Neil Appleton
Pioneer · DISC type DSiNeil Appleton is the CEO and Founder of Strokes Gained Ventures, a firm that coaches, consults, and invests in golf entrepreneurs. Previously, he spent over 16 years at Elsevier, culminating in a role as SVP of Society Business Development. He holds an MBA from London Business School.
Neil is building a portfolio career centered on his passions for golf, mission-driven publishing, and non-profit board work in health and sport. A former university golfer and hockey player at Cambridge, he now channels his enthusiasm for sports into his entrepreneurial and philanthropic activities.
After a long, successful corporate career in publishing, he founded a venture capital firm dedicated entirely to his personal passion for golf.
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