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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based Managing Partner operating in the Banking space. If you think a Managing 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.
Marc Deschamps
Managing Partner & Executive Chairman of Drake Star Partners
Marc Deschamps is Managing Partner & Executive Chairman of Drake Star Partners. Marc combines a highly successful internet entrepreneurial and corporate leadership track record, with an award-winning M&A career dedicated to the tech and internet sectors. Prior to Drake Star Partners, Marc co-founded LD&A Jupiter in 2004, leading over 70 M&A and private equity international transactions. Marc’s career is all committed to the growth of tech and internet companies. Prior to co-founding Drake Star Partners, Marc served as COO of British Telecom, where he led the broadband internet multi-billion-pound launch and roll out in the UK. He also was Chello NV’s Co-Founder, the first broadband ISP and one of the first unicorns in Europe. As such, Marc led Chello NV through a $1 billion IPO on NASDAQ and AEX before its sale to Liberty Global as part of the UPC group. He began his career in technology management roles at Logitech (launching innovative products) and Philips (European marketing of new media publishing CD-I, CD-ROM). He co-founded his first IT company at the age of 17 providing race series such as Formula 1, IndyCar and NASCAR with revolutionary timing IT. Marc is and was non-executive board director in multiple innovation companies including some of the leading Indian IT providers, Canadian new media pioneers and the first European wind power operator. Marc founded and invested in multiple IT and internet companies. Marc holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Polytechnique de Montréal in collaboration with Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Marc published research in Artificial Intelligence and received scholarships from National Research Council of Canada as well as Power Corp. Marc lives in London with 3 kids, is Canadian and British national, multilingual and lived in some 6 countries.
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About Drake Star Partners: Drake star partners is an international investment bank focusing on the technology, media and communications sectors.
Ian Lobley
Managing Partner – Asset Management of 3i Group
Ian is Managing Partner (Asset Management Group) at 3i – a leading international investment manager focused on mid-market private equity and infrastructure. Ian has been an investor with 3i for 30 years where, in addition to a number of board roles, he is a member of the Group Investment Committee and on the board of 3i Infrastructure plc (the FTSE 250 listed infrastructure fund). Ian has been an active board member on a wide variety of companies across 3 continents and numerous sectors. Those boards have included both private and public companies with a number of ownership dynamics including institutionally-owned, founder-owned and startups.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Philip White
Managing Partner, Head of Infrastructure of 3i Group
Phil joined 3i in 2007 and is Managing Partner and Head of 3i’s Infrastructure business and a member of 3i’s Executive Committee, Investment Committee and Group Risk Committee. Prior to joining 3i, he was Division Director in Macquarie’s Infrastructure Funds business, where he managed investments in the transport sector. Phil has over 20 years of infrastructure investment, advisory and finance experience from earlier roles at Barclays and WestLB. Phil has an MBA from London Business School.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Nick Adasi
Managing Partner, Head of UK of DealGlobe
Nick was a member of the DealGlobe launch team in 2014. Previously he worked in a leading European hedge fund, based in London and specialising in Venture Capital. Before this he worked at Goldman Sachs in New York as part of the luxury & retail sector team. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland holding a BSc in Finance
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About DealGlobe: DealGlobe offers a full suite of financial advisory services for cross-border deals with China, underpinned by unique proprietary technology
Christian Thun-Hohenstein
Managing Partner of DealGlobe
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About DealGlobe: DealGlobe offers a full suite of financial advisory services for cross-border deals with China, underpinned by unique proprietary technology
Antony Northrop
Co-founder / Managing Partner of NOR Capital
Antony Northrop led many high-profile Capital Raising and M&A transactions in the TMT sector (both Public and Private). He previously founded M&A boutique Touchstone Securities (acquired by GP Bullhound). He was also a Partner at Lazard Brothers, and Executive Committee Member at SBCI / UBS, having originally trained at J.P. Morgan.
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About NOR Capital: NOR Capital is a Pan-European Corporate Finance advisory firm focused on the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sectors
Thierry Pepin
Managing Partner – Canada Practice of Clairfield International
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About Clairfield International: Clairfield is an international corporate finance firm that provides advisory services.
James Halstead
Managing Partner of Aviation Strategy
James was one of the first stock-broker analysts in London to publish research on the international scheduled airline industry on a global basis. Working for a number of Investment Banks in London, he has been one of the top ranked analysts following the sector and has been involved in many IPOs, share issues and advisory roles. He was one of the founding members of the UK Aviation Club and served as a non-executive director of a quoted start-up airline. He co-founded Aviation Strategy Ltd as a boutique aviation consultancy and publisher of the acclaimed Aviation Strategy newsletter.
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About Aviation Strategy: Aviation Strategy focus is on all aspects of commercial aviation.
Samina Akram
Managing Partner of Samak Ethical Finance
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About Samak Ethical Finance: Samak Ethical Finance Ltd is an independent, international Islamic and Ethical finance consultancy based in London.
Samina Akram
Managing Partner of Samak Ethical Finance
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About Samak Ethical Finance: Samak Ethical Finance Ltd is an independent, international Islamic and Ethical finance consultancy based in London.
