Cam is a Vice President based in London. A generalist by job title, but with a predictable weakness for anything frontline, fintech or healthcare
I grew up in the UK in a large extended family of scientists. My uncle - an astronaut who flew to space three times and pioneered NASA’s climate-modelling - set the bar quite high. Fortunately, as a child I was taken to watch every shuttle launch, which sparked a long-term obsession with technology, risk, and the people bold enough to combine the two.
I studied biotechnology at university just as CRISPR and next-gen therapeutics were taking off. Outside the lab, I became something of a biotech 'de-gen' (before it was cool), torching my student budget on equities developing the latest cell and gene therapies. It was a formative - and somewhat unprofitable - exposure to how innovation and markets collide. During my master’s, I met a former public-markets fund manager. We were technically there to do coursework, but mostly ended up talking stocks. By the end of the year, I was somehow invited to help launch a new global equities fund - effectively an accidental startup. It was a two-person shop with no money, few backers and plenty of naïveté. I loved it. Constraint forced creativity; at one point, we taught ourselves to code just to build an NLP tool that screened earnings transcripts.
After the fund, I moved into investment banking to learn large-cap M&A. It was rigorous, but I quickly missed the scrappiness and ownership of small teams. In 2023, I left and founded Zola Health, a vertical SaaS platform for elderly care homes - a strange, vital and deeply overlooked segment of society. We made plenty of mistakes, but the experience taught me the highs and lows of dragging something from 0 to 1.
I joined Creandum in early 2025 and immediately felt at home. For me, it's an unbelievable privilege to be invited into a founder’s orbit and possibly support their vision of how the world should look. I try to bring pattern-recognition from my investing years, the empathy from (trying to) build a company myself, and the excitement of someone who still can’t quite believe they get to do this for a living.