Dr Ewan Kirk is a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has been involved in a number of ventures to commercialise, apply, and support science, technology, and mathematics research. He is a NED at BAE Systems, chair of DeepTech Labs, executive chair at Cardeo and founder and director of the Turner Kirk Trust. He chairs the management committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.  Kirk is best known for founding Cantab Capital Partners, a science-driven quantitative investment management firm, that uses data analysis to research and implement systematic investment strategies. Between 2007 and 2016, Cantab was consistently ranked as one of the top-performing quant funds. In 2016, it was acquired by GAM Investments. Between 1992 and 2005, Kirk was a partner at Goldman Sachs. Kirk holds a PhD in general relativity. With his wife, Dr Patricia Turner, Kirk founded the Turner-Kirk Charitable Trust, which supports STEM, early childhood development, and biodiversity and conservation causes in the UK and developing world. In 2015, Kirk and Turner provided a £5m gift to the University of Cambridge to launch the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information.