Focused on venture-building - as an advisor or co-founder/director. An investment and finance professional with over 20 years’ board and senior management experience. Has established and grown new business areas/ventures, managed a multitude of corporate and capital raising transactions and also established and overseen investment portfolios, ranging from new ventures to private credit. An analytical, reliable and free-thinking part of board and senior management teams. Experienced as a venture investor/board member for start-ups and early stage ventures. Has been a management-shareholder in the businesses that has been a part of and has successfully realised value from helping grow them.During 20+ year investment banking career, acted as a capital markets / financial advisor to businesses in the UK and around the globe across a broad range of industries, including Technology, Alternative Energy & CleanTech, Natural Resources, Business Services and Infrastructure. Was part of the founding team at leading UK independent investment bank Liberum, and established its investment banking team and then its Alternative Finance team.Operating within regulated environments, has been responsible for establishing processes for and management of regulated activities as well as creating relationships with government bodies, including the UK’s British Business Bank. Recent experience within a FinTech lender, establishing £1bn of institutional funding lines, has brought insight into combining technology solutions and personal contact for achieving customer engagement and organisational efficiency: creating a fast-moving and fulfilling culture for organisations, their customers and their staff.A Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the London School of Economics.