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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Education
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Work Experience
2022
Chief Portfolio Officer
2022
Director, Venture Capital Trust
2021
Board director of LSE-listed Molten Ventures VCT Plc (Venture Capital Trust)
2021
Advisory Board Member
2021
Partner, Venture Capital
2010
General Partner (GP) / Managing Partner / Senior Partner roles in various primary and secondary VC funds, EIS and VCT funds within Draper Esprit and related entities.
2018
Investor Director
2018
Apperio is a software company providing legal spend management software. Client organisations achieve full, unified, real-time visibility for all their law firms' billed and unbilled work, 10-20% savings in external expenditure and streamlined administration.
2020 - 2023
Senior Partner, Venture Capital
2020 - 2023
Appointed as Senior Partner following the acquisition of Encore Ventures LLP by Draper Esprit Plc. Key sector interests: - Enterprise software; B2B SaaS; Enterprise SaaS - Data centric business (exit to Oracle from my own start up) inc. data sharing, data privacy, data exchange and collaboration; data modelling and semantics, data governance, data quality, ++
2014 - 2022
Investor Director
2014 - 2022
Acquired by NASDAQ-listed NVIDIA. Bright Computing is a software company providing the de facto worldwide standard commercial cluster management technology for supercomputing / high performance computing (HPC), machine learning / artificial intelligence (AI), and analytics applications across any core-to-edge-to-cloud architecture.
2016 - 2021
Investor Director
2016 - 2021
Exited in a majority investment by BD Capital. SportPursuit is a highly successful membership-based eCommerce business providing 30-70% discounted deals on sporting, outdoor and lifestyle equipment from thousands of leading brands.
2015 - 2020
Managing Partner, Venture Capital
2015 - 2020
Co-founded and built the DFJ / Draper Esprit EIS funds which are managed by Encore Ventures LLP (now a 100% owned subsidiary undertaking of Draper Esprit Plc).
2011 - 2016
Investor Director
2011 - 2016
Displaydata is the leading provider of fully graphic Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs). Customers are some of the world's largest retail brands, using Displaydata's technology to deliver enhanced revenue and margins through accurate, instantaneous pricing / promotions delivered seamlessly to the shelf edge.