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Individual Investor profile Derek Friend embarked on his telecommunications journey in the 1990s as an Aero Communications Engineer and IT project manager with French aerospace service provider SITA Aero overseeing secure long-range private communications infrastructure working in London, supporting the UK's busiest airports, and evaluating OEM providers. Over the years, Derek achieved significant milestones, notably founding, leading, and secured funding through equity and private investments for the groundbreaking CloudINX, The Cloud-Connected Independent Network eXchange (INX) 2014 project Before this, held senior advisory positions at Vodafone and Gateway, the largest satellite communication provider in Africa. After a PCCW acquisition that resulted in continued support for privatized networking project. Designed for governments, research and low-latency connections to bypass latency-heavy public ISP networking, CloudINX swiftly expanded its operations to 850+ global core and
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- • 1,305 investors hold the Chief Executive Officer role in VCSift. Derek Friend is one of them.
- • 731 investors are based in United Kingdom.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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