Andrew D. Ive

Andrew is the founder, Managing General Partner at Big Idea Ventures. Focused on Solving the World's Biggest Challenges by Supporting the World's Best Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Engineers. Andrew launched and grew businesses at Procter & Gamble. P&G brand management trained, and while in his dorm room at Business School, he took a new product idea, raised angel funds, established a manufacturing facility in China and a sales force to sell his first solo product line into major US retailers. In his second Silicon Valley based company, Andrew raised $20M+ from VCs to focus on the data challenge between retailers and their vendors. That company was acquired. Andrew has focused on innovation, developing high-growth businesses opportunities and as a business advisor in multiple verticals. He served on the Board of the Small Business Council of the Department of Trade and Industry advising the UK Government on entrepreneurship and high growth companies; the National Science Foundation on startup grant awards, the Investment Task Force and the Center for Policy Studies, Small Business Council (UK Think Tank). Andrew is an author and speaker. He holds a BSc from the University of London and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. His first product, the X-IT Ladder, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.