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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Partner operating in the Impact Investing space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Hiro Tamura
Partner of Atomico
Hiro Tamura is a Partner at Atomico and part of the firm’s leadership team. He focuses on consumer, FinTech, and software as well as leading Atomico’s investments in late stage venture. He led Atomico’s investment into Compass, Clutter, and Masterclass in the U.S., and MessageBird, Framer, and OneTwoTrip in Europe and sits on the boards of Clutter, MessageBird, Gympass, SmartNews, OneTwoTrip, Framer, and Quid. Hiro has over 20 years experience in founding companies, investing into, and helping fast growth technology companies expand internationally as both an investor and an entrepreneur. Prior to joining Atomico, he worked with the Skype founders to help them grow their business in Asia. He also co-founded and was the chief investment officer at SP&W Co for over 5 years. Hiro is a Japanese national with a BA in Economic and International Studies from Northwestern University. He is the only member of the Atomico team to have made investments in every continent, and finds the lifelong relationships he has built with a diverse group of game changing entrepreneurs from around the world to be his greatest reward.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Irina Elena Haivas
Partner of Atomico
Irina Haivas is a Principal. Based in London, she works on sourcing and due diligence of global investment opportunities. Irina focuses on businesses that use advanced technologies such as machine intelligence or robotics and automation, to transform large industries. She also focuses on the intersection of science and technology, including next generation biology, as well as on companies in healthcare. Before joining Atomico, Irina was a growth and PE investor at GHO Capital Partners, where she invested, among others, in enterprise software and AI/ML businesses and focused on the intersection of science, healthcare and technology. Before that, Irina was part of the leadership team of Bain & Co. in Europe and the U.S., where she worked directly both with private equity firms on investment diligence, as well as with corporates on Innovation and Product, Go-to-Market, BD and acquisitions, and organisation scale-up. While at Bain she seconded in an operational role at Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical engineering companies. Irina is a former surgeon, having studied medicine at Freiburg University in Germany and Iasi Medical University in Romania. She was a surgical fellow at Harvard Medical School before completing an MSc (Dist) in International Health Policy at London School of Economics. Irina speaks Romanian, English, advanced German, and conversational French.
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About Atomico, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Niall Wass
Partner of Atomico
Niall Wass is a Partner at Atomico focusing on investment opportunities in the consumer space and marketplaces. He is point person for or has worked closely with the teams at Jobandtalent, OnTruck, Lendinvest, Habito, Fat Llama and Lime. He is also Chairman of two other consumer businesses, Glovo and Trouva. Previously, Niall spent over 15 years as an executive in early-stage tech-enabled consumer businesses. He was part of the Executive Team at Uber, COO and CEO at Wonga – the consumer finance business – and for many years, he was at Betfair – the sports betting marketplace
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Camilla Richards
Partner & Head of Investor Relations of Atomico
Camilla is Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Atomico based in London. She oversees fundraising and the firm’s relationships with its investors globally. Before joining Atomico, Camilla spent six years at Apollo Management where she was most recently responsible for investor relations and fundraising for European Principal Finance Funds. She has also held several roles at Citigroup as part of the Private Equity Placements and Technology, Media and Telecoms Corporate Finance groups. Camilla graduated from Imperial College London with an MSci in Physics.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Chris Barnes
Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Atomico
Chris is Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Atomico. Based in London, he works across all aspects of Atomico’s operations. He oversees portfolio management, fund management, investor relations, resource allocation, finance, legal and HR. Chris joined the company after thirteen years at private equity company Terra Firma, where he was CFO and a member of the Investment and Management Committees. While at Terra Firma, Chris was involved in the structuring, funding and execution of all of the portfolio investments, as well as the management of the firm’s operations. Prior to Terra Firma, Chris worked in the Private Equity group at Arthur Andersen for 10 years. Chris is a Chartered Accountant and has a Double First in Economics and History from Cambridge University. He ran his first (and last) marathon at age 12, which may explain why he now has a titanium hip and the knees of a ninety year old. A talented footballer in his youth, Chris gave up the chance of a playing career in the top flight to follow his dream of becoming an accountant.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Tom Wehmeier
Partner | Head of Research of Atomico
Tom is a Partner and Head of Insights at Atomico. Tom’s mission at Atomico is to share data and insights with the team to help us to make better, data-driven decisions and to have more insightful conversations with their key stakeholders. Tom is also the author of Atomico’s annual State of European Tech report. Prior to joining Atomico, Tom was a telecoms analyst for eight years during a period of huge change in the industry. Tom assures us that telecoms is fascinating, despite the reputation, and often reminds their team that without connectivity and smartphones so much of what is happening in today’s tech industry simply wouldn’t be possible. One summer, Tom decided to try his hand at teaching English and, after qualifying with distinction, went on to teach English in Oxford to students from all around the world. Fortunately, his English is much better than his French, German and Spanish, although he claims to get by in all of them.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Bryce Keane
Head of Communications & Partner of Atomico
Bryce is a Partner and Head of Communications at Atomico, where he has worked with the leadership of companies such as Klarna, Lilium, Truecaller, MessageBird, Peakon, Varjo, Bossa Studios and Memphis Meats to help them tell their stories to a global audience. Prior to joining Atomico, Bryce founded his own communications agency, Albion Drive, where he worked with entrepreneurs and fast growth companies to build their brands and reputations. The company was acquired by New York ad agency KBS just two years after it was founded, and Bryce remained Managing Partner until October 2016. An active, long-term supporter of technology start-ups, Bryce has also been embedded in the international startup community for many years as Co-founder of 3Beards – which he helped scale into 51 cities and counting via their popular Friday night tech community meet-up event Silicon Drinkabout – and as a mentor at 500 Startups and Seedcamp. Bryce also once played a US Marine as an extra on the Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced WWII mini-series The Pacific. His performance convinced him that a career in Communications was probably a better idea.
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About Albion Drive, Atomico, Cohn & Wolfe: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Caroline Chayot
Partner of Atomico
Caroline Chayot is a Partner at Atomico, where she helps portfolio companies hire, develop and retain the best talent in Europe – a key factor in the success of any fast-growing business. Prior to joining Atomico Caroline led the EMEA HR team at Twitter, where she supported the leadership team in scaling the business from two to six markets and grew the team from 80 based in London to 500 across the region. She partnered with Twitter EMEA’s leaders on strategic people issues, from expansion strategy to change management. Prior to that she worked at Google in HR for 9 years. Caroline holds a double Masters degree in Business and Management from ISC Paris and Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. Outside of work, you’ll find Caroline feeding her fitness obsession at high-intensity workouts or sharing the latest fashion with her followers as a secret Instagram influencer. She won’t share her alias, though, so good luck finding her.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Dan Hynes
Partner of Atomico
Dan is a Partner and Head of Talent at Atomico, based in London. Passionate about people and building teams, he brings his extensive global experience in technology talent and staffing to help portfolio companies find, grow and keep the best employees in their respective fields – a key factor in the success of any fast-growing business. He is currently on the board of OnTruck, the Madrid-based logistics and transport company. Dan has helped gamechanging companies including 6Wunderkinder, Omio, Gympass, Klarna, Lilium, MessageBird, Supercell, Truecaller and Varjo strengthen their leadership teams, build recruitment processes, build manager effectiveness programmes, design compensation programmes and create internal communications plans. Prior to joining Atomico, Dan was responsible for talent and staffing at some of the world’s best-known technology companies including Google, Cisco and Skype. At Google, he grew the EMEA team from 60 based in London to 8500 across Europe by 2010, and at Skype he led the Talent team that scaled from 600 to 2300 in three years. Dan is a modest guy so you would never know that he is a Guinness World Record holder for the world’s largest syrtaki dance in Rhodes 2008.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
David Abrams
Partner of Cerberus Capital Management
David Abrams joined Cerberus in 2016 after eight years as the founder and Managing Partner of the Apollo European Principal Finance Funds franchise which acquired distressed debt, real estate and non-performing loans. Previously, David Abrams spent 15 years in Credit Suisse’s Leveraged Finance Group analyzing and investing in corporate credit, distressed assets and European Non-Performing Loan portfolios. David Abrams graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Cerberus Capital Management: Cerberus Capital Management is a private investment firm that focuses on operational private equity investments.
Andrew Castell
Partner of Par Equity
Andrew is a Chartered Accountant and has a MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University. His career prior to Par Equity took in corporate finance and restructuring as well as serving at PLC board level. Within Par Equity, Andrew is responsible for a range of disciplines including regulatory matters, finance, fund structuring and investment and exit execution.
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About Par Equity: Par Equity is a leading, early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative, high growth technology companies.
Robert Higginson
Partner of Par Equity
Robert spent the early part of his career as a software engineer for a start-up based in the U.S before moving into broader technology, product management and strategy roles within the financial services sector. Latterly he has operated as an investor on his own account before assuming his main role as Par Equity’s Gatekeeper where he is responsible for assessing inbound investment opportunities.
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About Par Equity: Par Equity is a leading, early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative, high growth technology companies.
Paul Atkinson
Partner of Par Equity
Paul is an entrepreneur and serial angel investor having started three businesses prior to Par Equity. He has a substantial track record of building value for companies in the technology and services sector and taking them to a successful exit. He has a BSc in Physics from Manchester University. Paul’s responsibilities within Par Equity include business development and helping portfolio companies access the right people in Par Equity’s network to support them in delivering growth. He also oversees Par Equity’s forestry activities.
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About Par Equity: Par Equity is a leading, early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative, high growth technology companies.
Paul Munn
Partner of Par Equity
Paul is a Chartered Management Accountant and has experience of corporate management, turnarounds, business development and active share owner engagement. He has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Glasgow. Within Par Equity, Paul works closely with portfolio companies on a wide range of operational and growth challenges as well as being responsible for Par Equity’s property funds.
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About Par Equity: Par Equity is a leading, early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative, high growth technology companies.
Raj Rao
Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)
Raj Rao joined GIP as a Principal at its inception in 2006 and was elected a Partner in 2010. He is a member of the Investment and Operating Committees. He leads GIP’s energy, power, water and waste related efforts in Europe, developing GIP’s strategy in those sectors for GIP, working closely with the Investment Committee. Prior to joining GIP in 2006, Raj Rao was a Director with Credit Suisse, most recently in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group specialising in energy and utilities transactions. Before joining Credit Suisse, Raj Rao was a member of the project finance team within Barclays Capital in London, where he worked on several project and acquisition financing transactions in Europe. Previously, Raj Rao worked within the Asian equity sales team of Kotak Securities (then an affiliate of Goldman Sachs) in Mumbai, India.In his 23-year career, he has completed multiple transactions, including a number of complex mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, and financing transactions across the energy, waste and transport spectrum, in both OECD and emerging market countries.
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About Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP): Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is a leading global, independent infrastructure investor.
Tufan Erginbilgic
Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)
Tufan Erginbilgic was appointed chief executive, Downstream on 1 October 2014. Prior to this, Tufan was the chief operating officer of the fuels business, accountable for BP’s fuels value chains worldwide, the global fuels businesses and the refining, sales and commercial optimization functions for fuels. Tufan joined Mobil in 1990 and BP in 1997 and has held a wide variety of roles in refining and marketing in Turkey, various European countries and the UK. In 2004 he became head of the European fuels business. Tufan took up leadership of BP’s lubricant business in 2006 before moving to head the group chief executive’s office. In 2009 he became chief operating officer for the eastern hemisphere fuels value chains and lubricants businesses.
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About BP, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP): Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is a leading global, independent infrastructure investor.
Lyle Fong
Partner of EQT Ventures
Lyle has founded and run multiple tech startups, including Gamers.com, Hobo Labs and Lithium Technologies, the enterprise social media software company. Having bootstrapped Lithium since its inception in 2001 to $10M in ARR, Lyle then raised over $180M in funding from Benchmark, Shasta, Emergence, and others. Lithium made four acquisitions, including Klout, the inventors of the “Klout Score” to measure social media influence. With Lithium growing to more than 300 employees and generating $100M+ in subscription revenues, the company was subsequently acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017. Prior to joining EQT Ventures, Lyle was a visiting partner at Y Combinator and an active investor and mentor to early-stage startups. Having relocated from San Francisco to London to join EQT Ventures as a partner, Lyle brings Silicon Valley expertise to the London startup ecosystem. Lyle has seen failures, successes, and understands the ups and downs of the journey that entrepreneurs go through. He joined EQT Ventures with the goal of being a true partner to entrepreneurs, investing time and mentorship in their growth, just as much as investing financially into the company. Lyle grew up playing games like Quake and Starcraft competitively. Now he still plays Overwatch, but can’t play too much because of the toll it takes on his ego. He also loves Ping Pong, even hiring a coach and buying robots to train his employees at Lithium, which led to the informal creation of a Silicon Valley Ping Pong fight club amongst tech startups.
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About EQT Ventures, Hobo Labs: EQT Ventures provides support and capital to bold and ambitious founders on their journeys to global success.
Johan Svanstrom
Partner of EQT Ventures
Johan is Partner at EQT Ventures where he advises our portfolio companies on expanding and scaling globally – areas that Johan has a wealth of experience in. He’s currently serving on the board of portfolio company Wolt and Epidemic Sound, an EQT Mid Market Europe portfolio company. Prior to his role at EQT Ventures, Johan was President of Hotels.com and a member of the global management team of its parent, Expedia Group Inc for five years. In his role at Hotels.com, Johan led the innovation, strategic development and growth of the brand – operating in more than 70 countries. Johan was also President of Expedia Affiliate Network, the B2B partner division of Expedia Group, for more than three years. Before this, Johan spent eight years with Expedia in Asia-Pacific as a Managing Director, launching and growing several of the company’s divisions into regional leading players. He also served as a board member at Chinese OTA eLong Inc (listed on NASDAQ at the time). Prior to joining Expedia, Johan was Head of the Digital Innovations Group at McDonald’s Corporation. Here, he led the launch of Redbox and the roll out of Wi-Fi services at the McDonald’s store network. Prior to this, Johan was CEO of Freefund, an online database company matching university students with corporations and employers across Europe. From 1997 to 1999 he served as Vice President of Business Development at Glocalnet AB, a voice-over-IP telecom company that he helped take public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Johan is a private investor and advisor to start-ups and serves on the boards of Revolutionrace AB and Yepstr AB. He’s also a board member of Parques Reunidos, a public company listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange. Johan holds a Master’s of Science in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and speaks four languages. Outside of work, Johan spends his time doing a lot of sports and travel with his wife and four kids.EQT Ventures
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About EQT Ventures: EQT Ventures provides support and capital to bold and ambitious founders on their journeys to global success.
Martin Eriksson
Operating Partner, Product of EQT Ventures
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About EQT Ventures, ProductCamp, ProductTank: EQT Ventures provides support and capital to bold and ambitious founders on their journeys to global success.
Zoe Jervier
Talent Partners of EQT Ventures
As Talent Partner, Zoe will help portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates as each stage of company growth. Zoe is also responsible for building EQT Ventures’ talent network and helping the fund discover world-class founders. This includes looking at how Motherbrain – the AI platform developed for use across EQT – can help with talent discovery. Zoe joined EQT Ventures from Entrepreneur First (EF), an organization that brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch. Here, Zoe built the global talent strategy from the ground up and led the in-house Talent team. During her four years there, Zoe helped EF find and select more than 500 individuals to create and scale more than 150 companies with a total valuation of over $1bn. Prior to EF, Zoe coordinated all recruitment activity at British entertainment company Mind Candy and also worked at Apple.
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About EQT Ventures: EQT Ventures provides support and capital to bold and ambitious founders on their journeys to global success.
Maina Bhaman
Partner of Sofinnova Partners
Maina Bhaman is Director of Healthcare Investments at Imperial Innovations. Maina has led a number of investments in Imperial Innovations’ healthcare portfolio including recent investments into Psioxus Therapeutics and Cellmedica. Maina currently serves on the board of Autifony Therapeutics, Cell Medica, Ixico, Psioxus Therapeutics and Topivert Pharma. Maina was also served on the board of Acrobot and Molecular Vision Ltd. Maina joined Innovations in 2006 and prior to that worked in the research and development team at Celltech (previously Oxford Glyco Sciences). Maina’s experience includes Chimeric Therapies, a cell therapy start-up based in Philadelphia and GeneMedicine, a gene therapy company based in Houston, Tx. Maina has a BSc from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Imperial Business School.
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About Imperial Innovations, Sofinnova Partners: Sofinnova Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the life sciences sector, from seed to later-stage.
Tom Burt
Partner, Crossover fund of Sofinnova Partners
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About Sofinnova Partners: Sofinnova Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in the life sciences sector, from seed to later-stage.
Michael McFadgen
Partner of Element Ventures
Michael McFadgen is a Partner at Element Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of NEX Opportunities and Euclid Opportunities and the Opportunities Director of Strategic Investments at the Barclays Capital.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
Spencer Lake
Partner of Element Ventures
Spencer Lake was appointed Global Head of Capital Financing with effect from 12 August 2013. He is a Partner for Element Ventures. Capital Financing houses the primary products of Global Banking and Markets, such as Debt Capital Markets and Equity Capital Markets. Spencer was previously Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011. Global Markets housed the bank’s fixed income, commodities, and equity activities across sales, trading, origination, and research. Spencer joined HSBC in 2006 as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets and Acquisition Finance. He was also jointly responsible for HSBC’s government sector. Prior to joining HSBC, Spencer had a 17-year career with Merrill Lynch in New York, Hong Kong, and London across a number of areas including real estate finance, investment banking, and debt capital markets. During his career at Merrill, Spencer ran Asian debt origination, started and managed European public sector origination, managed European emerging markets asset and liability origination, European financing and risk management and, prior to his departure, ran liability origination in the Pacific Rim (Japan, Asia-Pacific and Australasia). Before Merrill Lynch, Spencer worked for two years at JP Morgan in real estate investment banking. Spencer holds a BA degree in International Finance and Marketing from Suffolk University, Massachusetts, and an MBA degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
Steve Gibson
Partner of Element Ventures
Steve is a Partner at Element Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Euclid Opportunities and the Head of Business Development of Ipreo.
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About Element Ventures: Element Ventures is a Fintech-focused fund that backs companies that utilize technology to deliver competitive advantages in B2B verticals.
Francois Mazoudier
Founder & Managing Partner of TLC
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About TLC: TLC is a co-investment club for Tech CEOs (and Tech Leaders) with significant track records.
Ralph Guenther
Head of Continental Europe Investor Relations & Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Ralph is a member of Pantheon’s European Client Service team, focusing on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and will also source deals for Pantheon’s secondaries team. Ralph was previously a Managing Director with bmp AG where he worked on private equity fund-of-funds and advisory services for institutional clients. He has a degree in economics from FU Berlin.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Graeme Keenan
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Toni Vainio
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Toni is a Partner in Pantheon’s European Investment Team. Toni previously worked in the private equity team of Cambridge Associates Limited. He holds a MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a BEng in Engineering with Business Finance, which was jointly taught at University College London and the London School of Economics.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Imogen Richards
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Imogen is Global Head of Investment Structuring and Strategy in Pantheon’s Global Investment Team. She is also closely involved in key strategic and corporate development projects. Imogen joined Pantheon from Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin and holds a MA in natural sciences from Cambridge University.
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About Pantheon Ventures, Pantheon Ventures, Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Helen Steers
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Helen leads Pantheon’s European primary investment activity and chairs the European Investment Committee. She is also a member of the International Investment Committee and the Co-investment Committee. Helen joined Pantheon in 2004 from Russell Investments in Paris, where she was Managing Director with overall responsibility for private equity in Europe. Prior to joining Russell in 1999, Helen spent five years as Director, European Private Equity with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. From 1989 to 1994, Helen was a senior investment manager at the Business Development Bank of Canada in Montréal. Helen received a BA and an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In addition to her responsibilities at Pantheon, Helen is involved with the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), where she sits on the Limited Partners Platform Council and has recently been appointed to the EVCA Board of Directors. Helen is bilingual in English and French.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Richard Sem
Partner, Infrastructure & Real Assets of Pantheon Ventures
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Rob Barr
Partner, Head of EMEA IR of Pantheon Ventures
Rob is a senior member of the client service team. He is responsible for overseeing Pantheon’s client and fundraising teams covering the UK, the Nordic region and the Middle East and Africa. He is also involved in Pantheon’s DC initiative. Before joining Pantheon, Rob spent six years at Deutsche Asset Management as a Director and prior to this, he spent four years working in private equity for Morgan Grenfell Development Capital. Rob qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young, having previously worked in industry for Johnson Matthey. He received a BSc from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Rob is based in London.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Andrea Echberg
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Andrea Echberg, Partner and Head of European Infrastructure and Real Assets joined Pantheon in 2012 and has 13 years of private equity experience. Andrea is responsible for investments in Europe covering primary, secondary and co-investments and brings to Pantheon an engineering industry background followed by 21 years’ experience in the infrastructure finance and investment sectors. Prior to joining Pantheon, Andrea led infrastructure direct and co-investment teams for Société Générale, Macquarie Capital and ABN AMRO, delivering successful investments in both brownfield operating and greenfield PPP assets. She has a BEng in mechanical engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. Andrea is based in London.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Erik Wong
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Erik is a Partner in Pantheon’s Co-Investment Team. Erik joined Pantheon from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Prior to that he worked for IFRS Foundation in the UK and before that, he worked on direct investments with Quilvest Asia in Hong Kong. Erik was trained as an accountant with PwC in Hong Kong and is a CA and CPA. In addition to his accountancy degree, Erik holds an MSc in Finance from University of London and an MBA from University of Cambridge.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Alex Scott
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Erik Wong
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
Erik is a Partner in Pantheon’s Co-Investment Team. Erik joined Pantheon from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Prior to that he worked for IFRS Foundation in the UK and before that, he worked on direct investments with Quilvest Asia in Hong Kong. Erik was trained as an accountant with PwC in Hong Kong and is a CA and CPA. In addition to his accountancy degree, Erik holds an MSc in Finance from University of London and an MBA from University of Cambridge.
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Alex Scott
Partner of Pantheon Ventures
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About Pantheon Ventures: Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor. We manage regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure
Kostas Manolis
Partner and Head of Unquoted Investments of Downing Ventures
Kostas joined Downing as a Partner in 2015. He works across the Investment team and is a member of the Downing Ventures Investment Committee. He has more than 13 years’ private equity experience as investor, board director, portfolio manager, adviser and business angel. Kostas worked as a corporate finance advisor at PwC, where he advised institutions and management teams on private equity deals and later joined the private equity team of Bank of Scotland in 2006. He was a member of the Caird Capital team that led a successful spin out of a £0.5 billion private equity portfolio from Lloyds Banking Group in 2010. Kostas has worked with management teams through operational improvement, growth, turnaround and successful exits. Kostas holds a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Genetics and is a Chartered Accountant with ICAEW.
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About Downing Ventures: Downing Ventures, a division of Downing LLP, invests venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses.
Chris Allner
Partner of Downing Ventures
Chris is a partner of Downing LLP and heads up the Investment Team. Chris has 30 years of venture capital and private equity experience, most recently as head of private equity at Octopus Investments. Prior to this, he was a director at Beringea and Bridgepoint with previous experience at 3i and Charterhouse. Chris has transacted over 50 investments and has sat on the boards of a number of unquoted and quoted portfolio companies across a variety of commercial sectors. Current board seats include Claresys Ltd and Curo Ltd. Chris joined Downing in March 2012.
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About Downing Ventures: Downing Ventures, a division of Downing LLP, invests venture capital into early and growth stage technology businesses.
Giada Mazzoni
Partner of 1859 Capital
Giada Mazzoni is a Partner at 1859 Capital.
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About 1859 Capital: 1859 Capital runs a Collective Intelligence investment model based on its own bespoke data.
David Escoffier
Partner of Eighteen East Capital
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About Eighteen East Capital: Eighteen East Capital connects impact investing to the capital markets to unlock additional pools of capital.
