Lord John Nash is a Venture Capitalist, also formerly a Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools. He was chair of the British Venture Capital Association and on the board of the think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies. With his wife, Caroline Nash, he founded the charity Future, which was appointed by the Labour Government in 2008 to sponsor Future Academies, a trust managing school academies in London and Hertfordshire with a total of 7000 pupils. Future also supports other organisations focussed on less advantaged children and young people. 

Lord Nash comments, “I’m delighted to become a Founding Patron of this extremely worthwhile charity which I’m sure will be of great value to many people in understanding and navigating cancer.”