Experience

Built Ventures • COO • Evaluating investment proposals from portfolio companies, structuring investment deals and legal documentation to enable investment from the fund. Managed a team that provides company secretarial services and finance services to portfolio companies, ensuring timely advanced assurance and compliance statements for EIS/SEIS investments.

The Nova Group • COO • Spearheaded a paradigm shift from document-centric to data-first data model, allowing for better operational efficiencies, document accuracy and enabling insightful data querying.

TruFin PLC • COO • Spun out from Arrowgrass, and listed on AIM. TruFin held a portfolio of startup companies in the FinTech space. Conducted due diligence on potential new investments. Coordinated additional transactions culminating in listing a portfolio company on AIM.

Arrowgrass Capital Partners • Central Management • Led the setup and successful launch of two Alternative Investment Funds, with starting AUM of circa $150m, Created successful business plan to spin out alternative finance investment arm

Bennelong Asset Management • Quantitative Analyst • Responsible for the design and build of key operations systems within the organisation. Delivering operational efficiencies through automation.

Education

The University of Nottingham, BEng (Hons.) Chemical Engineering (1995)

Other Team Members

Spencer Lynch

Associate Partner - Pensions Sector

Joanne Carter

Head of Accountancy

Andy Speakman

Head of Technology

Andy Davidson

Head of Consultancy