Joe Steel

Joe is a business leader, entrepreneur and manager with a unique track record in creating and growing businesses, achieved through innovation in consumer engagement and service excellence. Joe advises and invests in a small number of ventures, whether that be high growth businesses in sectors going through significant change or services enabled by technologies where the human touch is critical.

His experience is in founding and growing ventures. Virgin Mobile – from startup, through 1 million customer-growth a year, to IPO, and sale; consumerising tech support with Virgin Digital Help; coping with extraordinary growth at Essence, the thought leader in digital marketing; and pivoting the online print business model at Optimalprint.

In healthcare, his focus is on ventures proving how carefully created and delivered care services can improve lives while radically reducing the cost of care provision. Oysta Technology, SuperCarers, Dr Morton’s and more. Joe holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London.