Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult, is an entrepreneur, author and angel investor. He is a Trustee of the British Library and a member of the UK Creative Industries Council. He was previously Executive Chairman of Semetric (acquired by Apple), founder CEO of Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), a strategic advisor to Shazam (acquired by Apple), and CEO of Sibelius Software (acquired by Avid). He was also Worldwide Vice-President of New Media for EMI Group in Los Angeles and Head of Media at Virgin Records where he worked with Genesis, Massive Attack, Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry, among others. Jeremy has spoken at TEDx, the Houses of Parliament, the CBI, SXSW and Midem among many trade events and is an Industry Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
Digital Catapult is the UK authority on advanced digital technology, accelerating early industry adoption of new technologies to drive opportunity and growth across the UK economy. Under Jeremy’s leadership, Digital Catapult has supported UK startups in raising £577m in the past five years. Part of the Catapult Network, established by Innovate UK, Digital Catapult has 70 innovation projects currently running and 20 technology facilities across the UK.
