Chris Beare

Chris Beare is the Chairman and a General Partner of Accede. Chris has diverse experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, chief executive, and independent director. He has both led and been involved with numerous venture capital funded companies most recently including Wizard Home Loans which was later acquired by General Electric and Radiata. Chris was Chairman and CEO of Radiata which he led from 2 people to a successful sale to Cisco Systems for $595 million in 2000. Chris is involved in a portfolio of other ICT companies including m.Net and Eccosphere.

Chris was joint CEO of Hambros and head of the corporate finance team which achieved top 10 ranking for M&A and No.3 for project finance. Chris advised on the merger of Telecom and OTC to form Telstra and negotiated a number of deals which resulted in the creation of FOXTEL - Australia 's leading subscription television provider. Prior to Hambros, Chris worked in the venture capital industry and as General Manager of Advent was responsible for $100m invested in over 40 companies. Prior to the venture industry, Chris held a number of engineering and management positions at Telecom Australia including the Head of Strategy.

Chris holds a BSc, BE (Hons) and PhD (Electrical) from Adelaide University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School .