Originally a biologist, Torsten founded UK tech startup NaturalMotion, acquired by Zynga for $527m in 2014. He's an active tech and biotech investor, part of MIT's Top 100 Innovators, and a member of the Munich Security Conference Innovation Board. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sussex University for UK tech contributions. Torsten holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford, a Masters in Artificial Intelligence, and pursued a PhD at Oxford as a Guy Newton scholar.