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Adam Shepherd
Adam Shepherd is Investment Partner and COO at European growth equity investor TempoCap, which specialises in direct secondaries in technology companies. Adam leads the firm's investment efforts in the UK. He has been closely involved with TempoCap’s investments in Depop (sold to Etsy), Talentsoft (sold to Cegid), Currencycloud (sold to Visa), Onfido (sold to Entrust), Tessian (sold to Proofpoint) and Azimo (sold to Papaya Global) and represents TempoCap interests at several other portfolio companies.
Prior to TempoCap, Adam was an investor at early-stage B2B software firm Notion Capital, and before that helped Currencycloud to raise a Series C financing round. Adam started his career at BP, negotiating financing and structuring M&A transactions, then working for several years as a global macro trader in financial markets. Outside of work, Adam enjoys spending time with his young family.
Alex Mathers
Alex Mathers is a Partner in the Value Acceleration team, with a particular focus on Digital, helping our portfolio businesses and investment teams across technology, product development, digital marketing, and data analytics / data science. He also co-ordinates the work of our broader value acceleration team ensuring we bring our full capabilities to the support of our portfolio companies. Since joining Inflexion in 2018 he has worked with a wide variety of Inflexion investments including Alcumus, CMSPI, Lintbells, Marley, Medik8, Medivet, Scott Dunn and Rosemont.
Alex started his career at Accenture, working in a variety of technical architecture and ‘hands-on’ technology roles before working in digital transformation in the music industry. More recently he was an Associate Partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants in London, focused on technology, digital media and ecommerce.
Alex Shadbolt
Alex Shadbolt is an Investment Manager and leads Future Planet Capital’s impact efforts. With a background in research, most recently with the University of Cambridge’s Keynes Fund, exploring instances of market failure, mispricing and incentive systems within VC, Alex is driving Future Planet Capital’s formalisation of impact for investment decisions, internal operations and portfolio management.
Previously, Alex spent time at the Open Data Institute, creating and embedding the groups Impact Framework, successfully bidding for key government contracts and co-authoring the company’s five-year strategy.
He looks to bring this deep impact knowledge to investments, on both the Blue Ocean Fund and Global Growth Fund, as part of the Origination Team. Additionally, Alex heads up ESG at Future Planet, as well as co-authoring Future Planet Capital’s impact reports, with Advisory Board Member, Lord Wei of Shoreditch. Alex holds a first-class degree from Exeter in Liberal Arts, majoring in Economics.
Amelia Armour
Amelia Armour joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2009 and is a Partner in the Early Stage Fund. Her current investment focus is on AI, Photonics, and Novel Materials.
She is a Director on several boards including Xampla, who have developed novel plant-based materials to replace single-use plastics; iPronics who are building lossless optical switches for AI networking at the speed of light ; Riverlane a developer of the operating system for error corrected quantum computers; sprout.ai a provider of fast and accurate insurance claims automation and SLAMcore, a spin-out from Imperial College, developing spatial intelligence for autonomous robotics and drones.
Amo Anim-Addo
Amo Anim-Addo's role primarily involves building relationships with private equity firms and other capital providers (including institutional funds, family offices and sovereign wealth funds across the UK, Europe, and the US), and ensuring that GT is well positioned to provide our multi product client offering.
Having worked across M&A and private equity for over 25 years, Amohas significant experience advising on acquisitions, disposals, management incentive plans, strategic options and valuations, supporting funds and management teams across the private equity lifecycle.
Amy Abbott
Amy Abbott is the BVCA's Director of Industry Development. Prior to joining the BVCA in 2012, she was Head of Events & Awards at the Royal Academy of Engineering where she led a small team of event managers to deliver a highly regarded programme of events for the engineering fellowship comprising eminent chartered engineers, business leaders and Royal patrons.
During her nine years at the Academy Amy was secretary to several awards committees including the prestigious MacRobert Award; involving events at Buckingham Palace. She also played a fundamental part in the launch of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering where she was responsible for the launch event involving the former three party leaders. She has a BA Hons in Business and Marketing from Oxford Brookes University.
Andrew Clayton
Andrew Clayton is National Head of Financial Sponsors at Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking, where he is responsible for leading a team across the UK working with ambitious management teams and Private Equity investors, providing leveraged debt financing solutions to mid-market businesses. Transactions supported include management buy-outs, acquisitions, shareholder restructurings and public to private opportunities.
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience working with and supporting mid-market businesses. Before joining Santander, he was Regional Head of Structured Finance at NatWest where he led many transactions covering a wider range of sectors. Andrew has also worked in Corporate Finance and Debt Advisory as part of an independent London based boutique, and before that co-founded the Mezzanine Finance team within NatWest’s Structured Finance business.
He has a degree from Durham University, and is married with two daughters In his spare time enjoys golf, clay shooting and watching most sports, including supporting Harlequins rugby club.
Andrew Noble
Andrew Noble is a member of Par Equity’s Investment Committee and sponsor partner to several Par portfolio companies.
In addition, Andrew leads Par’s distribution of its discretionary managed funds, takes an active role on improving Par’s operations and technology infrastructure and represents Par Equity on the Steering Committee of ESG_VC, a pan-European initiative aimed at improving the ESG credentials of VC backed companies.
Andrew is a former athlete, having competed for TeamGB in Alpine Skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School.
Andy Gregory
Andy Gregory is Chief Executive Officer of BGF and a member of the company’s Board. A founding member of BGF’s management team, Andy became CEO in 2022, having previously served as Chief Investment Officer. Over the past 15 years, Andy has played a central role in building BGF into the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, with a platform that spans every region and major sector of the economy. Andy brings over 30 years of experience in private equity.
His career has included senior roles at Livingbridge, Bridgepoint and Royal Bank Development Capital. Andy combines financial rigour with a long-standing commitment to supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and growing companies. He is a vocal advocate for diversity in business and currently sits on the Board of the Invest in Women Taskforce as well as NatWest’s Mid Market Council.
Andy is Chair of the BGF Foundation, BGF's independent charitable arm, which supports initiatives that improve the lives of young people across the UK.
Anita Rana
Anita Rana is a Principal in the Portfolio Management Group, based in the firm’s London office, where she focuses on private markets portfolio management and research efforts in EMEA.
Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Anita spent nearly 10 years at BlackRock where she specialised in multi-asset private markets portfolio management (across closed-end and evergreen), portfolio construction, research, and analytics.
Anita received a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also a CAIA charterholder.
Anita is a Principal in the Portfolio Management Group, based in the firm’s London office, where she focuses on private markets portfolio management and research efforts in EMEA.
Antoine Moyroud
Antoine Moyroud is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and sits on their European investment team since 2022. Specializing in Machine Learning and Data topics, his work on the emerging AI space has brought Lightspeed Venture Partners to partner with Mistral.ai, leading their inaugural round in 2023.
Raised in the Netherlands and proficient in 4 languages, Antoine started his career in the data ecosystem with operational roles at FlixBus and Dataiku, spanning Germany, France and the UK.
Archie Burgess
Archie Burgess is an Investment Director at Cibus Capital, a PE and VC fund c.$1.2bn AUM focused on the agrifood sector. He is dedicated towards venture/growth equity and focuses primarily on robotics and automation, precision agriculture, genetics and further downstream applications such as precision fermentation.
Prior to Cibus Capital, Archie was in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London where he worked as part of the Industrials Group. Archie holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
Bashak-Julianna Demir
Bashak-Julianna Demir joined ICG in 2022 from Campbell Lutyens where she was a Managing Director in the Private Capital Advisory group.
Prior to this, Bashak spent over 10 years in investment banking at Credit Suisse in M&A and capital markets, as well as the corporate practice at Baker & McKenzie. Bashak has a Bachelor of Commerce/ Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney.
Ben Barker
Ben Barker is responsible for overseeing BGF's portfolio across the UK & Ireland. He is a member of the Executive Team and sits on BGF's Investment Committee. Ben has more than 25 years of investing experience, having started his career at HSBC and subsequently holding senior roles at Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Caird Capital. Ben has sat on numerous boards over the course of his career, in a wide range of sectors, and has also been involved in many exits.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson was appointed CEO of Molten Ventures in October 2024, having joined the Group as CFO in 2016 and the Board in June 2019.
As CFO, he joined the Investment Committee and led on strategic projects across the business. Ben successfully built Molten’s balance sheet through equity and debt financing, broadening the shareholder register, and led Molten's transition to the Main Market. His efforts were pivotal to the Company's scale and resilience during a period of extensive growth and transformation, including multiple secondary portfolio investments.
Before joining Molten, Ben served as CFO for five years at AIM-listed President Energy PLC. Earlier in his career, he worked in M&A investment banking at ABN Amro/RBS, gaining significant cross-border transaction and corporate financing experience.
Ben is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with a BSc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He also serves as a member of Molten's Sustainability Committee.
Beth Rigby
Beth Rigby is Sky News’ Political Editor, and is co-host the Sky's political podcast Electoral Dysfunction. Prior to joining the broadcaster, she served for over a decade at the Financial Times, latterly as chief political correspondent and deputy political editor. She also fronts her own interview show on Sky, talking to people at the coal face of change about their views on what is going on in Britain and around the world. After studying social and political science followed by Latin American studies, Beth joined the FT as a trainee.
She specialised in coverage of retail, consumer industries and hedge funds before moving to the political brief. After a brief spell as The Times’ media editor, she joined Sky to lead their political coverage. Taking to the air in the midst of Brexit negotiations, Beth has been witness to some of the most unpredictable and unexpected events in Westminster history.
Known for her down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach to reporting political events she offers insights into the key personalities, plots and likely outcomes. She also reveals some of what goes on in the Westminster bars and tearooms, as well as tales from behind the scenes of political broadcasting.
Blair Jacobson
Blair Jacobson is a Partner and Co-President of European Credit in the Ares Credit Group and serves on the Ares Executive Management Committee and the Ares Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. He also serves on the boards of Ares Management Limited and Ares Management UK Limited.
Additionally, Mr. Jacobson serves on the Ares Credit Group's European Direct Lending and European Liquid Credit Investment Committees, the Ares Secondaries Group's Credit Investment Committee and the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2012, Mr. Jacobson was a Partner at The StepStone Group, where he focused on building and running European operations, including oversight of private debt and equity investments.
Previously, Mr. Jacobson was a Partner at Citigroup Private Equity and Mezzanine Partners in London and New York. In addition, he has held a variety of roles in investment banking and mergers and acquisitions in a broad range of industries, including at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Jacobson holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College in Political Economy and an M.B.A., with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Finance.
Brenlen Jinkens
Brenlen Jinkens is the Head of LP Advisory, Europe at PJT’s Private Capital Solutions team in London. Prior to joining PJT Park Hill, Mr. Jinkens was a Senior Advisor and the global co-head of Jefferies’ Private Capital Advisory group, where he was also based in London.
Prior to this, Mr. Jinkens was the Head of European Capital Advisory at Greenhill, and a former Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of Cogent Partners, and Managing Partner of Cogent Partners Europe.
Mr. Jinkens graduated with an MBA from Stanford University, and a Bachelor in International Relations from Princeton University.
Bruno Bertrand-Delfau
Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is co-head of the Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Bruno is a pioneer of the secondaries industry and has more than 20 years’ experience in this space, having represented some of the largest secondary buyers on many of the landmark deals in the market, in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.
Bruno has extensive experience in all matters connected to secondaries, including NAV financings and primary investments.
Bruno and Proskauer’s secondaries team are ranked Band 1 in Chambers UK and Bruno is recognized as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the Legal 500 UK guide.
Callum Anderson MP
Callum Anderson MP was elected as the MP for Buckingham and Bletchley at the 2024 General Election. He defeated Iain Stewart, the Conservative incumbent, and became the first Labour MP in the constituency for over 50 years.
An active Labour Party member for over 15 years, Callum was inspired by the legacy of previous Labour Governments, and their commitment to lifting millions of children out of poverty. With his mother having raised him alone in a council flat in the nearby town of Dunstable, Callum experienced first-hand the opportunities a Labour Government provides, and was the first in his family to go to university.
After completing an Economics with German degree at the University of Birmingham, Callum worked in a range of public policy roles in the financial services industry and for several think-tanks. Immediately before taking up his role as a Member of Parliament, he worked for the London Stock Exchange Group. Callum also has a strong history of volunteering, and has served as a local Councillor, a School Governor, and a Race Equality Commissioner.
Shortly after arriving at the House of Commons, Callum was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). As a PPS, he plans to use his knowledge and expertise from his previous career to support British science and technology companies to innovate and grow.
Alongside being a dedicated constituency MP, Callum’s interests lie in financial markets, financial inclusion, championing the UK’s tech ecosystem and increasing social mobility.
Catherine Haumesser Balthasar
Catherine Haumesser Balthasar is a founding team member at Armen, where she heads the London office and leads the firm’s investment activity across Northern Europe. Since Armen’s inception, she has spearheaded several mid-market European GP stake transactions.
Prior to joining Armen, Catherine was a Partner at SVG Advisers, where she executed numerous investments on a global basis across four platforms, representing over €3.5bn in assets under management. She was responsible for the firm’s European investment strategy and operations, building an extensive network of GPs across the region.
Catherine holds a MA in Management from HEC, Paris, and is a CFA charterholder.
Cheryl Potter
Cheryl Potter is a Non-Executive Director at Marks & Spencer plc and at Best Secret. She currently serves on the LPAC at Redrice and the board of Level 20 having stepped down as Chair in January 2024. Level 20 is the not for profit organisation focussed on getting more women into senior roles in the private equity industry.
She was a BVCA Council member from2017 to 2022, Chairing the Association for the 2019/20 year. Cheryl spent much of her career at Permira. She joined Permira in 1999, becoming a partner in 2005 and retiring from the partnership at the end of 2019. During her time at Permira she lead the Global Consumer Team and the London office. She also served on the firm’s Executive Committee and the Compensation and Partnership Committee.
She worked on numerous transactions including Allegro Group, Arcaplanet, Creganna, Dr. Martens, Homebase, Iglo Group (and its subsequent acquisition of Findus Italy), Maxeda, Best Secret (formerly Schustermann & Borenstein) and The Reformation. During her time at Permira Cheryl served as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of Allegro, Birthdays, Dr Martens, Gala Coral, Homebase, Iglo, Maxeda and Best Secret.
Cheryl is a Founding Patron of Women Supporting Women (part of The King’s Trust). She is a former member of Tick Tock, a fundraising committee for Great Ormond Street Hospital. Prior to joining Permira, Cheryl worked at Royal Bank Development Capital and at Arthur Andersen. She has a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Liverpool and is a Chartered Accountant.
Chloe Dagnell
Chloe Dagnell runs Isomer’s new fund manager pipeline, as well as co-managing a separate fund vehicle for a sole LP. She also as leads our research into climate & ESG. Previously, Chloe worked in consulting, helping the World Bank to set up an accelerator and running a tech for good fund with the UK government.
This included an accelerator whereby she was responsible for entrepreneur experience and leveraging investor and mentor engagement, and a programme whereby Chloe supported the management of a fund for technology-for-development start-ups.
Chloe holds a degree in International Politics from Queen’s University Belfast.
Chris Elphick
Chris Elphick is Head of Venture Capital at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA). He leads on all policy areas related to venture capital and works closely with BVCA members to promote the role the industry plays in the UK economy by supporting entrepreneurs and businesses.
Chris is a member of the Independent Advisory Board for the Government’s Digital Growth Grant (delivered by Barclays Eagle Labs) and is an adviser to the APPG for Entrepreneurship.
Claire Madden
Claire Madden is one of four co-founders of Connection Capital. 2010 was an ‘interesting’ time to start an investment business and we have come a long way since those early days. It has been great to build so many relationships with clients, advisors, management teams and fund managers and I believe our investment platform is genuinely unique in offering single asset private equity and debt deals alongside private market funds.
Claire is responsible for business development, operations, marketing and client management. She is also a member of Connection Capital’s executive board and Investment Committee.
Claire's career began at 3i having gained a degree in Banking & International Finance from Loughborough University. Back then, 3i had a large regional network and investment executives looked after sizeable portfolios as well as writing new business. It was a great place to learn and those who passed through enjoy being part of an incredibly well-connected and supportive alumni. In 2001 Claire caught the entrepreneurial bug and co-founded a private client investment business with a former 3i colleague which she exited in 2009 before co-founding Connection Capital in 2010.
Claudia Rowe
Claudia Rowe is a Principal at Balderton Capital, where she leads investments in Series B to pre-IPO companies. She is a career growth investor and previously worked in NYC at Activant Capital, Pine Brook, and Goldman Sachs.
Claudio Siniscalco
Claudio Siniscalco is the founder of Fiduciary Co-investment Partners, the world's only provider of customised co-investment solutions to institutional and UHNW investors. Prior to founding FCP, Claudio served as Global Co-Head of Co-investments for Deutsche Bank, and previously co-head of HarbourVest Partners’ London based co-investment team.
Claudio has 25 years of financial services and investing experience, of which 19 years have been spent exclusively on co-investments. He estimates he has reviewed over 4,000 co-investments, with the ~1% he chose to pursue generating over $1bn in realised proceeds to date. He has served as a board member / observer of several companies including Clearway Group Ltd, Polynt SpA, Panda Security SL, Tyntec Ltd, and Welcome Break Ltd.
Previously, Claudio spent a decade gaining traditional direct private equity and M&A experience at Audley Capital (which he co-founded), Investcorp, Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, and Salomon Brothers.
Educated in the US and UK, Claudio speaks English, Italian, German and French fluently. He holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School and a B.A. with honors in Economics from Harvard University.
Cyril Auger
Cyril Auger joined Ardian in 2007 as an Investment Manager within the Fund of Funds team in Paris, before moving to London in 2011. He joined the Co-Investment team in 2017. Prior to Ardian, he worked for BNP Paribas as a Vice-President and before that, for CACIB in their M&A department.
Dan Bowyer
Dan Bowyer, founder turned angel now VC. Investing early in applied AI. Behind the scenes industrials such as manufacturing, supply, back office with a focus on technical founders. Dad of two, husband to one, passion for anything with an engine or circuit board.
Dana Haimoff
Dana Haimoff, Managing Director, joined the Private Equity Group in 2002. Dana is a Portfolio Manager responsible for sourcing, due diligence, leading investment recommendations and monitoring private equity funds, co-investments and secondary opportunities.
Currently, Dana serves on numerous private equity fund and direct co-investment advisory committees. Prior to joining the Group, she spent six years with Merrill Lynch working with alternative asset funds and initiating, developing and servicing new and existing client accounts. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Dana worked at Prudential Securities in the Corporate Finance Group’s private equity practice and at Ernst & Young as an International Tax Consultant. She earned a BS from Skidmore College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Dana is the co-Founder of Level 20, a not-for-profit organization set up to encourage women to succeed in the private equity industry. She is a member of the British Venture Capital Association’s Limited Partner Committee. Dana is a director on the board of JPMorgan Asset Management International Ltd and JPMorgan Asset Management (UK) Ltd and is responsible for the firm’s SMCR’s EMEA Alternatives.
David Wilmot
David is a Founding Partner of Apera, responsible for developing the Apera platform and business in the United Kingdom and in the Nordic region.
David has extensive experience in deal origination and portfolio management in the European leveraged finance market, most recently having spent 16 years at Babson Capital where he was Joint Head of European Private Finance. David was instrumental in establishing Babson’s presence in the European buyout finance market, and served as either an Investment Committee member or co-Chairman for several of Babson’s private debt and CLO funds.
Prior to joining Babson, David led the UK leveraged finance team at Société Générale. David holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Banking and Finance from Loughborough University, a MBA from Cass Business School and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
Douglas Hansen-Luke
Douglas Hansen-Luke is the Executive Chairman of Future Planet Capital. After two years of research he founded the firm in 2015, following an extensive career in global finance and as an entrepreneur in Hong Kong, London and the Middle East.
He has worked in a series of senior broking, investment and asset management roles for firms including ABN AMRO and Robeco, with a focus on emerging markets and asset classes. He was also co-founder of Hong Kong’s first regulated online equity research firm.
He has sat on the Committee of the Royal British Legion Ball and the Jesus College, Oxford, Campaign Board and has made three trips to Rwanda for social action work with Project Umubano.
Dr. Ilian Iliev
Dr. Ilian Iliev founded EMV Capital in 2018. After its acquisition by NetScientific PLC (now EMV Capital PLC), he became group CEO. Previously he co-founded and was CEO of CambridgeIP Ltd, which he built into a leading IP and patent strategy and data analytics provider in the UK and internationally.
He also worked as a strategy advisor for various corporate clients. In the 1990s he co-led a family business in industrials and electric engineering in Southern Africa. He is a Board member on behalf of the Group at many portfolio companies, including , Glycotest Inc. (Chair), Sofant Technologies, PointGrab, Q-Bot, Martlet Capital, DName-iT, Vortex and Wanda Health (Chair). He is a Board member of NASDAQ-listed PDS Biotech Inc.
Ilian holds a PhD from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School with a focus on Venture Capital; Master’s in Economics from the Witwatersrand University, South Africa; and is a former Associate Fellow at Chatham House. He has authored numerous academic, policy and industry reports.
Dylan Doran Kennett
Dylan Doran Kennett is a corporate partner at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, co-leading its Venture and Growth Capital practice and Sports group. With extensive experience in venture and growth equity transactions, private equity, and cross-border M&A, Dylan has guided high-growth companies in their global expansion.
He advises both company-side and investor-side on investments, joint ventures, and collaborative transactions, focusing on technology, life sciences, media, and sports sectors. Dylan is recognized in the Legal 500 (Venture Capital) and was named a Corporate Rising Star at the 2023 LMG Life Sciences Awards.
Eimear Palmer
Eimear is a Partner, Global Head of Sustainability, with responsibility for overseeing and developing Pantheon’s established sustainability strategy and range of initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, Eimear worked for 14 years in private equity-focused ESG roles, including most recently as Managing Director and Head of Responsible Investment at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). Before that she worked at the Carlyle Group, where she implemented an enhanced ESG framework for Carlyle Europe Partners.
Eimear is recognised across the industry for engagement with key industry stakeholders and previously co-founded the UK network of Initiative Climat International, an investor-led platform focused on climate action among leading global private market organisations, of which Pantheon is a signatory.
Elliot Isaacs
Elliot Isaacs is the Founder of Medik8 Skincare – a science-led consumer brand challenging global majors in key beauty categories, channels and markets.
Medik8 started in a shed-sized lab and, always growing within its own cash flow, scaled to a team of 300 people operating out of over 100,000 sq ft of space through a full-vertical business model. In 2021, the business partnered with Inflexion Private Equity to support its next stage of growth - more than tripling sales in 4 years.
Elliot now serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Medik8 board and invests in a handful of early-stage tech start-ups. He lives in Hertfordshire with his young family.
Eric Arnould
Eric Arnould was appointed General Partner at Jolt Capital in July 2022.
During his 16 years in ECM at Natixis, Eric covered in particular tech companies, utilities and renewable energies. Appointed Managing Director (2012) then Global Head of ECM activities (2017), member of the Executive Committee of the Investment Banking division, in charge of a team of 25 people covering the full range of ECM from Origination and Equity Syndicate, up to Structuring & Execution and Corporate Broking.
Since early 2022, he had been promoted to Senior Banker, covering a portfolio of growth tech companies for all their capital and debt financing operations. At Natixis, Eric Arnould supervised 100+ market operations including 40+ IPOs.
Finlay Taylor
Finlay Taylor is an ESG & Sustainability Manager at YFM Equity Partners. YFM have been backing UK SMEs since 1982 with £3–£15M growth & buyout capital. My role focuses on identifying value creation opportunities for our portfolio through the lens of ESG, including materiality assessments and road-mapping. Prior ESG experience held at Holtara (PE sustainability consultancy) and Furthr (a carbon accountancy and employee engagement start up).
Francesca Ficai
Francesca Ficai leads the European Private Credit coverage for LCD. Previous to LCD she worked at Debtwire and mergermarket, also as a Private Credit reporter. Before that she held various jobs in the political realm, such as the House of Commons and the European Commission.
She is fluent in four languages and graduated from La Sorbonne in Paris and holds an MA from University of Bath.
Frederic Court
Frederic Court is Founder and Investor at Felix Capital, a venture capital firm for the Creative Class, managing over $1.2B of venture and growth capital. Based in London, Felix operates at the intersection of technology and creativity, with an investment focus in Europe and North America. Felix Capital’s mission is to be a partner of choice for the best founders - creative innovators empowering new ways of living and working, in both the Consumer and B2B sectors.
Illustrative investments for Felix Capital include: Farfetch, an online global fashion marketplace, exited via IPO and fully realised in 2019; Moonbug, a media platform for kids entertainment including “Cocomelon” and “Blippi”; TravelPerk, a corporate travel platform leveraging AI; Mirakl, a SaaS platform for marketplaces; and Manual, a leading UK-based digital health-tech platform.
Frederic founded Felix in 2015 and has worked in the technology industry for over 20 years. Prior to Felix, he was an entrepreneur and a General Partner at Advent Venture Partners. Since 2017, Frederic has been selected for the Forbes' Midas List Europe multiple times. In 2023, Felix Capital was named “VC Firm of the Year” at the GP Bullhound All Star Awards in the UK, and became one of the first venture capital firms in Europe to become a certified B Corp.
Greg Favre
Greg Favre focuses on developing and managing Adams Street’s relationships with private wealth management firms, family offices, and platforms across Europe.
Prior to joining Adams Street Partners, he worked closely with high net worth and ultra high net worth investors at UBS Wealth Management as part of the Private Markets Distribution team, in London and Zurich. Greg is also a member of the CFA Institute.
Greg Kok
Greg Kok is a chartered accountant who began his career with Deloitte in South Africa, Greg has since garnered 24 years’ experience in the finance industry, primarily with large global firms and spanning multiple jurisdictions including the UK, Bermuda, Singapore, Vietnam and Luxembourg.
He has extensive experience in running fund management businesses in both the asset management and asset servicing sectors.
Greg held a number of senior investment management and strategic leadership positions, over a 13-year period, with a global asset manager and has a specific interest in the marketing and portfolio management aspects of alternative asset classes.
Greg is a member of the Executive Committee of the Guernsey Investment Funds Association and has previously served as a member of ALFI’s Management Company Steering Committee. Greg also serves as a Director on numerous corporate and fund boards.
Hannah Williamson
Hannah Williamson is a Senior Investment Manager at Edge VC, a specialist venture capital firm investing at the intersection of creativity and technology. Hannah leads investments into early-stage, high-growth companies across sectors including AI and productivity tools, edtech, media, and music, and currently holds several board positions across the portfolio.
Before entering the world of venture capital, Hannah worked on the operational side at leading fashion e-commerce retailer ASOS, where she gained firsthand experience in the dynamics of fast-paced, consumer-facing businesses.
Harriet Assem
Harriet Assem is BVCA’s Head of Sustainability. Her role is focussed in supporting industry/market practice and delivering on strategic projects/initiatives with policy related work on new international sustainability standards (and other emerging initiatives).
Prior to joining the BVCA she spent a number of years in environmental consultancy.
Her most recent role included leading a team which provided ESG related strategy services to cross sector clients including private equity. She also played a lead role in developing and publishing the ESG Transparency A Private Equity and Venture Capital Index.
Previous to that, her career started in environmental due diligence where she worked on several high-profile merger and acquisition deals, providing environmental due diligence advice.
Harry Thomas
Harry Thomas leads value creation across Beringea’s portfolio, accelerating growth, supporting strategy at board level, and guiding companies to exit.
Since joining in 2013, he has supported the UK portfolio and driven initiatives like the Beringea Resource Hub and Scale-Up Academy to support founders and leadership teams.
He serves on the boards of Social Value Portal, My 1st Years, MOTH Drinks, WiredScore, and Andersen EV, with successful exits including D3O, Chargemaster, Aistemos (Cipher), and Dianomi.
Harry began his career in start-ups and holds an M.A. in History from St Andrews and the CFA UK Level 4 Investment Management Certificate.
Henry Freeman
Henry Freeman is a strategic adviser to Guernsey Finance and sits on a number of commercial fund and investment company boards as well as Guernsey’s sovereign wealth and pension funds and Guernsey’s Investment & Funds Association (GIFA) Executive Committee.
During his executive career in fund management, investment banking and fintech, Henry managed institutional and private client funds, advised London-listed funds and companies on strategy, structuring, IPOs and M&A, built technology and investment businesses and advised UK government on fintech and social finance, sitting on parliamentary policy groups and Downing Street roundtables.
He is proud to have established the GIFA Schools Investment Challenge, encouraging financial literacy. Henry holds the Institute of Directors’ Diploma in Company Direction.
Howard Dawber OBE
Howard Dawber OBE is the Deputy Mayor of London for Business and Growth, having been appointed to the role in December 2023. The focus of his role is to champion London’s interests across the globe as a place to visit, expand to and invest in, and working to protect jobs and growth in the capital.
He is also focusing on supporting the thousands of small and medium-sized businesses at the heart of London’s economy.
Hugh Campbell
Hugh Campbell is a co-founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Hugh is passionate about technology innovation and entrepreneurs with many years’ experience advising and investing in Europe’s current and future Unicorns. He has worked with all the leading growth equity funds in Europe and has sold businesses to Real Networks, Disney, Accenture and Experian amongst others.
Hugh started his career at Citibank in M&A before moving on to Goldman Sachs where he worked in Equity Research. Hugh is from an entrepreneurial publishing family who sold John Murray Publishers to Hachette in 2002 and founded an e-learning business, Pastest Limited, where Hugh is Chairman.
In 2000, Hugh left Goldman Sachs and spent most of the year working and living in Beijing, China before going back to his investment banking roots by co-founding GP Bullhound. Hugh opened the Manchester office in 2013, is a Manchester Grammar School alum and graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford.
Isobel Clarke
Isobel Clarke is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Sarah Adams. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a job share partnership since early 2020.
They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Isobel has over 13 years’ experience of working on government policy, mainly at HM Treasury but also at the Ministry of Justice. She has led policy work on business rates, tax devolution and the scrutiny of tax reliefs.
James Codling
James Codling is the Managing Partner of Volution, where he directs the firm's investment strategy, focusing on companies that harness transformative technologies such as AI, machine learning and blockchain to enhance productivity in capital markets and the workplace.
Volution targets companies generating £5 -20m in revenue with the potential to reach global scale. With a deep focus on FinTech, SaaS and AI, Volution’s team of experienced investors, former founders and operators has a proven track record in building, scaling and exiting successful technology businesses.
James Jupp
James Jupp is a Partner in the Investment team, leading deals and sitting on the Investment Committee. James leads the firms Vendor Origination programme, sourcing LP portfolios from vendors across multiple asset classes.
In 2018 he moved to New York to open Hollyport’s first US-based office location and over a four year period built the US team and established Hollyport’s presence in the US market. Following his move back to London, James manages the development of the junior investment team, alongside his deal appraisal and origination work. James is a qualified ACA, having qualified in Crowe audit programme before moving into the corporate finance team.
James graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Accounting and Finance.
James Ogden
James Ogden is an executive leader and Chartered Engineer with over 20 years of experience in the water industry. He has led innovation and continuous improvement for a UK water utility on £650M capital investment programmes, and later worked at a leading consultancy, supporting the mapping and implementation of UK and international best practices for pollution reduction.
After joining StormHarvester in 2020 he helped shape the value proposition and has led business development since, resulting in long term revenue from 11/12 UK wastewater utilities and beyond.
Jamie Hayford
Jamie Hayford is a member of Pantheon’s European Investment Team where he focuses on the analysis, evaluation and completion of investment opportunities. He was previously at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management where he spent two years working within their Global Investment Strategy Team concentrating on equities.
He has a Masters in Investment Management from the University of Reading and is a CAIA Charter holder.
Janet Henry
Janet Henry was appointed as HSBC’s Global Chief Economist in August 2015 and is responsible for all HSBC’s economic forecasts and thematic economic research output globally. She was previously HSBC’s Chief European Economist. Much of her research has focused on globalisation, including the global determinants of local inflation, and the political and economic challenges of the post global financial crisis era, notably labour market disruption and the implications of income and wealth inequality within major advanced economies.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, her work has focused on the labour market implications, evolving inflation dynamics and policy challenges of the unprecedented recession and recovery.
Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi is CEO of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the interests of Limited Partners through advocacy, education, research and industry engagement.
Prior to becoming CEO, Jen served eight years as ILPA’s Managing Director of Industry Affairs. During that time, she launched ILPA’s global advocacy platform to ensure that the LP perspective was being fully considered in global regulation and policymaking. With a focus on robust LP-GP dialogue around emerging issues, Jen led the creation and adoption of best practices such as the ILPA Reporting Template, the ILPA Principles and ILPA’s guidance on subscription lines of credit and GP-led secondaries.
In 2020, Jen founded the Diversity in Action initiative, a community of practice that has grown to more than 300 LP and GP signatories with the shared goal of taking concrete action to advance DEI in the private markets.
Before joining ILPA, Jen served as Vice President of Industry and External Affairs for the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), now known as the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA), where she led the association’s research programs and industry engagement activities. Previously, Jennifer was a consultant with Boston-based Stax Inc., providing due diligence and advisory services for leading private equity and venture capital firms.
Jennifer holds a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Augustana College.
Jessica Lennard
Jessica Lennard is a member of the Senior Executive Team, an advisor to the board and has overall responsibility for Strategy, Communications and Advocacy at the CMA including working with the board to develop the CMA’s strategy, providing advice to government under the CMA’s advocacy function and leading the CMA’s external communications and relations.
Jim Weight
Jim Weight founded Weight Partners Capital (“WPC”) in December 2009 to fill a gap in the UK private equity market by bringing together the best of both operating and investing expertise to produce superior returns. The operating focus naturally brings sector focus and for WPC that is healthcare services in the UK. Jim leads the investment team and chairs the investment committee.
He also serves as chairman of Rileys, Trinity, Grosvenor, WPC Hotels and Towerview. Before launching WPC, Jim enhanced performance as corporate operator and private equity advisor at a series of large companies. Jim was CFO of HiT Entertainment backed by Apax Partners; CFO of Westminster Health Care, backed by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, and Goldman Sachs; and divisional board director at Kingfisher (Comet, B&Q, Staples, Entertainment UK, e-Kingfisher).
Jim also spent eight years with The Boston Consulting Group. Jim was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Business School where he received an MBA. He also holds a BA in Engineering from Cambridge.
Jingyu Zhuang
Jingyu Zhuang is a Senior Investment Manager at VenCap. Prior to joining VenCap, she had extensive experience with venture capital and private equity fund investments in Asia Pacific markets. Jingyu received her BA (Hons) in Economics from Wellesley College and MBA from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania in the US.
Jon Pollock
Jon Pollock is the Chief Executive and Managing Partner at Elbow Beach, an early-stage investor focused on climate technologies that improve industrial productivity, efficiency, and outcomes at scale. With 20 years of commercial leadership experience in the tech and telecoms sectors - including senior roles at BT Group, the FTSE 100 media and telecoms company JP brings a sharp focus on customer value, scalability, and economic impact to cleantech investing.
Inspired by COP26 and a belief that the sector needed a more commercially grounded approach, JP co-founded Elbow Beach to invest in technologies that improve customer outcomes while delivering meaningful climate impact. Under his leadership, the firm targets transformative innovations in advanced manufacturing, green computing, automation, electrification, and low-carbon materials.
JP believes the future of cleantech lies at the intersection of commercial viability and climate benefit. He encourages founders to focus on delivering real customer value - technologies that reduce costs, improve performance, and drive adoption at scale will define the next generation of climate solutions.
Juliette Gerstein
Juliette Gerstein leads the public affairs team at the BVCA, spearheading the BVCA’s political and parliamentary engagement and working alongside the policy and communications teams.
Juliette has spent over 10 years working in financial services public affairs, including a number of years at the FCA. Having started her career working in Parliament, she also previously supported clients with their external communications at communications agencies Portland and Lexington.
Kanishka Narayan MP
Kanishka Narayan MP is the Labour MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, after a career bridging public service, technology and finance, working in roles across Silicon Valley, the civil service and the city.
In government, Kanishka advised ministers on domestic public policy, as Senior Adviser at the Cabinet Office and as Expert Adviser to Britain’s Environment Secretary. He also advised the Labour Party frontbench as Head of Tech Policy.
In business, Kanishka advised and invested in climate and fintech start-ups across Europe and the US, and previously advised FTSE boards, sovereign finance ministries and start-up founders at Lazard.
Kanishka grew up and lives in South Wales, studied at Oxford and Stanford universities, and is passionate about social mobility and social justice. He is determined for the UK to embrace its future as a global leader in technology and innovation, harnessing growth that works for everyone: strengthening communities, restoring dignity, and lifting people up through opportunity.
Karim Palant
Karim Palant is Director of External Affairs at the BVCA, where he leads the Public Affairs, Communications and Research functions.
Karim and his colleagues tell the story of private capital through high-impact engagement with policymakers, stakeholders and the media.
Karim also oversees the BVCA’s agenda-setting research programme, which includes the Performance Measurement Survey - the largest primary research survey of its kind in the UK, and the annual Report on Investment Activity.
He has two decades of experience in tech and economic policy. From 2015, he led public policy and economic impact work at major tech firms - at LinkedIn and previously Facebook. Earlier in his career, he served as Head of Policy to the Shadow Chancellor.
Karim studied PPE at the University of Oxford, following his education at Calderstones Comprehensive School in Liverpool.
Laura McGinnis
Laura McGinnis gained over 10 years of operating experience including working for co-working space The Wing as the Director of Retail and E-Commerce. She was also Director of Product Marketing and Strategy for travel startup Away. Before joining the startup ecosystem, Laura headed up the US women’s e-commerce business at H&M, focusing on buying, inventory control and product marketing.
Laura is passionate about youth education and wealth equity having previously worked as an early consultant for The Fifteen Percent Pledge, a non-profit organisation creating sustainable ecosystems for Black-owned businesses.
She started her career as a Fulbright Scholar in Uruguay where she founded Girls Score Goals, a sports-education startup for underserved schools. Laura holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
She speaks Spanish, paints, and occasionally performs improv at underfunded comedy clubs.
Leon de Bono
Leon de Bono is the BVCA's Managing Director. Before joining the BVCA in 2010 he was the Publishing Director and a member of the team that launched Private Equity News, part of eFinancialNews, which was acquired by Dow Jones in 2007. He began working in the private equity industry with Caspian Media in 2001. He has a BA from University College London and an MA from The Courtauld Institute.
Maria Carradice
Maria Carradice joined Mayfair in 2015 to work alongside portfolio companies to identify, quantify and unlock business process improvement activities. Maria’s expertise as both a former practitioner and consultant allows her to focus on opportunities to drive incremental value in areas such as tax, ESG and finance with the aim of supporting the teams Mayfair partners with to deliver their plans faster or with less risk.
Prior to Mayfair Maria worked at LDC where she advised LDC and its portfolio companies on a wide range of M&A structuring, tax, operational and accounting issues as well as advising on fund structuring and related investor issues.
Maria is a qualified accountant, tax and treasury adviser, has a first-class honours degree in Chemistry from The University of Surrey, a PhD in Nanotechnology from Cambridge University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Marion Bernard
Marion Bernard is Chief Investment Officer at Northern Gritstone, a ground-breaking investment company funding and supporting early-stage life sciences and technology companies in the North of England, primarily backing university spin outs in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Sheffield. Its portfolio includes opportunities in some of the UK’s fastest growing sectors such as life sciences, health tech, advanced materials, clean tech, quantum computing, AI and semiconductors.
Marion began her career at Barclays, before joining 3i where she worked in the northern team and in the global life sciences team. Marion led Northstar Ventures, a regional fund manager focused on university spin outs, seed and early-stage venture deals as CEO, before joining the initial leadership team at BGF in 2011 as Regional Director (London and Southeast). Immediately before joining Northern Gritstone in Jan 2022, Marion was UK Managing Director for the US investment company, Firmament Group, focused on growth and venture deals.
Maryam Al Ali
Maryam Al Ali is the Head of Fund Investments for the Solutions Business at Mubadala Capital. Based in Abu Dhabi, she is responsible for originating and executing fund investments across North America and Europe, ensuring the portfolio is aligned with the firm’s long-term vision.
Since joining Mubadala Capital in 2014, Maryam has focused on building a diversified portfolio of fund investments and managed fund relationships across key geographies. She has led multiple investments and serves as Mubadala Capital's representative on various LP advisory boards across the portfolio. Maryam brings 12 years of experience in relevant investment strategies, with expertise in fund sourcing, due diligence and asset management. She earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University in 2013.
Matt Dickman
Matt Dickman is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. He advises on the formation, management and reorganisation of private investment funds. Mr. Dickman is also a leader in the firm’s Private Fund Transactions Group, where he regularly advises fund sponsors and investors on GP staking transactions, including internal reorganisations and internal economic and governance arrangements, as well as seed investments in emerging fund sponsors and secondary transactions.
He is recommended by The Legal 500 UK (2025) as a Leading Partner, where clients value that he “knows his craft supremely well, delivers clear advice and also practical solutions, and is highly personable at the same time.” He is also recognised by Chambers Europe (2024) and Chambers UK (2025) as “a rising star of the next generation.”
Matt Truman
Matt Truman was born in a small Suffolk town, and educated at the University of London, before being ushered into Finance by his dad. He cut his teeth at Lehman Brothers, where he ended up as Head of Retail and Consumer, and MD before its demise. It was working at JP Morgan that made it clear to Matt he was interested in the work but not the culture of the industry.
He found a like-minded partner in Paul, between them they had worked with brands from Tesco to Ocado, and gained a unique view of the entire vertical, from startup to Amazon. They joined forces to create cultural change in the investment industry, and reimagine it as something fundamentally more helpful to founders and dynamic businesses. The result is True. Matt is driven by a dynamic entrepreneurial approach, a desire to try things, to lead and drive the firm forward along with a sense of fairness, teamwork, a dose of speculation and good manners.
Matthew Sabben-Clare
Matthew Sabben-Clare is a Senior Advisor to Cinven. Previously, Matthew was Head of Cinven’s Capital Markets team and Chief Administrative Officer.
He was previously at Merrill Lynch in Leveraged Finance. Prior to this he worked in the Financing & Structured Products Division at J. Henry Schroder & Co. He graduated from Cambridge University and is AMCT-qualified.
May Sulaiman
May Sulaiman is an Investment Director in QIC’s Private Equity team in London with 10 years of investing experience as both a GP and an LP. She previously invested in UK mid-market companies at Graphite Capital and in emerging markets at BII (formerly CDC).
At QIC, she focuses on partnering with emerging and capital-constrained managers across Europe, with a strong emphasis on co-investments.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is Chief Executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
Michael and his colleagues are focused on supporting the development of the private capital industry, as it invests in thousands of businesses and supports millions of jobs across the UK. As policymakers work on the competitiveness of the UK’s investment climate, Michael is confident that private equity and venture capital will continue to create significant public value through investment in growth, innovation and people.
Over the past 30 years Michael has operated at senior levels in both politics and business. In his political career he served in the Cabinet at the time of the Coalition Government, as Secretary of State for Scotland. He was a Member of Parliament for 18 years.
After the 2015 General Election, Michael became a Senior Advisor at PwC. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm.
Michelle Lamprecht
Michelle Lamprecht is Head of Corporate Affairs at Cambridge Innovation Capital where she manages the ESG and Impact strategy, marketing strategy, and is an advisor/mentor to CIC’s portfolio companies.
She has 20 years’ experience of international leadership in strategic communications and business across a range of public and privately owned organisations.
Michelle has been a board member for Byte Night (Action for Children), a trustee for Citizen’s Advice and is currently an advisory panel member for BVCA External Affairs, a steering committee member of ESG_VC and a Non-Exec Director for Form the Future.
Mo Sondhi
Mo Sondhi is a Senior Director of Debt Finance at OakNorth, having joined in April 2016 from RBS where he’d spent 16 years. He is an expert in broad Structured and Corporate Finance having gained significant experience in a variety of roles covering main functional areas, including customer relationships, portfolio management, risk management, people management and strategy development.
Having proven his ability to deliver success in a range of challenging business situations, Mo is responsible for originating, structuring, and executing complex transactions, providing a range of short- and long-term funding solutions designed to support growing businesses.
Mo has led OakNorth’s work in fund finance since 2018, helping the bank to carve a niche in the market through providing optionality for funds seeking lower debt quantums from £3m up to £75m, but from a financier that can offer the full spectrum of products – capital call, GP lines, liquidity lines, and NAV facilities. Over the last seven years, he has pushed the bank to try new things and be an innovator in this space, including leading OakNorth’s first ever fund buy-out deal, and its first ever subscription facility, NAV and GP facilities.
Nassim Cherchali
Nassim Cherchali is the Managing Partner at AnaCap, where he has played a pivotal role in developing the firm’s next-generation platform focused on asset-light services, technology, and software within the financial ecosystem.
Under Nassim’s leadership, AnaCap has successfully executed 18 platform investments and ~100 bolt-on acquisitions, consistently delivering superior and consistent returns to investors. In the past three years, he has spearheaded fundraising efforts exceeding €700 million, and the firm is currently deploying its second next-generation fund.
Before joining AnaCap, Nassim was part of the Financial Institutions Group at Lehman Brothers in London, where he advised clients across insurance, banking, and consumer finance sectors. He graduated from ESCP Europe.
Recognised for his deep sector expertise, entrepreneurial mindset, and collaborative approach, Nassim is a trusted partner to founders and management teams. His leadership continues to shape AnaCap’s success and establishes him as a respected voice in the private equity community. Nassim has also been recognised as one of the 50 most influential persons in European private equity.
Natasha Christie-Miller
Natasha Christie-Miller is a media executive specialising in information, subscriptions and events companies. With previous roles as CEO of Emap and CEO of Ascential Intelligence, she now works with a number of organisations including The Economist and TED as a senior advisor, she is Chairwoman of Sifted, NED for Proven Growth and Income VCT and an advisor to early stage companies Moonshot and Walking On Earth.
Nicolas Moura
Nicolas Moura is an EMEA private capital research analyst at PitchBook, where he covers the PE and VC markets in Europe. He contributes to quarterly core reports as well as analyst notes on various topics. Prior to PitchBook, Moura worked as an equity research analyst first at Berenberg and then at Mirabaud, transitioning from being a sector analyst into a generalist.
Moura received a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from University College of London (UCL) and a master’s degree in finance from Imperial College Business School. He is based in PitchBook’s London office.
Oliver Baker
Oliver Baker is part of the European Private Credit team based in London and is responsible for originating and executing Direct Lending investments across the UK and Benelux markets. He has been with Partners Group since 2014 and prior to that worked within the leveraged finance divisions of GE Capital and Lloyds Banking Group.
Patricia Volhard
Patricia Volhard is head of the firm’s European Funds Regulatory practice. She is based in the Paris and Frankfurt offices, and also spends substantial time in the London office.
She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, and Private Equity and Funds/Investment Management Groups. She is also a member of the firm’s core group of ESG partners. Her practice focuses on advising private funds and fund managers on structuring and setting up funds for a European investor base, as well as advising on European financial regulatory aspects for fund managers and corporates, including on SFDR, CSRD, CSDDD and other ESG-related regulation.
Ms.Volhard is one of Europe’s leading private funds regulatory lawyers and has played a prominent role in the ongoing development of the area. She is Chair of Invest Europe’s Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group, a member of its SFDR working group, and former Chair of its Tax, Legal & Regulatory Committee.
She is also a member of the Investment Management Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). In Germany, she is a member of the Board of the BVK, and heads its Legal Committee. In the UK, she is a member of the regulatory committee of the BVCA.
Paul Lamacraft
Paul Lamacraft covers Schroders Capital Private Equity investment activities in Europe and is Head of Sustainability & Impact. Paul has a particular focus on opportunities in the UK and Europe and has passion for Sustainability & Impact. He has recently launched and now manages the Schroders Capital Circular Economy Private Plus, Semi-Liquid Fund, a global private equity strategy investing into positive impact investments with attractive return expectations and also manages the private equity component of several other private markets impact portfolios. He is also very keen to continue the work to expand the private equity asset class to a wider range of investors.
Before joining Schroders in 2020, Paul worked for 8 years in private equity and public markets investing with an emphasis on direct venture and growth equity transactions. Prior to this Paul spent over 12 years advising companies in their private equity fundraising and M&A activities, including 5 years at Deutsche Bank. Paul started his career at EY where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Paul is a qualified ACA and holds a BSc in Economics & Accounting from the University of Bristol, UK.
Phil Westcott
Phil Westcott is CEO and founder of Filament Syfter. He is a former Director at IBM, and a specialist in applied Artificial Intelligence. Phil previously ran the IBM Watson platform in Europe, led their Smarter Cities business in Southeast Asia and launched IBM’s global IoT practice.
He is a specialist in AI use cases, business models and enterprise transformation. He is a regular speaker on the convergence of tech and entrepreneurship. Phil is a Chartered Engineer and holds an MBA from IESE and Columbia business schools.
Philip Edmans
Philip Edmans is a Partner at Inflexion and is a member of its Investment Committee. Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm with €16bn AUM. Philip joined in 2010 and spent his first decade at Inflexion investing in high growth businesses across all sectors. He now leads the firm’s capital markets team with responsibility for debt financing strategy and lender relationships.
Piers Johansen
Piers Johansen leads both adviser coverage and strategy & sales enablement for Aon's M&A business in EMEA, combining a diverse professional background in law, investment banking and insurance over 30 years.
His responsibilities include managing relationships with law firms, investment banks and other stakeholders as part of a structured approach focused on bringing Aon’s diversified capabilities to help create client value and drive deal-related efficiency. Working in close collaboration with business, geography and other leaders in Aon’s M&A business, Piers helps develop sales strategy focused on client engagement, deal origination and execution.
At Aon, Piers has applied his prior deal experience to help drive innovation in M&A risk-transfer products, including ‘cash confirmation’ and warranty & indemnity (W&I) insurance solutions on UK takeovers, as well as a deferred consideration solution on a $700mn carve-out transaction. He has also played an integral role in facilitating client outcomes across Aon’s core Risk and Human Capital business lines, including the introduction of a W&I solution to enable a key trade in illiquid investments after a record £4.8bn pension buy-in transaction. Since 2018, Piers has authored the editorial chapter on M&A insurance for Lexology Panoramic: Private M&A (formerly, Getting the Deal Through).
Before joining Aon in 2015, Piers was senior M&A Legal Counsel for J.P. Morgan in EMEA and, prior to that, acquired a range of public and private M&A experience as an M&A/Corporate Associate at Skadden and Norton Rose. While at Skadden, Piers spent 2 years on secondment to the UK’s Takeover Panel.
Ravneet Mann
Ravneet Mann is a Partner at Stride Ventures. A senior investment leader with over 18 years of experience in investments, growth credit, strategic partnerships, policy and international market expansion. In her role as Partner at Stride Ventures, she leads the firm’s efforts to identify and develop high-quality investment opportunities, foster partnerships that enhance market access, and design strategies for entry into new geographies.
With expertise spanning technology, energy and consumer sectors, her work has been at the intersection of capital, innovation, and market development.
Stride Ventures is a global growth credit fund with presence in Asia, GCC and the UK. Starting her career at Merrill Lynch, Ravneet has also worked on FDI investments and policy advocacy at Invest India.
Rebecca Gibson
Rebecca Gibson joined Oakley in 2014 as a partner and has over 22 years of investment experience. Her responsibilities include managing the Investment Team, as well as leading the Investor Relations Team. Prior to joining Oakley, Rebecca was a partner at Cinven where she worked for 12 years.
Before that, Rebecca spent five years working as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Rebecca is also chair of level 20, a nonprofit organisation which aims to improving gender diversity in the private equity industry.Rebecca holds a BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Richard Briault
Richard Briault is a Director based in London at Equistone Partners Europe, a long-established mid-market European private equity firm. He joined Equistone in 2016, having previously spent a decade advising mid-market private equity firms across Europe at Duff & Phelps and DC Advisory.
Richard has investment experience across a range of sectors, in particular professional services, outsourcing and marketing services. He sits on the board of Acuity Knowledge Partners, Virgin Experience Days and Willerby.
Richard Coldwell
Richard Coldwell leads on the BBB’s private credit portfolio and has been with the BBB since 2012.
The British Business Bank invests in private credit funds, focusing on UK strategies and those supporting smaller companies.
This portfolio invests across a range of strategies including hybrid capital and venture debt.
Richard Fuller MP
Richard Fuller MP is the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the Government's Opposition, a position he has held since November 2024. In this role, Richard acts as the primary opposition to the equivalent Governmental position, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who is deputy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He has been the Conservative MP for North Bedfordshire since 12 December 2019, having previously represented Bedford as MP between 2010 and 2017.
Under the previous Conservative Government, Richard held the role of Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 2022.
Before politics, Richard worked for the management consultancy company LEK Consulting, and then the assets firm Investcorp.
Richard Hope
Richard Hope is the Co-Head of Investments and Head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In his role as Co-Head of Investments, he has broad leadership and management responsibilities across the global investment platform. He also heads the London office and sits on the Portfolio Management Group Committee and Evergreen Portfolio Committee.
Richard serves as a member of the Investment Committee and represents Hamilton Lane on several fund advisory boards. Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2011, Richard worked as a Director with Alliance Trust Equity Partners, where he helped establish a private equity fund investment business together with making a number of direct investments.
Previously, Richard worked in the U.K. at Noble Group, where he was responsible for making and managing venture and growth capital investments.
Robert Senior
Robert Senior co-founded advertising agency Fallon London, and helped it grow from a start-up to a 190-person, multi award-winning agency. We went on to sell the business to Publicis, where I became Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi.
Robert is passionate about all things ‘brand’. Robert's focus at Redrice is helping Founders build long-term brand value - taking their brands from being part of culture, to shaping it.
Robyn Garvie
Robyn Garvie is a Senior Partner and Client Leader at Aon. She has worked in client relationship management for 20 years across the Private Equity, Technology, Healthcare, Consumer and Professional Services industries, focusing on building strategic partnerships with clients that are grounded in a foundation of trust and exceptional client service.
Robyn joined Aon in 2016 from the Professional Services industry, having worked for PwC and EY. She is a member of Aon’s Private Equity Hub in EMEA where she leads the firm’s global relationships of a small number of private equity clients, spanning the house, the funds and portfolio companies.
Sanjay Mistry
Sanjay Mistry is Head of Alternative Credit at the PPF and was the interim Head of Alternatives (2019-2022) until that role was disbanded.
As a senior portfolio manager with almost 30 years investment experience Sanjay is responsible for setting the strategy and all investments within a portfolio, spanning all sub-investment grade credit markets. His mandate covers credit investments across public/private, performing/non-performing, long/short, corporate/infrastructure/real estate/asset backed sectors for the PPF's balance sheet. Investments may be on a direct or non-direct basis across primary and secondary transactions, through a combination of SPVs, fund of one and commingled vehicles. Soon after joining the PPF, Sanjay worked with the CIO to redesign and expand the PPF’s Alternatives team to its current form.
Today Sanjay is also a member of the ACC’s Investor Manager Committee, PRI’s Private Debt Advisory Council, MFA's Institutional Investor Advisory Council and the BVCA's Private Credit Forum.
Prior to the PPF Sanjay spent over 20 years with Mercer, having begun his career with Eagle Star Life Assurance. At Mercer he was initially in the advisory and manager research business focussed on portfolio strategy, portfolio construction and investment implementation matters along with due diligence of primary, secondary and co-investments initially in private equity before shifting to private debt investing around the GFC and then into Mercer’s discretionary fund of fund’s business. By the time he left Mercer he was their global head of private debt.
Over the decades Sanjay has completed numerous successful direct investments, managed several commingled and single investor vehicles, building a strong track record of outperformance.
Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Isobel Clarke. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Sarah has over a decade of experience making policy in the centre of government, mainly at HM Treasury. She has led on policy areas across tax, spending and financial services, including pensions tax, venture capital and insurance markets. With Isobel, she has been deputy director for business tax strategy at HM Treasury, and deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution at the Ministry of Justice.
Sarah lives in London with her family. She studied economics at the University of Cambridge and worked on global health economics before joining the civil service.
Sarah Cardell
Sarah Cardell was appointed Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in December 2022. She is a member of the CMA’s Board and leads the CMA’s Senior Executive Team. Sarah previously served as interim Chief Executive from July 2022. Prior to this, she was the CMA’s General Counsel (from September 2013), with responsibility for leading the CMA’s Legal Service and Policy & International directorates as well as the CMA’s Digital Market Unit.
As General Counsel, Sarah served as the legal adviser to the Board. She joined the CMA from Ofgem (the UK regulator for electricity and gas markets) where she was the Legal Partner of the Markets Division, leading on competition law matters.
She previously worked at Slaughter and May in London as a Partner in the Competition Group, advising across a wide range of EU and UK merger and antitrust cases.
Simone Tedeschi
Simone Tedeschi co-founded Juniper Investment Partners, a private equity holding that invests in tactical opportunities alongside specialist operating partners. Before establishing Juniper, he worked with Capmont, an alternative asset manager in Germany.
Prior to that, Simone was Managing Director at VTB, responsible for private equity and special situations in Europe. Earlier, he joined Standard Bank, managing capital solutions in emerging markets. He previously worked at Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong on equity derivatives and convertible transactions in global markets, having joined the firm after completing his MBA.
Simone started his career as a lawyer, practising at top law firms in Italy and the UK.
Sir Nigel Wilson
Sir Nigel Wilson is Chairman of CWG. Sir Nigel was Chief Executive of Legal and General from 2012 - 2024, having joined in 2009 as its Chief Financial Officer. Legal and General was Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2022 and 2023. Sir Nigel was Britain’s Most Admired Leader in 2017. Most Inspirational Leader in 2022 and 2023, Legal & General managed $1.5 trillion of assets.
Sir Nigel was knighted for services to the Financial Services Industry, Regional Development and Sport in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List. Qualifications include a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a Kennedy Scholar.
Stefania Ponzo
Stefania Ponzo is a Partner at Pi Labs, an early-stage venture capital firm investing globally in founders building a digital and sustainable built world. She brings 17 years of experience in venture capital and investment management, with expertise in portfolio leadership, fund strategy, and guiding high-growth companies from early stage through to exit.
Drawing on her academic training in financial mathematics and data science, she leads Pi Labs’ data analysis team and focuses on applying AI to enhance portfolio management and investment decision-making. A strong advocate for diversity, she has built a 50% female investment team and champions female founders across multiple sectors.
Stephanie Heller
Stephanie Heller's career includes founding, building and sitting on the board of several successful technology and financial companies in Zurich and London, such as the award winning fintech start-up Fractal Labs.
Stephanie takes her experiences as a founder and parlays that into guidance and direction to Bootstrap Europe’s portfolio founders in a pragmatic and compassionate way. Bootstrap Europe’s philosophy of providing debt financing for growth companies was nurtured between 2008 and 2012, when Stephanie, the managing partner for Bootstrap Europe was responsible for the private equity assets of Cape Capital AG - a Zurich-based multi-asset manager and family office, investing in a whole spectrum of companies, from start-ups to mature businesses.
Suzi Gillespie
Suzi Gillespie leads the Research team at the BVCA ensuring that the organisation is at the forefront of crucial analysis of trends and issues surrounding venture capital and private equity and the impact of the industry on the economy.
Suzi previously spent over 15 years at PwC in a variety of roles including Valuations, Pensions and Consulting. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and hold a degree in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Tim Dunn
Tim Dunn has been with Phoenix for more than 20 years, is a member of both the Management and Investment Committee and focuses his time on originating investments in business and technology services. He is also responsible for Phoenix’s portfolio growth and value creation capabilities.
Tina Page
Tina Page the Chief Operating Officer at Atempo Growth, where she oversees the firm’s operational strategy, process optimisation, and delivery of operational excellence. Tina has over 30 years of professional experience, including 23 years in private credit, previously serving as both Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at MV Credit. During her time there, Tina played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s operations and financial strategies, contributing significantly to its growth and success.
Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor is Head of Policy (Legal and Regulatory) at the BVCA, where he works with private capital firms, Government and regulators on policy issues and the development of UK, EU and US legal and regulatory frameworks affecting private capital.
Tom previously worked for eight years as a solicitor in the private fund formation teams of City law firms SJ Berwin/King and Wood Mallesons and Nabarro/CMS.
Vanessa Rocchi
Vanessa Rocchi is a Director on the Secondary team primarily focused on the origination, evaluation, and execution of non-U.S. secondary opportunities including partnership and GP-led transactions.
Vannessa joined Lexington as an associate in 2014 from Barclays where she was an associate in investment banking. She graduated from the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi with an MS in Finance.
Warren Brockway
Warren Brockway is based in our UK office and part of Westbrooke’s UK Corporate Capital Solutions team. Prior to joining Westbrooke, Warren worked in the leveraged and acquisition finance teams at Lloyds Bank and Rand Merchant Bank in London and has extensive private equity and corporate development experience having previously worked for Brait in South Africa and the UK. Warren holds a BCom, Accounting (Hons) from the University of Johannesburg.
Will Clark
Will Clark has the ultimate respect for anyone that take the brave step of starting their own business. With an unquenchable thirst for founder stories, Will loves to promote those who are central to building high-growth innovative companies.
As a kid Will's Dad would frequently take him on weekend visits into the transport business he ran. He became fascinated by the cash office and how the business made money and decided early on that he wanted to train as an accountant and become an FD.
Having graduated with an accounting and economics degree from Liverpool University, he joined the local office of Ernst &Young and became a chartered accountant specialising in owner-managed businesses and later financial due diligence. Will was fortunate to secure a secondment which introduced him to the fascinating world of private equity and venture capital.
Will jumped at the chance to join 3i in the North West and became absorbed with their post-investment activities. Ten years flew by and after completing a project with a London-based private equity business focused on secondaries, Will joined Mercia in 2011.
Since then, Will has been involved in deploying various funds across the UK and is now fortunate to be managing a great group of people who are focused on providing pre-seed and seed investment to the very best opportunities across the UK.
Will Kier
Will Kier lead’s Aon’s IP Risk & Structured Solutions practice for Aon across EMEA.
Will specializes in structuring complex IP lending transactions, enhanced with insurance. Will is responsible for driving Aon’s go-to-market strategy in EMEA and leads engagement with both insurance providers and lending capital partners. Will also advises Aon’s European-based clients on their IP Risk needs, including the availability and applicability of innovative insurance solutions.
Will has been with Aon for over ten years sending time in both London and New York. He has always focused on intangible asset solutions for multinational clients, first as a broker within the Financial Services Group, and more recently as a Director within Cyber Solutions.
Prior to joining Aon in 2011 Will was at the University of Birmingham. During his time in the industry he has become an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII).
William Thompson
William Thompson joined HarbourVest in 2019 and focuses on analyzing, structuring, and monitoring secondary private equity opportunities, including traditional and complex transactions.
William joined the Firm from Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently an executive director in the Investment Banking division focused on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector.
Prior to this, he was a senior analyst in the Healthcare Investment Banking division at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
William received a BS (with distinction) in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008, where he received the Walter S. Spearman Chancellor’s Award for achievement in scholarship, leadership, and character.
Zoë VanderWolk
Zoë VanderWolk joined ETF Partners as Head of IR and Sustainability in 2019 and became a Partner in 2023.
Following a degree in statistics and Mandarin Chinese, she practiced as a corporate lawyer in the City of London in the Environmental Finance group at Baker & McKenzie LLP. In 2013 she co-founded Accessible Clean Energy LLP, a listed fund investing across the clean energy value chain.
She is a musician, cook, party-thrower, reluctant cold-water swimmer, and a trustee of an educational charity serving the visually impaired. She lived on a houseboat but now lives in a school boarding house with her husband, two sons, 52 teenage boys and a golden retriever puppy.
She is a graduate of Harvard College (BA, Class of ’05) and the College of Law, London (LLB (Distinction), 2008).
UK Pensions Investment Summit
Meet the UK Pensions Investment Summit speakers
Andy Gregory
Andy Gregory is Chief Executive Officer of BGF and a member of the company’s Board. A founding member of BGF’s management team, Andy became CEO in 2022, having previously served as Chief Investment Officer. Over the past 15 years, Andy has played a central role in building BGF into the UK and Ireland’s most active growth capital investor, with a platform that spans every region and major sector of the economy. Andy brings over 30 years of experience in private equity.
His career has included senior roles at Livingbridge, Bridgepoint and Royal Bank Development Capital. Andy combines financial rigour with a long-standing commitment to supporting ambitious entrepreneurs and growing companies. He is a vocal advocate for diversity in business and currently sits on the Board of the Invest in Women Taskforce as well as NatWest’s Mid Market Council.
Andy is Chair of the BGF Foundation, BGF's independent charitable arm, which supports initiatives that improve the lives of young people across the UK.
Annie Hamill
Annie Hamill supports the Primary Investment Team in all aspects of the investment decision-making process.
Prior to joining Adams Street, she worked at Cambridge Associates as an Investment Associate. Previous to this role, she was a Project Manager at the Centre for Global Equality.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson was appointed CEO of Molten Ventures in October 2024, having joined the Group as CFO in 2016 and the Board in June 2019.
As CFO, he joined the Investment Committee and led on strategic projects across the business. Ben successfully built Molten’s balance sheet through equity and debt financing, broadening the shareholder register, and led Molten's transition to the Main Market. His efforts were pivotal to the Company's scale and resilience during a period of extensive growth and transformation, including multiple secondary portfolio investments.
Before joining Molten, Ben served as CFO for five years at AIM-listed President Energy PLC. Earlier in his career, he worked in M&A investment banking at ABN Amro/RBS, gaining significant cross-border transaction and corporate financing experience.
Ben is a Chartered Accountant (FCA) with a BSc in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He also serves as a member of Molten's Sustainability Committee.
Chris Bulger
Chris Bulger joined Vitruvian Partners in 2018 as General Counsel. In 2019, he was also appointed as Vitruvian’s Chief Risk Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (UK Senior Manager Function 17), as well as assuming responsibility for Compliance Oversight (UK Senior Manager Function 16). Chris is also a Director of various Vitruvian entities and from 2022 to 2024 served as a Board Observer of Snow Software Inc.
Chris is currently a member of the BVCA Legal Committee and Pensions & Private Capital Technical Expert Group and was previously a member of Invest Europe’s Financial Services / Regulatory Working Group. Prior to Vitruvian, Chris was an Executive Director and Senior Counsel at Goldman Sachs, where he supported the Merchant Banking Division, the Principal Strategic Investments Division and various Firmwide Investments. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Chris was at Slaughter and May for nine years, where he specialised in public and private M&A.
Dame Anne Glover DBE
Dame Anne Glover DBE is Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a leading European technology investor. With over 30 years of experience in venture capital, Anne has backed high-growth companies across the UK, Europe and emerging markets.
She is a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England, serves on the Yale Corporation Investment Committee and is an External Investment Committee of BII’s venture capital programme. Anne has held advisory roles to various UK governments on capital markets, inward foreign direct investment and pensions reform. She was awarded a CBE in 2006 for services to business.
Douglas Hansen-Luke
Douglas Hansen-Luke is the Executive Chairman of Future Planet Capital. After two years of research he founded the firm in 2015, following an extensive career in global finance and as an entrepreneur in Hong Kong, London and the Middle East.
He has worked in a series of senior broking, investment and asset management roles for firms including ABN AMRO and Robeco, with a focus on emerging markets and asset classes. He was also co-founder of Hong Kong’s first regulated online equity research firm.
He has sat on the Committee of the Royal British Legion Ball and the Jesus College, Oxford, Campaign Board and has made three trips to Rwanda for social action work with Project Umubano.
Emma Douglas
Emma Douglas is Aviva’s Wealth Policy Director, having moved into this role in September 2024, and is focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for savers. Emma joined Aviva in 2021 as Managing Director of the Workplace Savings business, responsible for c 24,000 schemes for 4.5 million people and their c £120bn of assets. Emma is also the Chair of Pensions UK (formerly Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association), holding this role from October 2021, having previously chaired the PLSA’s Policy Board since 2018.
Before joining Aviva, Emma was Head of DC at Legal & General Investment Management, where she was primarily responsible for developing LGIM's DC business. She joined LGIM in 2014 from Mercer where she held the position of Partner and Head of Mercer Workplace Savings. Previous roles in Emma’s career include the Head of DC Sales at BlackRock and Head of DC Pensions at Threadneedle Investments.
All told, Emma has more than 25 years of experience in the investment management industry. She graduated from Trinity College, Oxford with a MA in History, and holds an MBA from Manchester Business School via a Women in Management Scholarship from the Guardian.
Gregg McClymont
Gregg McClymont’s career has encompassed infrastructure investment, politics, pensions policy, and academia. Gregg joined IFM Investors in July 2020 from £30bn UK DC fund The People’s Pension. His previous role was as Head of DC at leading UK investment house Aberdeen Asset Management 2015-18. In politics, Gregg was UK Shadow Minister of State for Pensions 2011-2015 and a Member of Parliament 2010-15.
Gregg was also a member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on Further Devolution to Scotland 2014 and of the House of Commons Select Committees on Science and Technology and Business and Trade. Gregg initially trained as a historian: he was a Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Oxford – following undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Universities of Glasgow, Penn, and Oxford. He is the co-editor of three volumes on global pension investment systems design, Towards a new pensions settlement: the international experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, 2018, 2020).
Gregg sits on the Board of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) – the UK’s pensions trade body and has previously been a NED at The Lifetime Savings Alliance (TISA), Pensions Quality Mark (PQM) and the Pensions Scholarship Trust.
Harriet Assem
Harriet Assem is BVCA’s Head of Sustainability. Her role is focussed in supporting industry/market practice and delivering on strategic projects/initiatives with policy related work on new international sustainability standards (and other emerging initiatives).
Prior to joining the BVCA she spent a number of years in environmental consultancy.
Her most recent role included leading a team which provided ESG related strategy services to cross sector clients including private equity. She also played a lead role in developing and publishing the ESG Transparency A Private Equity and Venture Capital Index.
Previous to that, her career started in environmental due diligence where she worked on several high-profile merger and acquisition deals, providing environmental due diligence advice.
Ian Sandiford
Ian Sandiford leads the Private Markets investment team at Border to Coast Pensions Partnership and is responsible for overseeing the investment of £19bn in commitments from its 11 LGPS Partner Funds.
He has more than 20 years’ investment experience and joined Border to Coast in 2018 following a role as Senior Portfolio Manager at East Riding Pension Fund.
Isobel Clarke
Isobel Clarke is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Sarah Adams. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a job share partnership since early 2020.
They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Isobel has over 13 years’ experience of working on government policy, mainly at HM Treasury but also at the Ministry of Justice. She has led policy work on business rates, tax devolution and the scrutiny of tax reliefs.
James Thomson CBE
James Thomson CBE serves as Deputy Chair of Policy and Resources for the City of London Corporation, which oversees strategic priorities and the provision of local government services for the Square Mile’s 8,600 residents and over 678,000 workers. Elected as a Common Councillor in 2013, he also serves on the Finance, Investment, Community & Children’s Services Committees, and the Capital Buildings Board—overseeing a £700m programme including the new City Courts complex and City Police Headquarters.
He previously chaired the City of London Police Authority Board and its Economic and Cyber Crime Committee, which has oversight of the City Police as National Lead Force for fraud. A Police Authority Board member since 2015, he also served as a Special Constable for 12 years.
James is a Member of the City Bridge Foundation Board, which maintains London’s five City bridges at no cost to the taxpayer and distributed over £75 million to social justice initiatives in 2024/25.
Outside the City, James is a non-executive director of the Serious Fraud Office and chairs its Audit and Risk Committee. He was Chair and former CEO of MJ Gleeson plc, and prior to that CEO of Keepmoat. Earlier in his career, James held senior roles at Smith Group PLC, DTZ, and spent a decade in investment banking. At HSBC, he spent three years living in South Africa advising the ANC led Mandela Government of National Unity.
Jas Sidhu
Jas Sidhu joined LGPS Central at the launch of the pool and heads up the Private Equity team. Jaswant started his career in the Manufacturing sector with Audit, Accounting and Treasury roles, before joining WMPF as the Accountant. Jaswant then transitioned to the Private Equity team, where he invested globally across secondaries, venture, co-investments and buyout strategies.
Jas also covered WMPF’s investments in Commodities, Private Debt and Futures as well as the early investments in Infrastructure. Jaswant has over two decades of Private Markets investment experience.
Jo Sharples
Jo Sharples is a Partner in Aon’s Investment Practice and the Chief Investment Officer for Aon’s DC Solutions. She has over 20 years’ experience in the pension and investment industry and is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Jo is responsible for the development and implementation of delegated investment solutions for DC pension schemes, working closely with Aon’s UK delegated team.
John Chilman
John Chilman is the Chief Executive of Railpen which provides administration, investment management and advice to the railways pensions schemes. These are multi-employer pension schemes with over 350,000 members and c.£35bn in assets. Railpen also provides administration for c.100,000 members of third-party client schemes.
After graduating with a degree in Geography from St. Anne’s College, Oxford, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse. Following finance, change and M&A roles in South West Electricity and Shell, he moved into pensions, reward and leadership roles with FirstGroup, HBOS and National Grid.
John is currently Chair of the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Policy Board, a member of the PLSA Board, and a Trustee of the Pensions Policy Institute. He is also an experienced pension scheme trustee, both in the UK and North America, and is an Independent Trustee Director of the Nestlé UK Pension Fund, where he chairs the DB Investment and DB Funding committees.
John Gilligan
John Gilligan is Director of a globally recognised programme at one of the world’s premier business schools. He is also an educator, trainer and co-author of a series of books on Private Equity that have been adopted by global business schools, institutions and academia.
John is a partner level Corporate Financier in global professional service businesses for 20+ years and has raised over £1.5bn of private equity with realised cash profits exceeding £2bn. John is also a Trustee of The Big Issue Invest Trust.
Karen Sands
Karen is the COO of Federated Hermes Global Private Equity business. She has overall responsibility for ensuring a best-in-class organisational infrastructure for clients, investment teams and business development activities. Her role also involves growth strategy design and implementation including the planning and prioritisation of strategic initiatives.
Karen sits on the Federated Hermes Private Markets Management Committee and is a member of the private equity Senior Management Team. Karen previously worked in finance at Matrix Property Management and began her career at Equity Asset Management.
Karen is Chair of Invest Europe’s Professional Standards Committee, and she is Vice Chair of the British Venture Capital Association Accounting, Reporting & Governance Committee. She is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Karen holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Criminology and a Master of Arts in Psychoanalysis. At the Real Deals 2021 ‘The Drawdown Awards’, Karen received the accolade of ‘COO of the Year’ and was named on ‘The Drawdowns’ inaugural list of Operational Leaders in 2025.
Karim Palant
Karim Palant is Director of External Affairs at the BVCA, where he leads the Public Affairs, Communications and Research functions.
Karim and his colleagues tell the story of private capital through high-impact engagement with policymakers, stakeholders and the media.
Karim also oversees the BVCA’s agenda-setting research programme, which includes the Performance Measurement Survey - the largest primary research survey of its kind in the UK, and the annual Report on Investment Activity.
He has two decades of experience in tech and economic policy. From 2015, he led public policy and economic impact work at major tech firms - at LinkedIn and previously Facebook. Earlier in his career, he served as Head of Policy to the Shadow Chancellor.
Karim studied PPE at the University of Oxford, following his education at Calderstones Comprehensive School in Liverpool.
Krishna Shorewala
Krishna Shorewala is a corporate lawyer, specialising in investment funds and asset management.
Krishna advises clients on structuring, forming, operating and investing in a wide range of investment funds. He also advises asset managers on the key regulatory aspects of asset management, with a particular focus on the intersection of asset management with pensions and insurance. Krishna has participated in a range of industry wide initiatives with organisations like the Investment Association including around the LTAFs and the ongoing UK Pension Reforms.
Lucie Mills
Lucie Mills joined NorthEdge in 2019 to bring her experience of delivering change in a fast growth business to the private equity house itself.
As a Partner, Lucie supports NorthEdge portfolio companies to operationalise and deliver their value creation plan; facilitates portfolio connectivity to share learnings, best practice and access to the operating partner network; supports with Investor Relations and fundraising activities; and takes responsibility for ESG – recognising the role it plays in building better businesses and driving long-term value creation.
Lucie is also very active in wider industry advocacy, including taking on the role of Chair of the BVCA’s Responsible Investment Advisory Group in 2024 and regularly engaging with senior ministers to ensure the Lower-Mid Market & the UK regions are well represented in conversations regarding reform and policy development.
Maggie Loo
Maggie Loo looks after client relationships for Bridges Fund Management’s platform of funds and is responsible for raising capital for the firm’s investment strategies, spanning private equity, property and outcomes partnerships. These have included successive funds and separate accounts in existing strategies as well as the development of new strategies to the Bridges platform. She is also a member of Bridges’ Executive Committee.
Before her current role in Client & Strategy Development, Maggie spent her first five years as a member of the investment team of the Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds and worked on a number of investments in the Sustainable Living theme, including the successful exit of Whelan Refining.
Prior to joining Bridges, Maggie worked at London-based Climate Change Capital, a specialist merchant bank in the environmental markets. She started her career as a strategy management consultant with McKinsey & Co in New York City. Maggie studied environmental science and public policy at Harvard University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Maggie has served as a member of the British Venture Capital & Private Equity Association Advisory Group on Impact Investment, the Pensions for Purpose Advisory Group, the Financing a Just Transition Alliance, the Working Group on Place-based Impact Investing, and the Working Group on Re-visioning Social Investment as part of the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of sustainable and impact investment and the private markets industry.
Maria Busca
Maria Busca is responsible for investment policy across defined contribution pensions and annuities at the ABI. She leads the ABI's work on tracking the Mansion House Compact and was heavily involved in securing the Mansion House Accord. Her previous focus was on decumulation and later-life policy.
She joined the ABI in 2021 from Dods Group, where she advised insurers, banks, and trade associations on the latest political and policy developments impacting the sector. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Embassy of Ireland in London, covering foreign policy, trade and finance-related matters.
Maria holds a BSc in International Politics from City, University of London and an MSc in European Political Economy from London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mark Austin CBE
Mark Austin CBE advises clients on a full range of public and private securities offerings, as well as M&A and
general corporate matters across multiple sectors.
A recognized industry leader, Mark is the former Chair of the Listing Authority Advisory Panel. He also sits
on the FCA’s Markets Practitioner Panel and The London Stock Exchange’s Primary Markets Group. Mark is
a member of the UK’s Capital Markets Industry Taskforce (CMIT), as well as HM Treasury’s Digitisation
Taskforce.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer appointed him in October 2021 as the independent chair of the UK Secondary
Capital Raising Review. He also advised Lord Hill on the UK Listing Review in 2021. He received a CBE in
the King’s 2024 New Year Honours List for services to the economy.
Mark was named one of Europe’s top 10 most innovative legal practitioners by the Financial Times and was
included in Financial News’ Most Influential in European Finance list in 2024. In 2025, he received the
Contribution to Regulatory Reform Award from IFLR Europe.
Matthew McNally
Matthew McNally is Head of Strategy and Change for the Prudential Assurance Company Treasury & Investment Office. The T&IO undertakes the asset allocation, manager selection and mandate design for c£150bn of client assets. Matthew joined M&G in 2016 and his team is responsible for developing and delivering strategy to ensure that the T&IO remains fit for the future, and delivers best outcomes for customers.
Prior to joining M&G, Matthew was a management consultant with EY, covering financial institutions, and technical consultant at Legal & General.
Michael Marshall
Michael Marshall is Director of Investment Risk and Sustainable Ownership at Railpen, the investment manager and fiduciary adviser for the c£35bn UK railways pension schemes. Michael’s department is responsible for ensuring client capital is invested on a sustainable and risk-efficient basis. This includes investment governance, risk management of public and private markets, performance reporting, manager oversight, asset valuations, ODD and sustainable ownership.
Prior to joining Railpen Michael held a variety of senior roles in pensions, asset management and sustainability advisory. He is a member of advisory groups at the British Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (BVCA) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and is a Board Director of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). He studied economics at Bristol University.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is Chief Executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
Michael and his colleagues are focused on supporting the development of the private capital industry, as it invests in thousands of businesses and supports millions of jobs across the UK. As policymakers work on the competitiveness of the UK’s investment climate, Michael is confident that private equity and venture capital will continue to create significant public value through investment in growth, innovation and people.
Over the past 30 years Michael has operated at senior levels in both politics and business. In his political career he served in the Cabinet at the time of the Coalition Government, as Secretary of State for Scotland. He was a Member of Parliament for 18 years.
After the 2015 General Election, Michael became a Senior Advisor at PwC. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm.
Rashmi Madan
Rashmi Madan is a Senior Managing Director and Head of EMEA in Blackstone Private Wealth. Private Wealth's mission is to bring institutional quality products across a broad spectrum of alternative asset classes to high net worth clients and their advisors.
Ms. Madan joined Blackstone in 2011. Prior to her current role, she was Chief Operating Officer of Institutional Client Solutions (ICS) in Europe, as well as Head of ICS Europe for Blackstone Credit.
Before joining Blackstone, Ms. Madan worked for eight years in Credit Sales and Structured Credit at JPMorgan where she focused primarily on raising capital for CLO managers, hedge funds and private credit funds from European institutional investors. Prior to that, Ms. Madan spent five years at Morgan Stanley working in Leveraged Finance and Debt Capital Markets in London and New York, respectively.
Ms. Madan received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University where she majored in Industrial and Labor Relations.
Rob Barr
Rob Barr is a Partner and Head of Investor Relations for the EMEA, responsible for the overall leadership of the Investor Relations team across EMEA. In addition, he has been heavily involved in all aspects of the development and distribution of products for the private wealth and defined contribution markets. Before joining Pantheon, Rob was a Director at Deutsche Asset Management and prior to this worked in private equity for Morgan Grenfell Development Capital.
Rob qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) with Ernst & Young, having previously worked in industry for Johnson Matthey. He received a bachelor’s degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Isobel Clarke. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Sarah has over a decade of experience making policy in the centre of government, mainly at HM Treasury. She has led on policy areas across tax, spending and financial services, including pensions tax, venture capital and insurance markets. With Isobel, she has been deputy director for business tax strategy at HM Treasury, and deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution at the Ministry of Justice.
Sarah lives in London with her family. She studied economics at the University of Cambridge and worked on global health economics before joining the civil service.
Sarah Forster
Sarah Forster is CEO and co-Founder of The Good Economy (TGE), a leading, independent social impact advisory firm whose work not only aligns with but also influences global best practice. From strategy development to verification, TGE helps organisations to define, measure, evaluate, report and verify their impact. TGE is also leading work to scale-up institutional investment for place-based impact by catalysing the development of devolved, place-based approaches to impact investing through greater alignment and collaboration between asset owners, asset managers, local governments and other local stakeholders.
Sarah brings over 25 years’ experience in the fields of sustainable development, finance and impact measurement and management. She combines a strong knowledge of public and private sector development policy issues with hands-on experience in convening effective partnerships between government, business, financial and social sector organisations. In 2017, she was recognised as one of the UK's leading Women in Social Enterprise.
Sarah started her career in international development working for Afghanaid. From 1992 to 2001, she worked for the World Bank where led the design of large-scale poverty alleviation investment projects in Africa, South Asia and the Balkans, with a focus on microfinance and community-led development, particularly in post-conflict countries.
Prior to establishing TGE, Sarah held senior positions at the New Economics Foundation and Big Issue Invest and was the senior technical advisor to DFID’s Impact Programme which was instrumental in catalysing the impact investing market globally.
Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor is Head of Policy (Legal and Regulatory) at the BVCA, where he works with private capital firms, Government and regulators on policy issues and the development of UK, EU and US legal and regulatory frameworks affecting private capital.
Tom previously worked for eight years as a solicitor in the private fund formation teams of City law firms SJ Berwin/King and Wood Mallesons and Nabarro/CMS.
Limited Partner Summit
Meet the Limited Partner Summit speakers
Amy Abbott
Amy Abbott is the BVCA's Director of Industry Development. Prior to joining the BVCA in 2012, she was Head of Events & Awards at the Royal Academy of Engineering where she led a small team of event managers to deliver a highly regarded programme of events for the engineering fellowship comprising eminent chartered engineers, business leaders and Royal patrons.
During her nine years at the Academy Amy was secretary to several awards committees including the prestigious MacRobert Award; involving events at Buckingham Palace. She also played a fundamental part in the launch of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering where she was responsible for the launch event involving the former three party leaders. She has a BA Hons in Business and Marketing from Oxford Brookes University.
Dr. Rüdiger Stucke
Dr. Rüdiger R. Stucke is a Managing Director at CVC in London, where he focuses on strategic research initiatives. Prior to joining CVC in 2025, he spent 11 years at Warburg Pincus in New York and London, where he led the firm’s quantitative research initiatives.
Earlier in his career, he spent a decade in academia, including 7 years at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, where he co-founded the Private Equity Institute and published his research in leading finance journals. Rüdiger holds a PhD in Financial Economics (summa cum laude) and an MSc in Economics and Computer Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Paderborn.
Imogen Richards
Imogen Richards is a Partner and Head of Primaries in Pantheon’s European Private Equity team and also a member of the Global Primary Committee, ESG Committee and Allocation Committee. Imogen joined Pantheon in 2005, and prior to joining the primaries team, she was a member of Pantheon’s secondary team and also headed up the Investment Structuring and Strategy division. Imogen is also on the board of Level 20 and chairs the Senior Leader’s Committee.
Prior to Pantheon Imogen worked on small and mid-market private equity and mezzanine transactions for Anglo Irish Bank. She holds a master’s degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Imogen is based in London.
Isobel Clarke
Isobel Clarke is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Sarah Adams. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a job share partnership since early 2020.
They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Isobel has over 13 years’ experience of working on government policy, mainly at HM Treasury but also at the Ministry of Justice. She has led policy work on business rates, tax devolution and the scrutiny of tax reliefs.
Jennifer Choi
Jennifer Choi is CEO of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), a global membership organization dedicated to advancing the interests of Limited Partners through advocacy, education, research and industry engagement.
Prior to becoming CEO, Jen served eight years as ILPA’s Managing Director of Industry Affairs. During that time, she launched ILPA’s global advocacy platform to ensure that the LP perspective was being fully considered in global regulation and policymaking. With a focus on robust LP-GP dialogue around emerging issues, Jen led the creation and adoption of best practices such as the ILPA Reporting Template, the ILPA Principles and ILPA’s guidance on subscription lines of credit and GP-led secondaries.
In 2020, Jen founded the Diversity in Action initiative, a community of practice that has grown to more than 300 LP and GP signatories with the shared goal of taking concrete action to advance DEI in the private markets.
Before joining ILPA, Jen served as Vice President of Industry and External Affairs for the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), now known as the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA), where she led the association’s research programs and industry engagement activities. Previously, Jennifer was a consultant with Boston-based Stax Inc., providing due diligence and advisory services for leading private equity and venture capital firms.
Jennifer holds a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Augustana College.
John Euers
John Euers joined M&G plc in 2006 and is Head of Private Equity and Real Assets, a division within M&G’s Private Markets business. John is a member of the investment committee and has led a number of private equity primary, secondary and co-investment transactions. In turn, he represents M&G on a number of LPACs globally.
Prior to joining M&G, John spent seven years with the UK medical research foundation Wellcome Trust where he helped to manage their global private equity fund-of-funds portfolio. John began his career with State Street Bank. John received a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1995 and qualified as an Associate of UKSIP in 2001.
Katie Forbes
Katie Forbes is a Director working on Hg’s private investor activities within the Hg Wealth team, focusing her time on European investor coverage, as well as Hg wealth product and portfolio management. She is the lead Hg Fusion Product Specialist having co-led the development and launch of Hg’s private equity focused evergreen fund in 2023.
She joined Hg in 2017 as part of the Client Services team with responsibilities across institutional fundraising, project management and co-investment syndication.
Katie joined Hg from Aberdeen Asset Management where she spent six years, working first in the private equity fund investment team, and latterly with the infrastructure project finance team. She has a BA in Economics from Durham University.
Leon de Bono
Leon de Bono is the BVCA's Managing Director. Before joining the BVCA in 2010 he was the Publishing Director and a member of the team that launched Private Equity News, part of eFinancialNews, which was acquired by Dow Jones in 2007. He began working in the private equity industry with Caspian Media in 2001. He has a BA from University College London and an MA from The Courtauld Institute.
Mark Tucker
Mark Tucker (London) joined KKR in 2021 and leads the product team for Global Wealth Solutions. Prior to joining KKR, he spent ten years at HSBC Alternative Investments and was head of private market investments. He helped form the HSBC Alternatives Private markets business in 2011.
Previously, he was an executive director on the UBS Wealth Management Private Markets team, responsible for sourcing and originating private markets offerings for the UBS Private Wealth Private Markets programme. Mr. Tucker holds a B.Sc in Economics and Politics from the University of Bath and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore is Chief Executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA).
Michael and his colleagues are focused on supporting the development of the private capital industry, as it invests in thousands of businesses and supports millions of jobs across the UK. As policymakers work on the competitiveness of the UK’s investment climate, Michael is confident that private equity and venture capital will continue to create significant public value through investment in growth, innovation and people.
Over the past 30 years Michael has operated at senior levels in both politics and business. In his political career he served in the Cabinet at the time of the Coalition Government, as Secretary of State for Scotland. He was a Member of Parliament for 18 years.
After the 2015 General Election, Michael became a Senior Advisor at PwC. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm.
Nicolas Moura
Nicolas Moura is an EMEA private capital research analyst at PitchBook, where he covers the PE and VC markets in Europe. He contributes to quarterly core reports as well as analyst notes on various topics. Prior to PitchBook, Moura worked as an equity research analyst first at Berenberg and then at Mirabaud, transitioning from being a sector analyst into a generalist.
Moura received a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from University College of London (UCL) and a master’s degree in finance from Imperial College Business School. He is based in PitchBook’s London office.
Patrick Meniru
Patrick Meniru specialises in advising investment managers on the establishment and offering of private funds, together with the legal and commercial issues relevant to funds' ongoing operation as well as advising managers and investors in relation to secondary transactions, portfolio sales and primary investments.
Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams is Director of Policy at the BVCA, with Isobel Clarke. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and the BVCA committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.
Sarah has over a decade of experience making policy in the centre of government, mainly at HM Treasury. She has led on policy areas across tax, spending and financial services, including pensions tax, venture capital and insurance markets. With Isobel, she has been deputy director for business tax strategy at HM Treasury, and deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution at the Ministry of Justice.
Sarah lives in London with her family. She studied economics at the University of Cambridge and worked on global health economics before joining the civil service.
Suzi Gillespie
Suzi Gillespie leads the Research team at the BVCA ensuring that the organisation is at the forefront of crucial analysis of trends and issues surrounding venture capital and private equity and the impact of the industry on the economy.
Suzi previously spent over 15 years at PwC in a variety of roles including Valuations, Pensions and Consulting. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and hold a degree in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith joined Aon's investment practice in 2006. He acts as lead investment adviser to a diverse range of clients in both the public and private sector, encompassing both pension and sovereign reserve funds and with assets ranging from £100 million to over £5 billion. Tom also plays a key part in the formulation and delivery of new investment ideas through his roles on Aon's Advisory Investment Sub-Committee and UK Client Solutions Groups.
Tom Carlyle
Tom Carlyle joined Oakley in 2021 and his responsibilities include developing global LP relationships and fundraising.
Prior to joining Oakley, Tom worked at Houlihan Lokey where he was a senior member of the Private Funds Group, leading investor coverage in regions across Europe and Asia. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Tom spent six years at Coller Capital, where he was a Principal within the Fundraising and Investor Relations team. Tom started his career at Ernst & Young LLP, latterly in the Transaction Services team, performing sell-side and buy-side financial diligence for sponsor-led transactions.
Tom qualified as a Chartered Accountant at EY, and holds a BA Hons in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham.
Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor is Head of Policy (Legal and Regulatory) at the BVCA, where he works with private capital firms, Government and regulators on policy issues and the development of UK, EU and US legal and regulatory frameworks affecting private capital.
Tom previously worked for eight years as a solicitor in the private fund formation teams of City law firms SJ Berwin/King and Wood Mallesons and Nabarro/CMS.