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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 Finance 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.
Frederic Court
Founder and Managing Partner of Felix Capital
Frederic is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felix Capital. He has worked in the technology industry for the past 20 years, prior to Felix as General Partner with Advent Ventures in London, and previously as an entrepreneur. At Felix, Frederic works closely with Farfetch (NYSE:FTCH), goop, Mejuri, Yoobic, The Business of Fashion, Highsnobiety and Mirakl. He led the growth investments in Deliveroo and Peloton. While at Advent, Frederic led investments in Farfetch, Zong (sold to eBay), Vitrue (Oracle), Dailymotion (Orange), Qype (Yelp), Fizzback (Nice Systems) and Ubiquisys (Cisco). Frederic was named “Investor of the Year” in Europe by his peers at the 2012 Investor All Stars event. He was on the Midas List Europe 2017 and 2018. Previously he was an entrepreneur in France, building a VC-backed online marketplace for the textile industry, and before that a technology banker in London and New York with Lazard. A graduate of ESSEC in Paris and Bocconi University in Milan, Frederic is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
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About Adverity, Deliveroo, Felix Capital, Forter, La Ruche qui dit Oui, Moonbug, Oatly, Peloton: Felix Capital is a venture fund that focuses on digital commerce, digital media, and information technology companies.
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Saleh Romeih
Managing Partner, Investment Committee Member, SBIA, EMEA of SoftBank Vision Fund
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About SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Simon Murdoch
Managing Partner of Episode 1
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 by Amazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman). Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online sales and profits.
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About Episode 1, StormForward: Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK.
Bernard Liautaud
Managing Partner of Balderton
Bernard Liautaud founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years then Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Business Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994. In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time. Bernard is now a member of the Supervisory Board of SAP. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University. He has received a number of distinctions including Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2007 in France, Time Magazine Europe’s Digital Top 25 and BusinessWeek Stars of Europe of 2002, Top 10 CEOs in North America by Chief Executive Magazine in 2001.
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About Balderton: Balderton is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded startups.
Michael Rosen
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Future Positive Capital
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About Future Positive Capital: Future Positive Capital is an investment firm that invests in deep tech companies.
James Cox
Managing Partner of YYX Capital
James Cox is a Founder & Exec Chairman at Itch Pet. Prior to entering venture investing, James was the Founder of a dynamic hedging Foreign Exchange business, focused on the optimization of share classes in fund management companies, that company now trades in excess of $120 Billion USD of foreign exchange per month. He then has spent the past 8 years advising and funding technology companies from startup to exit – including SuperAwesome, AirSorted, Monese, Waldo and many more. James is also the founder of Simba Sleep, the leading direct to consumer sleep business. Under James’ leadership, as Founder / CEO, Simba grew from zero revenue in February 2016 to $100m+ revenue run rate by March 2018, making it one of the fastest growing consumer businesses on the planet. Simba was rated the number two in the 2018 Startups 100 table and a member of Tech Nations Future Fifty program.
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About Itch, Simba Sleep, YYX Capital: YYX Capital invest in the next generation of innovative consumer companies. We partner with founders of early stage digital first brands.
Yemi Lalude
Managing Partner and Head of TPG Growth’s investments of TPG
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About TPG: TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds.
Sitar Teli
Founder & Managing Partner of Connect Ventures
Sitar Teli is a founder and managing partner of Connect Ventures, a venture firm she and her partners started in 2012. Since its founding, Connect has invested in over 40 companies across Europe, including Fiit, Kheiron, Citymapper, Typeform, OurPath, and Soldo. Prior to starting Connect Ventures, Sitar was at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, where she led that firm’s investment in SoundCloud’s Series A.
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About Connect Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Connect Ventures is a venture capital firm specialized in investments in seed, startup, series A, and early-stage companies.
Verdi Israelyan
Managing Partner of Grishin Robotics
Verdi Israelian is a partner of [Grishin Robotics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grishin-robotics#/entity), a global investment company dedicated to supporting personal robotics around the world. Previously, he served Mail.ru Group, holding various titles such as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Prior to Mail.ru, Israelian co-headed CIS operations of European Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs in Moscow, where he led several private equity investments in consumer, retail, new media, and real estate sectors in Russia and Kazakhstan. Before Goldman Sachs, he was a deputy head of Russia Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and completed multiple IPO and M&A transactions. Israelian holds an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
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About Grishin Robotics: Grishin Robotics is a VC firm, focused on robotics and IoT.
Robert Walsh
Managing Partner of QVentures
Robert Walsh is an investor in over 75 early-stage companies from the Pre-Seed, Seed, Mega Seed, and Series A stage. Over 10 years ago, Robert left investment banking to join the start-up world and has never looked back. As the Managing Partner of QVentures, Robert leads a team in investing and supporting the UK start-up community, proudly boasting a portfolio that is 40% located in the UK regions. Robert is a firm believer in syndicate investing and is a trusted voice among fellow investors, Family Offices, and emerging entrepreneurs. Serving on the boards of seven companies in his portfolio, Robert is passionate about supporting and growing the UK start-up ecosystem and actively hosts educational events to engage the investor community, as well as being a valued speaker and panellist at industry events.
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About QVentures: QVentures is a Venture Capital firm providing direct investment opportunities and fund management.
Steffen Pauls
Founder & Managing Partner of 7 Global Capital
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About 7 Global Capital, 7GC & Co. Holdings, MOMENTAR, Moonfare: 7GC is a boutique private investment firm investing in growth stage technology companies
Stephen Chandler
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Notion Capital
Stephen Chandler is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Notion Capital. An entrepreneur, investor and company builder, with 20 years experience in forming, funding, running, advising and investing in technology businesses, he has been a co-founder of over ten businesses with involvement in dozens more, where he helped a number of leading tech companies develop and execute winning market strategies. He has primary responsibility for the external fundraising activities of the firm and is active in deal origination in SaaS, FinTech and eCommerce enablement in the UK and Nordic region. He is / was the Notion Capital representative on the boards of Tradeshift, Mojn, Selfnet and Star.
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About Notion Capital, SeedCloud: Notion is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on technology and cloud computing markets.
Birgir Ragnarsson
Managing Partner of Novator
Birgir Ragnarsson is the Managing Partner at Novator.
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About Klang Games, Novator: Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by an international investor and entrepreneur.
Nenad Marovac
Managing Partner & CEO of DN Capital
Nenad Marovac has more than 25 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors. Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments. Nenad focuses on investments in marketplaces, software as a service (SAAS), fintech, consumer mobile applications and digital health companies. Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, Hometogo, Hostmaker, Joblift, Mister Spex, Performance Horizon Group, Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding). Nenad is also the Chair of Invest Europe and an active member of YPO in London and Berlin. Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
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About DN Capital: DN Capital operates as an early-stage venture capital firm.
Mark Boggett
CEO & Managing Partner of Seraphim Capital
Mark is CEO and co-founder of Seraphim Capital a spacetech thematic investment firm. The group manages Seraphim Space LP, the world first VC fund focused on spacetech, manages Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc, a $300m London Stock Market Listed growth fund focused on spacetech and Seraphim Space Camp an accelerator for spacetechstartups. Mark has invested into a significant portfolio of spacetech businesses including 4 unicorns in the newspace sector. Seraphim group is the most prolific investo in the spacetech domain.
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About Seraphim Capital: Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem.
Anthony Clarke
Managing Partner of Seraphim Capital
Active Business Angel Investor since 1996. Co-Founder/Managing Partner of £30m Seraphim Capital VC Fund in 2006 and its £67m Seraphim Space VC Fund launched in 2016. Currently Director of City of London based Newable Ventures (formerly London Business Angels). Chairman of EBAN Space since 2016 and Co- Founder and Director of UK Space Tech Angels. Co-Founder and Past Chair of UK Business Angels Association (2004-2012). President of EBAN European Business Angel Network (2004-2009) and currently President Emeritus of EBAN. Chairman of the European Commission’s Expert Group on the Cross-border Matching of Innovative Firms with Suitable Investors in 2011/2012. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary at City of London based Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PWC).
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About Seraphim Capital: Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem.
Nazo Moosa
Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners
Growth capital investor
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About Energy Impact Partners, Paladin Capital Group: Energy Impact Partners is an investment firm focused on companies optimizing energy consumption and improving sustainable energy generation.
Peter Dubens
Founder and Managing Partner of Oakley Capital
Peter is currently the founder and head of Oakley Capital. Prior to founding Oakley, Peter was instrumental in establishing 365 Media as one of the UK’s leading online sports content providers. Peter subsequently led the sale of the company to BSkyB in December 2006 for £110 million. He was also Executive Chairman of Pipex, the AIM listed provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services, where he led the strategic development and execution of 14 acquisitions building one of the UK’s largest broadband suppliers. Pipex was sold for £330 million. Peter has over 21 years of operating experience and over the course of his career has bought, sold and restructured over 40 businesses.
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About Oakley Capital, PROfounders Capital: Oakley Capital is a mid-market private equity investor.
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.
Alan Vaksman
Founder and Managing Partner of Digital Horizon
Alan is the Managing Partner and co-founder of VC and Venture Builder, Digital Horizon. He is also Director at a number of fintech startups including YesGrowth, SteadyPay and ANNA Money UK.
Alan has over 20 years’ experience in the financial sector, having held senior roles at international banks and leading consulting companies in South Africa and Europe including PWC, KPMG, Goldman Sachs and First National Bank. He has lived and worked in numerous countries around the world, and this experience has made Alan a passionate advocate for immigrant-led businesses.
Alan is also a successful startup co-founder. Since founding Digital Horizon, Alan has built and exited Factorin, a blockchain trade finance platform digitizing processes across buyers, sellers, and banks and Aximetria, a Swiss crypto financial services provider. His experience also includes investing in Monday (IPO), Lemonade (IPO), Market Kurly, Carta, Relativity Space and others.
Alan has an economics and psychology bachelor’s degree, a postgraduate law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and an MBA degree from NYU Stern School of business (USA), LSE (UK), HSE (France) under TRIUM eMBA program.
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About Digital Horizon: Digital Horizon is a next generation venture capital firm headquartered in London.
Digital Horizon has substituted the traditional approach to venture capital investment for its ‘new age’ methodology, which accelerates return on investment at every stage, minimizes risk and maximizes profitability. Digital Horizon supports and empowers passionate founders, especially migratory and diverse talents, who are creating enduring and meaningful start-ups.
Digital Horizon manages two multistage funds, a growth fund and a venture builder, and predominantly focuses on the fintech and enterprise software sectors. Its funds have invested in a portfolio of successful start-ups including Klarna, Lemonade, Monday.com, Ably, and Bolt.
Digital Horizon was founded in 2018 by Alan Vaksman, a venture capitalist and banker with over 20 years of experience in UK, Europe, and Africa. It now employs almost 100 specialists with expertise in VC, IT and product development.
Ashley Dunster
Managing Partner of Capital Group
Ashley is a managing partner at Capital International Private Equity with primary responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to this, he was a principal banker in the Early Stage Equity Team at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Ashley holds a BE in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University. Ashley is also a non-executive director of Amoun Pharmaceutical.
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About Capital Group: Founded in 1931, Capital Group provides investment management services for long-term investors and is a private equity firm.
François de Mitry
Managing Partner of Astorg
François de Mitry joined Astorg in 2012 and is a member of the Investment team. He has been involved in a number of transactions including MEGADYNE, LINXENS, IQ-EQ, FLOWBIRD, AUDIOTONIX and ANAQUA. Prior to this, François was with Intermediate Capital Group PLC from 1997. He was appointed Managing Director in 2005, then became progressively responsible for ICG’s investment activities in Mezzanine and Equity worldwide. Previously, he was an Associate Director at the LBO division of Société Générale in London. He began his carrier at the M&A division of HSBC in London. François graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Université de Dauphine Paris IX.
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About Astorg: Astorg is an independent private equity group with over €8 bn of assets under management.
Michael Sackler
Founder & Managing Partner of Supernode Global
Michael Sackler is the Founder and managing partner at Rooks Nest Ventures. He is a film producer of indie hit films like The Witch and Obvious Child, and the one behind film studio Rooks Nest Entertainment.
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About Huckletree, Supernode Global: Supernode Global is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in media-tech.
Maria Dramalioti-Taylor
Managing Partner of Beacon Capital
Maria is the founding managing partner of Beacon, pre-Series A VC firm specialising on enterprise tech ventures. She is on the board of a number of portfolio companies, is a member of the RAEng Enterprise and the Chairs in Emerging Technologies Committees, INSEAD EIR and Included.VC Board member. She is an engineer and holds an MBA. She used to fence the foil so watch out for her ripostes!
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About Beacon Capital: Investor of choice for post-seed enterprise tech founders
Udayan Goyal
Managing Partner of Apis Partners
Udayan is a keen proponent of technology driven reformation in banking and financial services and has exceptional domain expertise in this space. He is the Founder and co-Managing Partner of Apis Partners LLC, a $250m private equity fund focussed on investing in financial services companies in Africa and South Asia. He is a Founder Partner at Anthemis Group and is a prolific investor, having had seed investments in (Bank)Simple, Azimo, Ininal, IOCS, Huddlebuy and Earthport. He serves as a Board Director with Moven and Zyfin and also advises several digital financial startups, including those in the Anthemis Group portfolio. He has led a number of innovation projects including, most recently, Zapp, the UK mobile payments system sponsored by Vocalink and being adopted by the UK banks. Udayan is a much sought after commentator on digital finance and curates the very popular “Future of Money” annual session at Innotribe, SIBOS, where he also serves as a member of the board. He was formerly the Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Technology Advisory at Deutsche Bank AG in the Global Financial Institutions Group based in London. Prior to Deutsche, Udayan had specific responsibility for developing the pan-European specialty finance practice of Credit Suisse with a focus on financial technology. Udayan graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with an MA (NatSci Tripos).
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About Apis Partners: Apis Partners is a private equity asset manager focused on Financial Services in Growth Markets.
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.
Mohsen M. Khalkhali
Managing Partner of Iratel Ventures
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About Iratel Ventures: Iratel Ventures is a VC firm investing in entrepreneurs building global companies at seed and early stage.
Ahmad Butt
CEO and Managing Partner of Jetstone Asset Management
Ahmad Butt is a CEO and Managing Partner of Jetstone Asset Management.
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About Jetstone Asset Management: Jetstone Asset Management is a boutique asset management firm.
Simon Turner
Managing Partner of Inflexion Private Equity
Simon co-founded Inflexion with John Hartz in 1999. Together they jointly chair our Investment Committee. Simon has 30 years’ experience of developing and leading buyouts for growth businesses, having started his private equity career in the early 1990s. He and John co-founded Daiwa Europe’s Private Equity Group, which they ultimately spun out to form Inflexion. When not working, Simon leads Inflexion’s involvement in The Prince’s Trust, is a trustee of Impetus-The Private Equity Foundation, and chair of The Roundhouse. He has skied to both the North and South Pole as part of the Antarctic Enterprise, raising over one million pounds for charity. Simon also enjoys playing tennis and golf and holds an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.
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About Inflexion Private Equity: Inflexion is a mid-market private equity firm, investing in high growth businesses.
Kevin Dillon
Managing Partner of Atlantic Bridge
Kevin has 24 years’ operating experience in the technology sector, including a total of 13 years operational experience in Paris, London and Dublin as an executive in the software industry and five years in Silicon Valley. Kevin served as Vice President, Microsoft EMEA and helped grow the regional business from $500 million in 1991 to $9.5 billion in 2004. At Microsoft, Kevin was a member of Microsoft EMEAs’ senior management team responsible for various roles in Finance, Operations and Sales and Marketing. At Microsoft, Kevin developed a substantial network of European and U.S. channel partners, outsourcing partners and service providers to technology companies. He was responsible for various EMEA finance functions, product manufacturing, distribution, logistics and merger and acquisition integration, licensing and subsidiary development, customer care and channel management. He supported and was jointly responsible for the formation of many new subsidiaries, functions and lines of business. This included working with local management in establishing financial, operational and customer functions in more than 20 subsidiaries. Kevin established the European Operations Centre in Dublin, hiring up to 700 people and serving all of Microsoft�s customers in Europe, Africa and the Middle East while becoming one of Ireland’s top revenue generating companies. He outsourced more than 500 manufacturing jobs between 1997 and 2000 and closed down this function internally, replacing it with customer and partner roles. He was also responsible for building the operational infrastructure for the successful launch of Xbox as a new product and line of business within Europe. He led Microsoft’s EMEA customer care, customer satisfaction, loyalty and related programs. From 1985 through 1991, Kevin was an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. In that capacity, he helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to 1985, Kevin practiced law in South Africa, including serving as a Legal Officer in the South African Navy. He is a frequent industry speaker and was ICT Ireland Industry Person of the Year in 2001 and elected a fellow of the Irish Management Institute in 2000. He holds various degrees in Business, Finance, Taxation & Law and is an Attorney at Law, Certified Public Accountant and Certified Investment Manager. Kevin is a director on the boards of Panda (where he is Chairman), PolarLake and GeoVector and is an observer on the board of Acision.
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About Atlantic Bridge: Atlantic Bridge Capital is a global growth equity technology fund.
David Klein
Managing Partner of One Peak Partners
David is a co-founder and Managing Partner of One Peak Partners. Prior to One Peak, he was a senior investment professional at growth equity fund Summit Partners in London where he was responsible for sourcing and executing technology and healthcare investments across Europe and Israel. He also led technology investments at Morgan Stanley Principal Investments. Throughout his career, David has sourced and led the execution of investments totaling more than €300 million, with a focus on software and communications technology. He also served on the boards of 9 portfolio companies.
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About One Peak Partners: One Peak is a specialist private equity firm focused on growth stage technology and tech-enabled companies.
Humbert de Liedekerke
Managing Partner of One Peak Partners
Humbert is a co-founder and Managing Partner of One Peak Partners. Prior to One Peak, he was a senior investment professional at growth equity fund AnaCap Financial Partners in London where he was responsible for tech-enabled financial services investments across Europe. He also led financial technology and healthcare investments at Morgan Stanley Principal Investments. Throughout his career, Humbert has sourced and led the execution of investments totalling more than €500 million and served on the boards of 10 portfolio companies. Before joining Morgan Stanley Principal Investments, Humbert worked in the Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley in London, advising clients on M&A and capital markets transactions. Prior to this, Humbert held an analyst position at ABN AMRO and worked as business development manager for Umicore in China. Humbert speaks English, Dutch, and French. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Relations from London School of Economics and a Master’s degree in General Management from Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium.
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About One Peak Partners: One Peak is a specialist private equity firm focused on growth stage technology and tech-enabled companies.
Babatunde Soyoye
Managing Partner of Helios Investment Partners
Mr. Soyoye holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He is a co-founder of Helios Investment Partners and a Board member of Africatel Holdings B.V.
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About Helios Investment Partners: Helios Investment Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm that focuses on African companies.
Matthew Brockman
Managing Partner of Hg
Matthew Brockman is a Managing Partner, Chair of the Hg Investment Committees and is a member of the Hg board. Matthew focuses on day to day leadership of the firm including the Genesis and Mercury funds. Matthew joined Hg in 2010 and originally led the development of the software focused Mercury funds, acting across many of the investments in that fund including Allocate, Intelliflo and Sequel Business Solutions. He remains a board member of several Hg fund investments including Mitratech and Achilles. Prior to joining Hg, Matthew was a Partner at Apax Partners and has a B.Eng (1st class) from Imperial College, London and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
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About Hg: Hg is a private equity firm that invests in software and services, focused on backing businesses.
Jeremy Hand
Founding Member & Managing Partner of Horizon Capital
Jeremy co-founded Lyceum. He works on sourcing and executing investment opportunities and currently sits on the Boards of Access, Clearswift and SGP. Before Lyceum, Jeremy was a founding shareholder and partner of Duke Street Capital. Jeremy is a past Chairman of the BVCA. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) and holds a joint degree in computer science and accountancy from Manchester University where he is also an honorary teaching fellow.
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About Horizon Capital: Horizon Capital private equity firm invests in high-growth technology and business services companies.
Matus Maar
Managing Partner Ventures & Co-Founder of Talis Capital
Matus is both an experienced entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Pirate Studios – the world’s largest chain of music rehearsal studios, fully autonomous and live streaming equipped, he has also been involved since inception with Threads – the pioneering chat-based ecommerce platform. As an investor he has led or closed over 50 private equity and venture capital deals. Matus enjoys early stage investing, working closely with the entrepreneurs. Matus represents (or did in past) Talis on various boards for companies such as Onfido, iwoca, Pirate Studios, Threads, Import.io, eporta, Narrativ, Price f(x) and others. Matus is passionate about world changing technology companies and spending time with entrepreneurs who are building them. Matus loves travelling and experiencing different cultures, he has lived in six countries and speaks five languages.
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About Talis Capital: Investing on behalf of a community of cross-sector entrepreneurs, we back founders who see the future differently.
Vasile Foca
Managing Partner & Co-founder of Talis Capital
Vasile is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Talis Capital with more than 20 years of investment and entrepreneurial experience. Over his career, Vasile has helped scale a vast number of organisations from all stages of the business lifecycle. He holds (or did in the past) board positions on the boards of Darktrace, Luminance, IWOCA, Homelyfe, Learning People, PassTheKeys, CensorNet, PremFina, Beyond, Cygnet (among many others). He has actively contributed to key strategic decisions with a hands-on approach. Vasile also has extensive experience in building and scaling companies and is co-founder of several businesses including INTRESCO, Cygnet and Skwire. Vasile holds an MBA degree from London Business School and speaks Russian and Spanish. He enjoys digital photography, psychology, wine tasting and travelling.
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About Talis Capital: Investing on behalf of a community of cross-sector entrepreneurs, we back founders who see the future differently.
Francesco Loredan
Co-Chairman and Managing Partner of BC Partners
Mr. Francesco Loredan serves as a Founder and Member of Advisory Board of Innogest SGR S.p.A, where he was a Director. Mr. Loredan served as Co-Managing Partner and a Co-Chairman at BC Partners. He joined BC Partners in 1989. Prior to this, he served at the Boston Consulting Group for four years, where he worked on assignments in France and Italy. Previously, he spent three years in corporate finance at Bank of America Corporation as a Credit Officer. He serves as the Chairman of Mark IV Industries Inc., U.S.A. He serves as Non-Executive Director of Heating Finance PLC. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Interpump Group SPA. He served as a Director of Baxi Group Ltd from January 16, 2004 to February 18, 2008. He speaks Italian, English, French, and Spanish. Mr. Loredan has an M.B.A. from INSEAD and holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About BC Partners: BC Partners is an international alternative investment firm focused private equity, credit, real estate, and investment strategies.
Gil Dibner
Founder & Managing Partner of Angular Ventures
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About Angular Ventures, Imubit: Angular Ventures is a specialist venture capital firm backing early-stage deep technology enterprise companies.
Patrick Hable
Managing Partner, Founder of 2iQ Research
Patrick is a founding member and Managing Director of 2iQ Research. He is responsible for sales and business development. Prior to his work with 2iQ, Patrick Hable spent four years working in the portfolio management division of DWS, Germany’s leading fund management company, and was responsible for the portfolio management of various European equity funds.
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About 2iQ Research: 2iQ is the leading Insider Transaction data provider with a global coverage of 60,000+ stocks.
Warwick Hunt
Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Edward Barroll Brown
Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Grafton Capital
Ed is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Grafton Capital, which makes growth stage investments in tech-enabled businesses. Ed is a board director of Third Financial Software, Alva Reputation, SportPursuit and HomeViews.
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About Grafton Capital: Grafton Capital is a provider of growth capital to founder-owned, tech-enabled companies.
Craig Netterfield
Managing Partner of Columbia Lake Partners
CLP’s Founding Partner. Over 13 years’ venture lending experience in North America and Europe. Previously Partner at Wellington Financial. Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Lindsey McMurray
Managing Partner of Pollen Street Capital
Lindsey McMurray is the Managing Partner and Co-founder of Pollen Street Capital, an independent alternative investment management company, which has focused on accelerating the growth of the financial and business services sectors. Lindsey founded Pollen Street Capital in 2013, and it has since grown into a team of 70+ professionals with offices in London and New York City. Today, the company operates across private equity and credit strategies on behalf of investors. These include leading pension funds, asset managers, banks, and family offices from across the globe. Beyond this role, Lindsey McMurray is also Chair of the Pollen Street Capital private equity and credit investment committees, while she also serves as a non-executive director on the boards of several of Pollen Street Capital’s portfolio companies, including Shawbrook Bank, Oplo, and Freedom Finance. Lindsey has been a private equity investor for more than 25 years with a particular focus on the financial services sector. Before she founded Pollen Street Capital, she led the Principal Finance business for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Throughout her time at RBS. Lindsey also successful structured and carried out several credit investments on behalf of the bank, which included a £200m infrastructure finance deal in 2006. Moreover, from 2007, Lindsey led the launch of the £1.1bn Special Opportunities Fund within RBS. Prior to her time at RBS, Lindsey McMurray spent six years as a Partner at Cabot Square Capital, focusing on operating investments in real estate and other asset backed investments, together with investments in the financial services sector. She has a First Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance and studied for an MPhil in Finance from Strathclyde University. Outside of work Lindsey McMurray is a keen runner having successfully completed the Marathon Des Sables twice in 2007 and 2011. She also supports several charities with a particular focus on mentoring children in state schools as a trustee for the Future First charity, supporting climate action initiatives through producing documentary films, as well as supporting the speech and language charity, Auditory Verbal UK, that provided early years therapy to her daughter Grace.
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About Pollen Street Capital: Pollen Street Capital is an independent alternative investment manager, focused on investing in the financial and business services sectors
Mark Pearson
Managing Partner of Fuel Ventures
Mark is an award winning digital entrepreneur having achieved multiple successful exits over the last decade. Mark takes an active role in mentoring the Fund’s portfolio of companies.
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About Fuel Ventures, Groupola.com, HushHush, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk: Fuel Ventures is a technology fund investing in marketplaces, fintech, platforms, and SaaS companies.
Melanie Hayes
Managing Partner and Investment Director of Bethnal Green Ventures
Melanie leads on our operations and helps our ventures raise further investment. She was previously an investment manager at Octopus Investments and Channel 4’s Innovation for the Public (4iP)
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About Bethnal Green Ventures: Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe’s leading early stage tech for good VC.
Robert Knorr
Co-Managing Partner of Mid Europa Partners
Robert is the Co-Managing Partner at Mid Europa Partners. He co-chairs the Investment Committee and Management Committee of the firm. He is also head of the Budapest office. Prior to joining the team, Robert worked with Bankers Trust in London and Deutsche Bank in Milan.
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About Mid Europa Partners: Mid Europa Partners is a private equity firm specializing in private buyouts.
Matthew Strassberg
Co-Managing Partner of Mid Europa Partners
Matthew is the Co-Managing Partner at Mid Europa Partners. He co-chairs the Investment Committee and Management Committee of the firm. He is also co-head of the Warsaw office. Prior to joining the team, he worked in the leveraged finance team at Merrill Lynch in London. Previously, he worked in the M&A department at J.P. Morgan in London and New York. Matthew began his career in New York where he worked at Merrill Lynch and TLC Capital Partners, the investment firm of Reginald F. Lewis.
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About Mid Europa Partners: Mid Europa Partners is a private equity firm specializing in private buyouts.
Alex Fortescue
Managing Partner of Epiris
Alex joined Electra Partners as Chief Investment Partner in 2011. Prior to this he spent eleven years at private equity firm Apax Partners, where he was Global Head of the Retail and Consumer Group. Before Apax he spent nine years at OC&C Strategy Consultants where he focused on corporate strategy and private equity commercial due diligence. In total he has more than 20 years Private Equity experience. Alex chairs Electra Partners’ Management Committee and is a member of its Investment Committee. He sits on the boards of Electra Partners’ portfolio companies AXIO Data Group, Parkdean Resorts, Davies, Hotter Shoes and Knight Square. He has a first class degree in Electronic Engineering from Imperial College, and an MBA from INSEAD. He is a keen sailor and cyclist.
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About Epiris: Epiris is an independent private equity firm.
Paul Shea
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beechbrook Capital
Paul is co-founder and Managing Partner of Beechbrook Capital, where he is responsible for originating and executing private debt and equity co-investment opportunities. He sits on the Investment Committee for the Private Debt Funds and the UK SME Credit Fund. Beechbrook invests in the UK and Northern European lower mid-market by financing new buy out transactions or providing expansion or acquisition finance. Beechbrook have made over 45 investments to date and continue to benefit from a lack of debt finance from traditional providers to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Beechbrook has raised over €550m to date across four separate funds. Before starting up Beechbrook in 2008, Paul worked in the investment banking division of Schroders before joining MetLife to invest in European leverage loans, high yield bonds, mezzanine and private placements. He graduated from Oxford University in 1996 with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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About Beechbrook Capital: Beechbrook Capital provides mezzanine finance and equity co-investments to support buy-outs of businesses by private equity.
Daniel Sasaki
Managing Partner of Mayfair Equity Partners
Daniel joined LDC in 2008 from Hemisphere Capital, where he was a co-founder and Managing Partner. He has over 17 years of private equity experience; prior to LDC, he held senior investment roles at the Private Equity Division of Credit Suisse First Boston and SOFTBANK Inc. Daniel has invested across a broad range of transactions and sectors, from early stage growth capital to large leveraged buy-outs. Representative exits include ESAT Telecom (Irish mobile operator listed on NASDAQ), the ComplEATFood Group(UK premium food category manager) and Gala Coral Group (UK diversified gambling company). Raised in the US, Daniel has a law degree from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He sits on the boards of several portfolio companies, including Easynet, Fever-Tree, UK2 and Ocean Outdoor.
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About Mayfair Equity Partners: Mayfair Equity Partners provides buyout and growth capital to dynamic businesses in the TMT and Consumer sectors.
Andrew Wordsworth
Managing Partner, CEO of Sustainable Ventures
Andrew is our executive chairman and responsible for fundraising, partnership negotiation and long term strategic management. He firmly believes that the electric transport revolution is well underway, and that car clubs like E-Car can not only reduce emissions but make transport more affordable and more convenient for communities across the country. With over ten years’ experience in the sustainability and renewables sector, he knows that organisations like this can’t survive on their carbon credentials alone. They need to provide a new solution which is both more cost effective and better suited to people’s needs. He’s very much a “hands on” Chairman and you’re more likely to see him on the street checking out the cars or talking to customers in the call centre than in the board room. Andrew holds a first-class MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded the University Fox Prize.
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About E-Car Club, Sustainable Ventures: Sustainable Ventures offers entrepreneurs with workspaces, accelerator programs, and support to develop their businesses.
Thomas Depuydt
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of SmartFin
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About iMinds, SmartFin: SmartFin operates as an early stage venture capital fund with a focus on companies developing smart technologies.
Olav Ostin
Managing Partner of TempoCap
Olav is a Managing Partner of DFJ Esprit Secondaries and has been involved with the venture capital industry for the past 12 years. He has a particular focus on telecom and media industry and leads the firm’s presence in France, Germany, and the Nordic region. Olav has been involved with the acquisition of some of the largest European secondary direct venture portfolios, such as Viventures (14 assets), Siemens Mobile (25 assets), and WestLB (19 assets) portfolios. In 2006, Olav co-founded Tempo Capital Partners, a specialist direct secondary venture investment firm, when the venture division of Nova Capital Management Limited which Olav had co-led with David Tate since 2004 was de-merged to form Tempo. In February 2012, Tempo joined the DFJ Network to form DFJ Esprit Secondaries. Between 2000 and 2004, he was a Managing Director of the ETF Group, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for sponsoring and managing all investments in the UK and the Nordic region. Before ETF, he spent over 6 years in investment banking at Enskilda Securities where he was a Director and the Head of the technology team in London.
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About TempoCap: TempoCap is a growth and secondary direct venture investment firm.
David Tate
Managing Partner of TempoCap
David is a Managing Partner of DFJ Esprit Secondaries and has been involved with the venture capital industry since 1998. In 2006, David co-founded Tempo Capital Partners, a specialist direct secondary venture investment firm, when the venture division of Nova Capital Management Limited which David had co-led since 2004 was de-merged to form Tempo. In February 2012, Tempo joined the DFJ Network to form DFJ Esprit Secondaries. David has been involved with the acquisition of some of the largest European secondary direct venture portfolios, such as Viventures (14 assets), Siemens Mobile (25 assets), and WestLB (19 assets) portfolios. He has a particular focus on software, including SaaS, investments. Prior to 2004, David was the Head of Investments and an Executive Director at WestLB Panmure, where he was responsible for sponsoring and managing 10 venture investments in WestLB & Panmure Growth Fund, including Wolfson Microelectronics, a £200m IPO in 2003. Before WestLB Panmure, he spent over 15 years in investment banking, first at BZW and then at WestLB Group. His initial experience was in accountancy and management consultancy with Deloitte & Co. David is a Chartered Accountant and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, University College in London, and has completed the AMP at INSEAD.
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About TempoCap: TempoCap is a growth and secondary direct venture investment firm.
Samer Salty
Managing Partner of Zouk Capital
Samer Salty is the Founder and CEO of Zouk Capital. He has 27 years experience in private equity, investment banking and technology. Samer oversees both the strategic direction of the firm and the investment process. Zouk’s distinctive dual track strategy, consisting of cleantech growth capital and renewable energy infrastructure, was designed and implemented by Samer. His vision for sustainability started with his investment in The Carbon Neutral Company in 2000 and his philosophy is to make investments that both create economic value and build on sustainable principals. Prior to Zouk, Samer was at JP Morgan where he led many private equity and advisory transactions in the technology and telecom sector. Samer began his career designing and managing the development of air traffic control computer and telecom systems for a number of Fortune 500 clients and government aviation authorities in the US. Samer holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from California Polytechnic and a M.S. in Management and Finance from MIT. He also sits on the International Council of the Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Centre, and the Advisory Board of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Zouk Capital: Zouk Capital is an independent private equity fund manager investing in companies that advance resource efficiency.
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
Will Fraser-Allen
Managing Partner of Albion Capital Group
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About Albion Capital Group, AlbionVC: Albion Capital Group is an independent investment manager with a long-term record of backing change and growth.
Patrick Reeve
Founder, Chairman and Managing Partner of Albion Capital Group
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About Albion Capital Group: Albion Capital Group is an independent investment manager with a long-term record of backing change and growth.
Guy Gillon
Co-Founder and joint Managing Partner of Tenzing
Guy is one of the Founders at Tenzing and leads on relationships with management teams. Tenzing invests in profitable, high growth, UK and Northern European-based SMEs valued between £10m and £200m.
The firm loves to back highly ambitious management teams with which they have a shared vision, and to support their growth through their founder-led growth team.
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About Tenzing: Tenzing invests in high-growth UK and Northern European SMEs valued between £10m and £200m – we work with niche market leaders.
Christian Hamilton
Co-Founder and joint Managing Partner of Tenzing
Christian is Co-Founder and joint Managing Partner at Tenzing. He leads on investment strategies and investor relations.
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About Tenzing: Tenzing invests in high-growth UK and Northern European SMEs valued between £10m and £200m – we work with niche market leaders.
Jermaine Trotman
Managing Partner of Nimble AppGenie
Jermaine Trotman is a Founder of Nimble Appgenie, a company that provides mobile app development services in iOS and Android platforms for global clients. He loves to write on mobile technologies, app development, startups, entrepreneurship, and mobile app marketing.
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About Nimble AppGenie: Nimble AppGenie is leading Mobile App development company in the USA. Also, we provides you highly customized, cost-efficient apps.
Garry Jensen
Managing Partner of Jensen Partners
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About Jensen Partners: Dedicated to sourcing strategic capital
Matt Taylor
Managing Partner of Rockpool Investments LLP
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About Rockpool Investments LLP: Rockpool offers direct investment into established UK private companies with the reassurance of thorough due diligence.
Gregoire Naacke
Managing Partner of IEM-Finance
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About IEM-Finance: IEM-Finance provides consultation services and solutions on financial management of businesses.
