{"id":546298,"date":"2025-11-03T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:31:23","slug":"not-an-easy-decision-baltic-ventures-ceo-steps-down-after-five-incredible-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/546298\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNot an easy decision\u201d: Baltic Ventures CEO steps down after five ‘incredible’ years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claire Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Liverpool-based tech accelerator Baltic Ventures<\/a>, has announced she is stepping down after five years leading the organisation from inception to national prominence.<\/p>\n

In a LinkedIn post shared earlier today<\/a>, Lewis described the move as the end of an \u201cincredible journey,\u201d reflecting on her time taking Baltic Ventures from \u201cthe seed of an idea\u201d<\/a> to becoming \u201can angel syndicate and leading UK tech accelerator with a portfolio of 30 companies, eight figure follow-on investments and over 200 founders supported.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wrote: \u201cI\u2019ve reached a point in my career and life where I am ready for a change of rhythm; to take some time to rest and reset and to dedicate energy and focus to other areas and projects that I\u2019m passionate about. I\u2019ve therefore decided it\u2019s the right time for me to step down as CEO of Baltic Ventures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lewis said the decision \u201chas not been an easy\u201d one, adding that she had \u201cnever been happier than working with the completely awesome Baltic Ventures team: it has been a joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

She paid tribute to her colleagues, including Mo Aldalou, Becca Harvey, Rachel Siner, Carl Wong, David Woods, Mark Rathbone and Riam Kanso, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s been a privilege to work with each of you over the past few years, you are the best! I consider myself so lucky to have had this opportunity to build Baltic Ventures alongside you all. An enormous THANK YOU and big love \ud83d\udc9c.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis also extended her thanks to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, Baltic Ventures\u2019 angel syndicate, and the wider community of founders and supporters who have contributed to the accelerator\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

She confirmed she will remain involved with Baltic Ventures as a board member and consultant while taking on new consulting and non-executive director roles elsewhere. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be continuing in my current role until we have appointed the new CEO who will take this amazing organisation, that I am so proud of, on the next stage of its journey,\u201d she added, noting that the role will be advertised on LinkedIn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Baltic Ventures launched in 2023 with \u00a34.1m of backing from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, aiming to support early-stage tech founders through mentoring, masterclasses and access to investors \u2014 without the need to relocate to London.<\/p>\n

When it launched, Lewis told Prolific North: \u201cThere\u2019s something really special happening in Liverpool at the moment. As a region, we have enormous potential on a global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Liverpool-based tech accelerator Baltic Ventures, has announced she is stepping down after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-546298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115486017872293846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}