EF Team

Jonny Clifford

Partner and General Manager, London

Jonny Clifford is General Manager of Entrepreneur First London, responsible for the end to end delivery of the London programme. He has been at EF since late 2016, initially leading on building out their corporate network before taking over the running of the London programme in early 2018. He has supported companies that have raised over $100m in seed funding such as, Atlas ML, Candu, Comind, FabricNano, Intropic, Metomic, Novoic, Panakeia, Sonantic and Unitary.

He previously ran the sales team for Satchel, a Series A funded edtech startup in the UK, having joined them as one of their first employees.

EF Team

Rahul Samat

Partner and General Manager, Bangalore
Leads EF India, prior leadership experience at a decacorn. Founder, Angel Investor & UPenn graduate

Gina Yoo

Deputy General Manager, North America
Previous co-founder and COO of Mannr with investor networks in Canada and NYC

Thomas Poitrineau

Venture Partner, Entrepreneur First
Previous Principal at Entrepreneur First, focused on company building. Now an investor at a VC fund

Matt Clifford

CEO
Co-founded EF to help the world's most ambitious people break into entrepreneurship.

Alice Bentinck

CPO
Co-founder of Entrepreneur First, passionate about helping the world's best potential founders

Coralie Chaufour

Partner and General Manager, Paris
Engagement Manager at McKinsey and corporate lawyer, graduated from Harvard and Sciences Po

Tom Shinner

COO
Experienced board director & co-founder bringing experience from government & management consultancy

Bernadette Cho

Partner and General Manager, Singapore
Angel investor with high-level experience from across the startup, technology and non-profit sectors