responsible for investments and business expansion in many developing countries.

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