Jonathan Harris Email & Phone Number

Until September 2023, Jonathan Harris was the editor of Young Company Finance (www.ycfscotland.co.uk), a monthly review of early stage high growth companies in Scotland which focuses particularly on the issues of how to fund growth. After graduating from Cambridge, Jonathan joined Scottish shipping group The Ben Line, and after four years in Japan worked with the group offshore drilling subsidiary Atlantic Drilling Co Ltd, eventually serving 15 years as director and general manager.During the prolonged recession in the offshore industry in the early 1990s, Jonathan left Ben Line and started working with young companies, in various roles including adviser and interim chief executive. He acquired Young Company Finance (YCF) from its founder Gavin Don in November 2000.Since February 2011 YCF’s activities in Scotland have been operated in partnership with LINC Scotland, the business angel capital association (now Angel Capital Scotland), of which Jonathan was a director. LINC Scotland acquired full ownership of YCF in March 2022, and Jonathan stepped down as a director of the organisation at the end of December 2023.Besides publishing the YCF monthly journal and producing the YCF annual conference, Jonathan has carried out a range of research studies in the young company sector, including the Risk Capital Market in Scotland and Investment Benchmarking Analysis reports for Scottish Enterprise up to 2019. Outside Scotland, YCF’s Spinouts UK project, an ongoing survey of all spinouts from universities across the UK, was acquired by Beauhurst in 2018.

Listed skills include Business Development, Start Ups, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and 13 others.

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  Director

  Linc Scotland

  Edinburgh, Gb