Octopus Investments CEO Ruth Handcock talks to Lauren Mason about her three years steering the company through markets that have not always been buoyant.
"My biggest fear is standing still, because we know that everything around us is always moving and if we do not, we will get left behind. Whether your company is two years old or 20 years old, you have to keep things moving just as quickly as you always did," Octopus Investments' CEO Ruth Handcock told Investment Week. Octopus opens £80m fundraise for UK's largest VCT Handcock, who joined Octopus Investments three years ago and became CEO in February 2019, says it was the fast pace of change that attracted her to the firm in the first place, having previously worked in Sierra Leone fo...
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