Luke Baker

Grip empowers professionals and the event industry by providing full-cycle support that facilitates quality interactions. At its core, their proprietary technology drives intelligent recommendations through Grip’s self-learning matchmaking engine. They use natural language processing, advanced algorithms and deep neural networks to constantly learn about the professional goals and interests of visitors, exhibitors and sponsors. Grip provides their solutions to the likes of Reed, ITE and Messe Dusseldorf.

Tested the hypothesis: a crowd-funding platform allowing people to co-invest in sustainably farmed land in the UK is an economically viable business

iShares Fixed Income Business Manager - Led strategy and managed iShares fixed income business across Europe - Feb 2014 - Apr 2016 iShares Capital Markets Relationship Manager - Managed relationships with iShares leading investment banks to build out iShares ETF trading partners - Jan 2012 - Jan 2014 iShares Capital Markets Client Execution Sales - Advised on over $1Bn of ETF traded volume of Institutional & Wealth clients across Europe - Dec 2010 - Dec 2011