Rodney Appiah
Rodney joined Foresight in 2016 and works as a Director based in our London Office.
Prior to Foresight, Rodney worked for the Business Growth Fund where he spent five years providing minority growth capital and board support to UK SMEs. Prior to BGF, Rodney was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, advising PE sponsors and TMT corporates on leveraged finance transactions and M&A activity.
In his spare time, Rodney is Chairman of the CBI's London U35 committee, a business advisor to a number of start-up businesses and a school governor for an East London based Academy.
Rodney holds a Bsc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
James Kindred
Tom Ward
Natasha Steele
Bored of working in the city, Chief Juicer Natasha started to forage for ingredients around her allotment and turn them into cordials. To let the fruits’ true flavour shine, she used very little sugar and soon perfected her recipes. It wasn’t long until she found herself selling them at her local farmers market and demand grew. And so Urban Cordial was born. Once foraging got a bit too much, Natasha started to source her fruits direct from British farms, and only purchasing the surplus fruit that would otherwise go to waste. To date, Urban Cordial has helped to save over 45 tonnes of fruit
Zoey Henderson
David Burgess
Dr. Eileen Buttimer
Erica Kantor
Steven Webster
A lifelong entrepreneur, technologist, martial artist and coach, Steven Webster is the CEO & Founder of ASENSEI, the leading technology that uses motion capture and human movement recognition to power personalized Connected Health and Fitness experiences.
Holding a 4th degree black belt and two 2nd degree black belts in Ju Jitsu and Karate, Steven is also one of the most successful sports coaches in British University Sport. He captained and then coached Edinburgh University Karate Club to 10 consecutive national championships. After moving to California in 2009 with the sale of his first company to Adobe, the club won 8 more titles, under a coaching staff he taught as students.
For Adobe, Steven played a leadership role in the creation of a worldwide design-led consulting organization. Steven was trusted advisor to Adobe's most strategic clients, from NATO and NASA to Nike and the NFL.
Prior to ASENSEI, Steven opened Studio 415 for Microsoft, leading a team of Bay Area designers, engineers and data scientists in an innovation lab built to ideate and co-create new experiences with strategic customers including Gatorade and Sony. Working alongside colleagues from Microsoft Kinect, XBox Fitness, Cortana and Health Vault, Steven and team pioneered the idea of natural user interfaces - voice and gesture understanding – to interact with intelligent digital assistants.
In 2014, Steven left Microsoft to start ASENSEI and lead the creation of the “Connected Coaching” category of intelligent sports and fitness technology powered by human movement recognition, that would one day democratize and scale access to world-class personal coaching.