Oliver is a strategy adviser, innovator, policymaker, and applied ethicist who creates sustainable change that improves people’s lives. He was one of the founding executive team at Koa Health, which span out of Telefonica Alpha in 2020 with a €50m Series A, where he was responsible for strategy and ethics.
Prior to Koa Health he was Director of Strategy and Innovation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, responsible for investing £100m over five years in innovations across acute, primary, and integrated care, biomedical research and digital health start-ups.
He was a Senior Civil Servant in the UK Department of Health; responsible for UK Tobacco Control Policy, and UK Obesity Policy before that, writing the government’s first comprehensive childhood obesity strategy. Oliver was also a Policy Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair. He has an MA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University.
