Dr Hamish Stevenson

Hamish Stevenson, founder of Fast Track, angel investor and Associate Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Hamish is an entrepreneur, and was the founder and CEO of Fast Track for 25 years with backing from Sir Richard Branson. He is an angel investor in a number of venture capital funds and early-stage companies; and has retained an associate fellowship at GTC for over 20 years.

Fast Track was the UK’s leading research and events company focused on the top-performing private companies and entrepreneurs thought its six annual rankings in The Sunday Times. They featured rising stars such as ARM and Ocado before they floated, and tracked the growth of the biggest privately-owned companies such as Ineos and Dyson.

In the early years Fast Track took on four Oxford MBA summer project teams and employed a number of Saïd Business School graduates. In 2021, Hamish decided to liquidate the company and to pursue his interests on a part-time basis.

He previously set up and held the Virgin fellowship in entrepreneurship at Templeton College after pitching the idea to Branson. He collaborated with Stanford School of Business on entrepreneurial case studies for the World Economic Forum (WEF), and was invited to their ‘Summer Davos’ for growth champions in China.

He was born in South Africa, and won scholarships to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and to Oxford University to study for an MPhil and DPhil in management studies.
He has completed in a number of long-distance charity bike rides and challenges to raise funds for The Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa and for the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Fellowship.

He lives outside of Oxford, and has four grown-up children in early-stage tech-related careers.