
Guy Weaver
Guy Weaver is a Manchester-based corporate finance & VC professional and GrowCFO Facilitator / AI training specialist with 25+ years of finance experience, including 19 years at KPMG and a Director role at Praetura Ventures.
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Jun 23, 2026
#289 The AI Skills Gap Every Finance Leader Needs to Close with Guy Weaver, GrowCFO Facilitator
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Guy WeaverGUEST
I spent 19 years at KPMG in various functions, so probably like everyone, start off in audit and then work out what I want to do, and then transitioned into corporate finance, doing M&A through to valuations and then through to debt advisory.

Guy WeaverGUEST
And then it's probably just over seven years ago, I was offered a job to join Potora to launch Potora Ventures, which is, at the time, there was no venture capital firm based in Manchester, so joined the team.

Guy WeaverGUEST
There was a bit of a baptism of fire 'cause there was probably six of us in a what used to be a pool room with wires everywhere, a dark room, working out how you build a venture capital firm.
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Kevin ApplebyHOST
This is really interesting here, Guy, because the fear of everybody as AI started to take hold was that, "Oh, this is gonna take our jobs away." We're now talking about very much different jobs that never existed before AI, or certainly different responsibilities that the human in the loop is gonna have to do.