John Nash, Baron Nash

John Alfred Stoddard Nash, Baron Nash (born 22 March 1949) is a Venture Capitalist, also formerly a Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools. Nash was chair of the British Venture Capital Association (1988–89), on the board of the Conservative think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies and a Trustee of the Education Policy Institute. 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; he is joint chairman of the governors of Pimlico Academy, one of the institutions run by Future Academies. Future also supports other organisations focussed on less advantaged children and young people.