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This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a Director 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.
Simon Marsh
Marketing Procurement Director of Dell EMC
Simon has been at Dell EMC since 2010 as a procurement manager for indirect spend, and is now Marketing Procurement Director. Previously he was at BP.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Stevie Buckley
Director of Talent of Permutive
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Tracy Figliola
Director of Global Mobility and Global HR Shared Services of Equinix
Tracy Figliola Responsible for the strategy, policy and execution of all Global Mobility services for the Equinix Group. Building a first class Global Mobility program to facilitate and enable a growth business agenda and nurture talent. In addition global responsibility for HR Shared Services, building the function to deliver core HR services to Equinix. At Equinix, Tracy is part of a dynamic and fast growing team working to deliver significant customer value to organisations who are increasingly viewing their data center strategy as a source of competitive advantage.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Michael Winterson
Managing Director of Equinix
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About Equinix, SixFortyEight: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Steve Howden
M&A, Investments and Strategy Director of IHS Towers
As M&A, Investments and Strategy Director, Steve is responsible for managing IHS’s growth strategy, executing M&A transactions, related equity and debt financings, as well as other strategic initiatives. He joined IHS in 2013 and since then has executed over $5 billion of capital raisings and 13 transactions. His role is to help develop and execute IHS’s long-term growth strategy. Steve has over 12 years of corporate finance experience and has completed more than 16 African tower transactions and 12 financings. Previously he was a member of the Ernst & Young M&A department and in the Corporate Restructuring team at Ernst & Young and Andersen. Steve is a Chartered Accountant who trained at Ernst & Young in London and has a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Bath in the UK.
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About IHS Towers: IHS is a mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider.
Cheryl Hung
Director of Ecosystem of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Cheryl is an ex-Google software engineer with a passion for developer tools, experience and community. She founded the Cloud Native London meetup and codes, writes and speaks about containers, storage and cloud computing.
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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Mike Greening
Product Director of CityFibre
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
John Franklin
Director of Engineering & CTIO of CityFibre
John Franklin is the director of engineering at [CityFibre](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cityfibre#/entity), an independent provider of fiber infrastructure. He was previously the chief operating officer of euNetworks. Franklin spent a number of years working in the telecoms industry for companies such as British Telecom, Level 3 Communications, Alcatel Telecommunications, and GPT Telecommunications. Most recently he was cluster director at British Telecom.
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Lola Fernandez-Redondo
Senior Associate Director of Jacobs
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About Jacobs: Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world.
Richard Little
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
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About Azur Group, CENTURY Tech, Concirrus, IQ Capital, Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Prodigy Finance, PROfounders Capital, Thought Machine, Trainline: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Bhavin Shah
Regional Director, EMEA of Telekom Malaysia
Bhavin Shah Regional Director, EMEA at Telekom Malaysia.
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About Telekom Malaysia: As the leading integrated telecommunications company in Malaysia, we aim to deliver cutting-edge communications & information.
Jon Koplin
Managing Director EMEAR, Cisco Investments and Corporate Development of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Coline McConville
Non Executive Director of 3i Group
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Andrew Cox
Director of 3i Group
Andrew joined 3i in November 2006 having spent three years with Ambac Assurance in London leading an initiative to expand their franchise into the Continental European infrastructure market and latterly heading up their European Utilities team. Previously, he worked for six years in the Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Infrastructure Advisory Group, where he worked on transactions both domestically and internationally, on the buy-side and the sell-side, covering the roads, airports, power, water and waste sectors. Andrew has an MA in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Rowena Gracey
Director, Private Equity Team of 3i Group
Rowena joined 3i in 2007 and is an Associate Director in the Private Equity team. Rowena focuses on origination and execution of investments in the UK and leads 3i’s activity in the UK Healthcare sector. Deals she has worked on include 3i’s minority investment in Phibro, the sale of Unirea to Advent International, and further investments in Hobbs and MDY Healthcare. Previously, she has undertaken internships in Healthcare venture capital at Scottish Equity Partners and for boutique funds management group Quest Asset Partners, Sydney. Rowena has a B. Advanced Science/Commerce degree from the University of Sydney, Australia and spent one year of her degree on exchange studying Economics at Royal Holloway, London University.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Aaron Church
Director of 3i Group
Aaron joined 3i in 2013 as a Director in the Infrastructure team in the London office, with a primary focus on investment origination and execution in the midstream energy and transportation sectors. Prior to 3i, Aaron worked for HRL Morrison & Co, a major Australasian-based infrastructure fund manager, where he also focused on investments in the midstream energy and transportation sectors. Prior to this, Aaron was a Project Leader for the Boston Consulting Group where he primarily worked for clients in the industrial goods sector in Australasia and North America. Aaron holds a B.Com from the University of Canterbury and a M.B.A. (Distinction) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
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About 3i Group, Attero B.V., Joulz, Oiltanking: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Joanna Thomson
Active Partnership Practice Director of 3i Group
Jo Thomson is the Active Partnership Practice Director. Prior to joining 3i, Jo spent over 14 years with Ernst & Young, initially in their Transaction Advisory Services group and most recently as Operations Director for their Global Private Equity team. Jo is responsible for the core parts of Active Partnership which are not led by the deal teams: e.g. the delivery of key events such as the CEO and CFO Forums, organising Active Partnership related training and creating visibility of advisor performance on Active Partnership initiatives. She is also responsible for the marketing and internal communications for the Private Equity business.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Joy McCormack
Director, Board Development of 3i Group
Joy heads up 3i’s Business Leaders Network, working as part of our international investment team to help connect with Chairmen, CEOs, advisors and other senior board level management for both our existing portfolio companies and in pre-deal situations. Prior to joining 3i, Joy was at Skillcapital, working exclusively with private equity funds across Europe to recruit buy-in management teams for LBOs and board level management for PE portfolio companies. Joy began her career in finance with Goldman Sachs and spent five years working in the Private Wealth Management division, with a focus on asset allocation strategies. She holds a first class honours Masters degree in Quantitative Finance from University College Dublin.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Rupert Howard
Director of 3i Group
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About 3i Group, MPM: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
George Archer
Senior Director – Banking of 3i Group
George joined 3i’s Banking Team as a Director in July 2011. The Banking Team is responsible for the firm’s relationship with its financing institutions and provides specialist in-house debt financing advice and support to the private equity activities of 3i and its portfolio companies. George has worked on financing transactions for many of 3i’s portfolio companies, including Action, Basic Fit, Element, Eltel, ESG, Lekolar and OneMed. He has 19 years of banking experience, having started his career with Barclays Bank in 1994. George subsequently worked for Barclays Capital (1997-2000), Bank of America (2000-2003) and The Royal Bank of Scotland (2003-2011). Over the bulk of this period, he specialised in the origination, structuring and execution of European leveraged debt transactions in a lead capacity. George has also held positions in leveraged loan syndications and in corporate restructuring. George holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College (University of London), a BSc (Hons) degree in Financial Services from UMIST and a MSc degree in Operational Research from Strathclyde University.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Alastair Richardson
Director, Head of Legal of 3i Group
Alastair is Director, Head of Legal for 3i’s Private Equity team, with responsibility for legal risk management and the provision of legal support for new investments, portfolio matters, exits and fundraising activities to 3i’s international private equity business. Alastair works closely with 3i’s international deal teams on transactions across 3i’s private equity business. Alastair joined 3i in 1998 from the law firm, Nabarro LLP, where he worked as an associate specialising in international corporate M&A and private equity. He holds a BA joint honours degree in Economics & Law from Durham University and is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales.
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About 3i Group, Nabarro LLP: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
David Stephens
Director of 3i Group
David focuses on originating, executing and representing 3i on the boards of Private Equity investments across Europe. He predominantly focuses on 3i’s activities in the Industrial sector in the UK, but has also spent significant time on deal execution in the US. Recent deals David has worked on include 3i’s investments in Aspen Pumps, the global market leader in condensate removal pumps, in the UK; Ohio-based Q Holding, manufacturer of precision moulded rubber and silicone components for the auto and medical industries; Wisconsin-headquartered Dynatect, manufacturer of critical components designed to protect and elongate equipment lifetime and promote worker safety; and the sale of London-based Civica, the international provider of specialist IT systems and business process services. David is currently a Director on the board of ESG and an Observer on the board of Agent Provocateur. Prior to joining 3i, David worked in investment banking at DC Advisory Partners, advising clients on European mid-market M&A.
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About 3i Group: 3i is an international investment manager focused on mid-market Private Equity, Infrastructure & Debt Management.
Heleen Snelting
Director Data Science EMEA of TIBCO
Heleen Snelting is Director Data Science EMEA at TIBCO, where she and her team help TIBCO customers optimise business and operational processes through the use of advanced analytics. She previously held international roles at market- and shopper research company IRI. Heleen is passionate about knowledge sharing and is an active TIBCO Community contributor.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Simon Evans
Director, Digital Engineering of SNC Lavalin
Simon Evans is the Director, Digital Engineering at SNC-Lavalin.
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About SNC Lavalin: SNC-Lavalin is an engineering and construction group.
Neil Sawyer
Commercial Channel & Edu/SMB Director of HP
Neil Sawyer is Director of Education for HP in the UK&I. Over the last 15 years Neil has developed a broad knowledge of the key solutions, partnerships and insights that have helped a number of schools, colleges and Universities in their decision making and investment in educational technology.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Pankaj Kulshrestha
Co Founder & Director of Eastcastle Infrastructure
Pankaj Kulshrestha joined Eastcastle Infrastructure as Co Founder & Director in 2020.
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About Eastcastle Infrastructure: Eastcastle Infrastructure is a company specializing in Africa’s telecoms tower sector.
Peter Lewis
Co-Founder & Director of Eastcastle Infrastructure
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About Eastcastle Infrastructure: Eastcastle Infrastructure is a company specializing in Africa’s telecoms tower sector.
David Ladipo
Managing Director of Azura-Edo IPP
David Ladipo is the managing director of Azura-Edo. David earned his PhD at University of Cambridge.
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About Azura-Edo IPP: Azura-Edo IPP is a 450MW open cycle gas turbine power station being constructed near Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria.
Jonty Graham
Director, Head of Institutional Capital of Foresight Group
Jonty Graham joined Foresight Group in 2015 and currently works as a Director and the Head of the Institutional Capital team in the London office. He has over 10 years of experience. Jonty is responsible for building and managing relationships with institutional clients, through fundraising, strategy and deal co-ordination across all mandates and geographies. Prior to joining Foresight Jonty worked at Bloomberg as a Senior Relationship Manager where he focused on sales of Fixed Income Cash and Derivatives products to Investment Banks, Pension Funds, Asset Managers, Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds across EMEA. He has also held roles at a merchant bank, a global real estate investor, and was a Second Lieutenant in the British Army. Jonty holds an MA in Classics and French from Edinburgh University, and has an Investment Management Certificate from CFA UK.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Hugi Clarke
Director of Foresight Group
Hugi Clarke joined Foresight Group in 2016 and currently works as a Director in the London office. He has over 19 years of experience. Hugi is responsible for developing sales, marketing and customer satisfaction for Foresight. Prior to joining Foresight Hugi worked at Octopus as an Area Director where he focused on managing a regional sales team. He has also worked as a Sales Manager at Zurich, managing a regional team. Hugi holds a BSc in Psychology from Nottingham Trent University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Rodney Appiah
Director of Foresight Group
Rodney joined Foresight in 2016 from the Business Growth Fund where he spent 5 years providing minority growth capital and board support to UK SMEs. Prior to BGF, Rodney was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, advising PE sponsors and TMT corporates on leveraged finance transactions and M&A activity. In his spare time, Rodney is a business advisor to a number of start-up businesses and a school governor for an East London based Academy. Rodney holds a Bsc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Louise Chesworth
Director, Head of Institutional Investor Relations of Foresight Group
Louise Chesworth joined Foresight Group in 2015 and currently works as Director and Head of Institutional Investor Relations in the London office. She has 17 years of experience. Louise is responsible for the management and development of Foresight’s relationships with institutional investors and oversees client reporting. Prior to joining Foresight, Louise worked at Hermes GPE as an Investor Relations Manager, responsible for the group’s private equity and infrastructure clients. She also worked in IR at Gartmore Private Equity prior to the merger with Hermes Private Equity, and was previously a private equity journalist with Thomson Financial. Louise holds a BA in European History from the University of East Anglia.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
John Holden
Director of Foresight Group
John joined Foresight in November 2016 to work on deploying the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund and is a specialist investor in technology. John has worked in and managed technology investment teams at businesses such as 3i Group, ANGLE and Imperial Innovations, where he spent five years investing in and working with early stage technology and medtech companies, before working on his own advisory and funding businesses. John is a graduate of Durham University and has a MBA with Distinction from Cranfield University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Suzie Ruffley
Director, Head of People of Foresight Group
Suzie Ruffley joined Foresight in January 2017 to set up Foresight’s HR function, she is a Director and the Head of People. Suzie has 14 years of HR experience and is responsible for all aspects of people strategy across the group. Prior to joining Foresight Suzie was Head of HR Operations at Royal Botanical Kew and before that held a breadth of HR roles for State Street. Suzie holds a MSc in Occupational Psychology from Liverpool John Moores University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Ben Thompson
Group Marketing Director of Foresight Group
Ben Thompson joined Foresight Group in 2011 and currently works as the Group Marketing Director in the London office. With over thirty years of integrated communications experience both on the agency side and within financial companies, Ben is responsible for marketing activities for the group, including brand and corporate communications for all offices. Prior to joining Foresight Ben was Marketing Director at Espirito Santo Investment Bank where he focused on launching the Portuguese bank into the London market. Ben holds a BA in Music from Durham University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Sarah Cole
Director, Institutional Capital of Foresight Group
Sarah joined Foresight in 2012 and is responsible for Foresight’s institutional client relationships. Prior to joining the firm, Sarah started her career at Barclays in corporate finance and has focused upon institutional investors and their alternative investments since 2004, establishing Citigroup’s European Capital Introductions effort, followed by 3 years in the US advising public and corporate pension funds on hedge fund portfolios totalling over $3bn, before joining Winton Capital as a VP within their UK/US institutional team. Sarah holds a BA in Politics from The University of Nottingham.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Matt Hammond
Director of Foresight Group
Matt Hammond joined Foresight Group in 2015 and currently works as a Director in the London office. He has over 20 years of experience. Matt is responsible for new infrastructure investment opportunities and enhancing investor returns by optimising financing structures within Foresight’s renewable energy infrastructure portfolio. Prior to joining Foresight Matt worked predominantly at Macquarie as a Director where he focused on infrastructure and renewable energy advisory, investing, and lending. He has also worked at Henderson, BT Alex Brown and the WHEB Group where he raised and invested two renewable energy funds investing across Europe. Matt holds a degree in Engineering (Industrial Automation) from the University of Sydney, an MA in Political Economy from London School of Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Australian Securities Institute.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Yanti Falangola
Director – Head of Institutional Capital Southern Europe of Foresight Group
Yanti joined the Institutional Capital Team at Foresight in April 2016 from Cheyne Capital Management, one of Europe’s leading alternative investment fund managers. While at Cheyne, Yanti was responsible for the business development in Southern Europe and the Far East. Prior to this, he has been a fund analyst in two London based fund of hedge funds. Yanti holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Lynn University and a Master’s degree in International Business from Florida Atlantic University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Beth Watkins
Director of Foresight Group
Beth Watkins joined Foresight Group in 2015 and currently works as a Director in the London office. She has over 14 years of experience in project finance, project development and law. Beth is responsible for leading the origination, execution and monitoring of Foresight’s investments in the bioenergy and waste infrastructure sectors. Prior to joining Foresight Beth worked at Balfour Beatty Investments on the development of projects to finance, build and operate new straw fired and wood fired biomass renewable energy plants and a wide range of PFI and PPP projects. Beth is a solicitor, having trained and qualified with Pinsent Masons, and holds a Law degree from Bristol University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Charles Sheldon
Director of Foresight Group
Charles joined Foresight in 2013 after four years at management consultancy Oliver Wyman, where he specialised in Financial Services, running projects for Investment and Retail banking and Private Equity clients. Prior to that he worked at Monitor Group. Charles is a PE graduate from the University of Oxford.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Stephen Thayer
Director of Foresight Group
Stephen Thayer joined Foresight Group in 2012 and currently works as a Director and the Head of Finance in the London office. He has over 13 years of experience. Stephen is responsible for overall financial reporting and control across the group, both on the corporate and fund sides of the business. Prior to joining Foresight Stephen worked at Marks & Spencer as a Senior Finance Manager where he focused on the international subsidiaries and franchise partners plus the general merchandise supply chain and logistics. He has also worked as an Audit Executive at EY, working in their Consumer Products audit division, focusing on a number of large listed and privately owned businesses. Stephen holds an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University and is a Chartered Accountant (ICAS).
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Richard Kelly
Director & Head of New Product Development of Foresight Group
Richard Kelly joined Foresight Group in 2014 and currently works as a Director in the London office. He has over 11 years of experience. Richard is responsible for the development and launch of innovative investment products and new business divisions. Prior to joining Foresight Richard worked at Accenture as a Strategy Manager where he focused on merger and acquisition strategy across a variety of industries. He has also worked as an Intern at Oxford Capital Partners, focusing on investment business plan screening and portfolio company performance improvement. Richard holds a BA in Business & Management from Exeter University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Carlos Rey Micolau
Director of Foresight Group
Carlos joined Foresight in December 2011. Prior to that, he covered several roles at Renewables Energy Source “RES” project developer and technical consultant in the international Renewable Energy sector with a particular focus on the Spanish and Italian markets. Based in Foresight’s UK HQ, Carlos is responsible for the origination, arrangement and execution of infrastructure investments in Southern Europe, primarily in the renewable energy sector and has led Foresight’s investments in subsidy-free solar assets in the Iberian peninsula. Carlos graduated in Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management Engineering from UPC Barcelona and is fluent in Spanish, Catalan, Italian and English.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Tom Moore
Director of Foresight Group
Tom Moore joined Foresight Group in 2014 and currently works as a Director in the London office. He has over 10 years of experience. Tom is responsible for the asset management of the global renewable energy infrastructure assets. Prior to joining Foresight Tom worked at Jubilee Financial Products as a Financial Controller where he was responsible for internal finance, operations and compliance. There he also performed advisory work for M&A transactions and corporate restructurings. Tom is a Chartered Accountant and holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of York.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Simon Alberga
Founder & Board of Directors of Young Associates
Simon Alberga is a director of Young Associates, an independent private equity specialist in technology services. Simon graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with a BA degree in economics before working in corporate finance at Baring Brothers in New York. Subsequently, Simon was a banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development before co-founding Young Associates in 1996 with Lord Young of Graffham and Yoav Kurtzbard. Companies successfully backed by Young Associates include Wi-Fi operator Spectrum Interactive, telecom service provider Eurotel, telecom service provider Neos Networks, digital imaging software provider Pixology and LEP technology developer Cambridge Display Technology.
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About Young Associates: Young & Associates, Inc. has been in business installing Sewer, Storm Drain, and Water Systems with great success and integrity.
Sanjay Mistri
Vendor & Alliances Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Chris O’Brien
Products and Services Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Des Hudson
Client Success & Delivery Director of Content+Cloud
Des’ depth of technical and commercial experience gives him a complete understanding of our clients’ needs, from set up to support. He oversees systems, clients and operations in delivering the highest level of strategic managed services.
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Alastair Davidson
Director of Wireless Infrastructure Group
Alastair has spent over 20 years in the communications industry working in the mobile, public safety and fibre sectors. In his last role Alastair led the mobile operator business at Arqiva, helping customers to roll out their 3G and 4G networks.
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About : Wireless Infrastructure Group is an independent infrastructure company.
David Cumberworth
Managing Director International of Virtual Instruments
David Cumberworth is Managing Director at Virtana, responsible for the International business. Prior to joining VI, David was Vice President WW Sales for HiveIO following their acquisition of Atlantis Computing where he was WW VP Field Operations. David was responsible for sales, marketing and technical services teams and grew the business, channels and go to market strategy. In his previous role at Citrix Systems, David was responsible for managing the Enterprise Sales team which ran both Global accounts and large FTSE 100 accounts in the UK. David was responsible for closing deals with global accounts including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Before joining Citrix, David ran the Server Based Computing Business Unit for Computacenter in the UK, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services in Europe with 10,000 employees and £2.5 billion in revenue.
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About Virtual Instruments: Virtual Instruments offers IT infrastructure performance management solutions for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
Michelle Senecal de Fonseca
Non Executive Director of FDM Group
Michelle Senecal de Fonseca has developed a career of more than 25 years in international telecommunications and technology by managing large-scale corporations and small entrepreneurial start-ups owned by both the public markets and private equity. Currently, Ms Senecal de Fonseca is a non-executive Director of the FDM Group, a FTSE listed IT services company. Until the beginning of 2016, she was the Director of Cloud & Hosting Services, a global line of business for Vodafone Group Enterprise. With operational experience in more than 50 countries on all continents, she has primarily worked with Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Fidelity Data Networks, NextiraOne, Worldport, Global One, Sprint International and US West International. Ms Senecal de Fonseca’s executive positions have ranged from Managing Director and CFO to head of Sales and Marketing, Corporate Development, Strategic Planning, and Corporate Communications. From 2007-2011, Ms Senecal de Fonseca worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where she managed the Telecom, Media and Technology banking team and its associated €3 billion investment portfolio within the international financial institution. Ms Senecal de Fonseca holds a dual degree in Business and Political Science from the University of Kansas and Masters in Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona where she also serves on the school’s Global Council. She has served on the boards of a variety of American, European and CIS tech companies as well as US educational institutions and UK non-profits. She has dual British/American citizenship, was named as one of the 100 Women to Watch of 2016 by Cranfield University School of Management as part of their annual Female FTSE Board Report and acknowledged as one of the telecom industry’s most influential leaders by Global Telecom Business Magazine per their selection of the Global Telecom’s Power 100.
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About FDM Group: FDM Group is a professional services provider with a focus on IT and business recruitment for graduates and veterans.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Keith Ali
Managing Director of Creative ITC
Managing director and co-owner of Creative – a $25 million global business with 11 offices across five continents – Keith is responsible for running daily operations. He also designs and executes the group’s strategic plan, enabling clients to digitally transform for continued growth and profitability. As well driving international expansion, Keith has brought synergistic ventures on stream. Today, the business draws on the technical skills of Creative ITC, the innovation and experimentation of Creative Customer Experience and the IoT aggregation know-how of Creative Everything Connected. Previously, Keith was head of technical strategy at Cisco, responsible for anticipating market transitions and building value propositions to seize emerging business opportunities. As part of that role, he was a member of the technical leadership team, driving growth of £1.5 billion in annual revenue. Prior to Cisco, Keith spent eight years overseas running IT departments throughout APAC and the US. As global head of infrastructure for Arup, he consulted for public and private sector clients.
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About Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Menno Kremer
Investment Director of Zegona
Menno was an Executive Director in the Telecommunications, Media and Technology (“TMT”) Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs, and has more than 12 years of experience in investment banking. During this period, he worked on a broad range of M&A transactions and debt and equity financings for leading European TMT companies. Menno received a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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About Zegona: Zegona has been established to execute a ‘Buy-Fix-Sell’ strategy in the European TMT sector.
Chei Amlani
Director, Digital Product and Audience Development of Sky Italia
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About Sky Italia: Sky Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 31 July 2003.
Mark Allen
Director of Teebase UK ltd
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About Teebase UK ltd: Teebase designs and sells cyber security devices and services
Mark Allen
Director of Teebase UK ltd
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About Teebase UK ltd: Teebase designs and sells cyber security devices and services
Richard May
Director of Legrand
Richard May is the Data Centre Power SME and Country Manager for Raritan, a brand of Legrand. With over 20 years’ data centre experience, specialising in white space monitoring, metering and control, Richard works to support Raritan customers and partners; helping to maximise the efficiency of their existing data centres, and developing strategies for their new facilities.
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About Legrand: Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures.
Nick Sutcliffe
Director of BECG (Built Environment Communications Group)
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About BECG (Built Environment Communications Group), HardHat: BECG (Built Environment Communications Group) is a specialist communications consultancy.
Mark Hutchinson
Managing Director UK of Xantaro
Mark Hutchinson is responsible for Xantaro‘s UK business. He has been in the IT industry for 25 years and began his career in sales with EMC before moving on to senior sales roles and senior management roles in the software industry with Computer Associates, Groupe Bull and IBM, all of which focused on Enterprise Management solutions. Prior to joining Xantaro he was the Managing Director of Telindus Belgacom ICT and a member of the International Executive Committee for a period of 8 years. Mark‘s focus has always been on creating and developing growth through strong customer engagement models based on integrity and transparent relationships with shared insight to the customer needs. His extensive background has enabled a broad business knowledge combined with international experience and specific exposure of working in the telecommunications sector.
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About Xantaro: Xantaro is a vendor-independent service integrator focussing on carrier-class networks & services, cloud infrastructures and orchestration.
Lam Kwok Chong
Non-Executive Director of euNetworks Group
Kwok Chong Lam is on the Board of Directors at CSE Global Ltd., euNetworks Group Ltd., Eunetworks Pte Ltd. and Life Planning Associates Pte Ltd. Mr. Lam was previously employed as a Managing Director by Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd., General Manager-Special Projects by Keppel Corp. Ltd., Chief Financial Officer by Keppel Insurance Pte Ltd, and a Managing Director by Keppel Securities Pte Ltd. He received his undergraduate degree from National University of Singapore.
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About euNetworks Group: euNetworks is a Western European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.
Jason Cogley
Managing Director of Fiera Infrastructure
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About Fiera Infrastructure: Fiera Infrastructure is an IT infrastructure company located in Toronto.
James Thomlinson
Managing Director & Partner – Engage of Bell Pottinger
James is Managing Director of Engage by Bell Pottinger, which today sits at the heart of one of the world’s leading communications agencies. During his 11 year career at Bell Pottinger he has planned and executed campaigns for a wide-range of international clients. From looking after FTSE 100 brands, tourist boards, multinational hotel companies and start-ups on integrated communications briefs, James has also delivered complex digital projects, such as influencer marketing campaigns; websites; apps; intranets; online branding collateral; corporate films; webcasts; animations and infographics.
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About Bell Pottinger: Bell Pottinger was founded in 1987 and became a partnership following a management buyout from Chime plc in 2012.
Anthony Simon
Director of Farrant Group
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About Farrant Group: Farrant Group is a global strategic communications firm that focuses on reputation and crisis management.
Lee Newman
Sales Director of LAN3
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About LAN3: LAN3 is an award winning IT network integrator.
Mark Gracey
Board of Directors of Zinwave UK
Mark is a Principal at SEP and considers information technology investments with a particular focus on software and e-commerce. Before joining SEP, Mark founded and ran the European operations of network security OEM, Sensory Networks. Mark has an engineering background and previous roles include researching high speed semiconductors with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the University of California as well as acting as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including Boeing’s space programme. Mark led SEP’s investments in social network analytics business SocialBro and cloud-based hotel management and reservation software business hetras and holds board positions with both companies.
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About : Zinwave UK is a global provider of wideband active distributed antenna systems for in-building wireless coverage.
Brett Pytel
UK Director of Sales of Park Place Technologies
Brett is the DUK Director of Sales for the EMEA Region at Park Place Technologies. He is responsible for the overall EMEA sales strategy at Park Place Technologies with a specific focus on end user sales. Beyond sales strategy, Brett also works with all of our team functions in the EMEA region to ensure that a fully integrated, seamless, corporate go-to-market strategy is in place when entering new geographical territories within EMEA.
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About Park Place Technologies, Park Place Technologies: Park Place Technologies is an IT company that provided organizations around the globe with post-warranty maintenance and support solutions.
Francesco Cavallone
Founder and Director of In Other Words
Founder and Director of In Other Words.
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About In Other Words: In Other Words is the translation agency guaranteeing high quality and accurate translation services in more than 150 combinations.
Eltjo Hofstee
Managing Director Leaseweb UK of Leaseweb
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About Leaseweb: Leaseweb is a cloud hosting provider offering advanced infrastructure solutions for a global market.
Eltjo Hofstee
Managing Director Leaseweb UK of Leaseweb
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About Leaseweb: Leaseweb is a cloud hosting provider offering advanced infrastructure solutions for a global market.
