Primary Job Title Board Advisor Primary Organization 
SmarterHomes
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Max Kelly is a board member at Chemistry Development Board. He attended the University of Oxford.
Max is currently Managing Director of Techstars London. Techstars is the world’s leading accelerator program for early-stage start-ups.
Before Techstars, Max spent 12 years at Virgin where he was responsible for the strategy of the group and for
starting new companies: Virgin Insight - delivered big data consultancy to all the Virgin companies Virgin Mobile USA - grew to revenues of $1bn within 18 months Virgin Mobile Canada - voted best Canadian network in its launch year Virgin Healthbank - freezing stem cells cryogenically These companies exited for more than $500M for Richard Branson.
Alongside his Virgin commitments, Max also co-founded lastsecondtickets.com which was successfully sold in 2014.
He started his career at L’Oreal running the UK’s largest haircare brand – the irony was lost on no one. He was a scholar at Oxford University, where he obtained a First Class Degree in Chemistry.
