Chris Padfield is a seasoned founder and product leader with over two decades building Deskpro into a multi-channel social CRM helpdesk and now serving on its board. He combines hands-on product and PHP/MySQL engineering experience with deep early-stage investing expertise, having managed seed deals and acted as gatekeeper for London Business Angels. Chris has repeatedly moved between building commercial software products and structuring angel/VC investments, giving him a pragmatic lens on product-market fit and scalable go-to-market strategies. Based in London and Oxford-educated in PPE, he also runs niche product ventures like Outlook2Web and has experience learning from failed startups, which informs his disciplined approach to team scaling and fundraising.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons Politics Philosophy and Economics, BA Hons Politics Philosophy and Economics at University of Oxford
4 A Levels 1 AS Level 11 GCSEs, 4 A Levels 1 AS Level 11 GCSEs at Canford School
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Chris Padfield - Board Member at IPR Technnology Limited