Ken Yeadon

Managing Partner and Co-Founder. - A recognised innovator in financial technology, with over 25 years experience in management, trading, technology, large technology project management, and venture investing. Former head of trading, sales and e-commerce for HSBC Asia-Pacific. Successful track record in angel and venture investing in financial technology, and in high frequency trading, stat-arb and quantitative/arbitrage trading and liquidity management infrastructure and financial CRM projects. Ken has an MBA from John Cass Business School and a BA in economics from Nottingham.

Mike Powell

Managing Partner and Co-Founder - Former Global Head of Markets for HSBC and member of HSBC Group Executive Committee. A seasoned Global Macro investor with extensive strategic management experience, and excellent contacts amongst senior Hedge Fund managers, bankers and regulators. Mike serves as a non-executive director of Jadwa Investments. Mike has also served as a senior Advisor to Moore Capital.

Sammy Kanan

CTO - An experienced project manager and IT strategist, Sammy has over 20 years of consulting experience of distributed systems architecture at financial institutions like HSBC and Bank of America, and for vendors such as GigaSpaces, IBM and TIBCO. Previously he lead the development of operational monitoring for a B2B eCommerce portal at Standard Chartered in Hong Kong and has carried out specialist market data roles for ABN Amro and Goldman Sachs.

Paul Cooper

CFO - a qualified CIMA accountant for over 25 years with major PLC and AIM flotation project management experiences. He has considerable IT experience through system implementations, and roles within the IT sector. In addition to the IT sector experience he has worked for long periods of time in the Engineering and Construction sectors where he gained in depth knowledge of numerous costing methodologies. Paul is an experienced finance director working with us through the market leading provider of part-time finance directors; the FD Centre. In this capacity Paul is available to help our portfolio companies with their record keeping, budgeting, financial planning, fund raising, and the definition and operation of their internal processes.