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2020
General Partner
2020
Vektor Partners is a VC firm investing in the mobility revolution. We focus on early-stage investments in the mobility technology sector, a multi-trillion revenue growth market over the next decades. We mainly invest in software, AI /machine learning, and data driven business models in attractive markets with significant growth potential that disrupt how people and goods move from A to B. We look for companies that will be the leaders in the transition to a more climate-friendly, efficient, and safer future.
2020
Non Executive Director
2020
IGEN BIOLAB is a biotech company that focuses on microbiome modulators that impact infection, immunity, and metabolic disease. The company is currently conducting five clinical trials and additional discovery efforts. Recent scientific discoveries are forcing the industry to rethink how changes in the microbiome influence human health, and IGEN BIOLAB is amongst the first companies to elucidate microbiome discoveries.
2020
Member of The Board of Advisors
2020
Eco combines reusable bottles and filtered water fountains to provide a high quality alternative to bottled water in a sustainable way, changing consumer habits to save hundreds of tons of single use plastic that would otherwise end in our oceans.
2008
Partner & Co-Founder
2008
QW Capital LLP provides tailor made investment advisory services and research. The partners have a long standing experience in the banking and asset management industry, with years of direct exposure to financial markets as investors and developers of quantitative models to detect and forecast market dynamics, with a particular focus on volatility and dispersion.
2020 - 2022
Member of the Advisory Group, RememberMe Memorial
2020 - 2022
Small group assisting St Paul's Cathedral in raising funds to build a faith-neutral memorial in the Cathedral to remember those deceased as a result of the COVID pandemic, providing a space of solace and support to their families and friends. The memorial, inaugurated in 2022, was endorsed by the Prime Minister and the Prince of Wales, and funded by corporates, HNWI, and a nationwide fundraising campaign amongst the general public in partnership with the Daily Mail.
2015 - 2022
Member of the Advisory Board, International Road Federation (FIA) High Level Panel for Road Safety
2015 - 2022
The FIA High Level Panel for Road Safety is led by FIA’s Chairman and UN Secretary’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt, and was launched in 2015 under the auspices of the then UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon. The Board of Advisors provides advice on strategy, finance, investment, marketing and communication opportunities for the group.
Member of the FIA’s Disability and Accessibility Commission
2018 - 2019
The purpose of the DAC is to break down barriers that obstruct full and effective participation of motorsport drivers and road users in society and mobility systems.
2013 - 2019
CEO
2015 - 2019
Walkabout’s mission is to restore dignity, freedom and independence by providing wheelchairs and rehabilitation in the developing world and funding research to find a cure for paralysis. Designed and successfully implement a strategy to transition Walkabout from start up to a consolidated organisation capable of attracting, on a recurring basis, corporate, institutional and private funding. Key achievements included recruiting and training from scratch the organisation’s entire team, restructuring the board, streamlining operations, establishing permanent operational centres in Kenya and in India, launching a new website and social media strategy, directly overseeing over $4m of fundraising from an expanded donor base, and being directly responsible for distributing over 8,000 of the 14,000 wheelchairs distributed by Walkabout to date (at the time), whilst granting ca.$1m towards ground-breaking research into spinal cord injuries.
Member of the Board of Trustees
2013 - 2015
Provided strategic advice. Assisted in the execution of Walkabout’s Inaugural Gala in 2015 with President Clinton as keynote speaker, which raised in excess of US$2mn.
2001 - 2003
Director, European Equity Sales
2001 - 2003
Successfully boosted CS’s ranking with a number of key investors. Tasks included daily advice on asset allocation and portfolio strategies, organising corporate and analyst presentations, advising on IPOs, and having an overall view on other products to identify synergies and ensure all client needs were met.
1999 - 2001
Director, European Equity Sales
1999 - 2001
Consistently ranked one of the top three counterparts with every client account covered doubling team’s net revenue in first nine months.
1997 - 1999
Director, Portuguese Equity Sales
1997 - 1999
Responsible for setting up and running the bank's the equity sales business into final clients in Spain, Italy, the UK and the Middle East. Contributed to increasing our market share from 20% to 25% with a much larger increase in revenues, as we captured a significant share of a higher margin business.