About

Revolutionising the economy

Our Team

  • Board & Senior Management
  • Advisory Board

Xavier Rolet KBE

Chairman of the Scientific and Investment Advisory Board

Previous experience:

  • Named by Harvard Business Review as one of the Best 100 CEOs in the world
  • Globally renowned for transformative tenure as CEO of London Stock Exchange Group, growing market capitalisation from $1.2 billion to $21 billion
  • Board Member, Saudi Tadawul Group; External Director for Portfolio Companies at the Public Investment Fund (PIF), sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia
  • Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University; Board Member, Columbia Business School and Yale Center for Business and the Environment

 

Ian Pearson

Non-Executive Chairman

  • Currently Non-Exec Director of Thames Water
  • Previous experience includes: Minister of Trade; Science Minister; Economic Secretary to the Treasury; Chairman of Octopus VCT2 plc
  • Extensive experience in management of companies, excellent network to investors and government institutions

Steven Metcalfe

CEO

  • Previous experience:
    • Hitchens Harrison
    • Novum Securities
  • Extensive experience in advising on listings, fund raisings and capital markets in general
  • Board member of several listed companies

Stuart Nicol

Chief Investment Officer

  • Highly experienced VC investor
  • Previous experience:
    • CIO At two regional UK venture funds
    • Director at Octopus Investments
    • Director at CrowdCube
  • Extensive experience in corporate finance, including M&A, VC investing and capital markets

Kirill Pyshkin

PhD,
Managing Partner

Previous experience:

  • Lead fund manager of multi-billion equity funds at Credit Suisse and Aviva Investors
  • Semiconductor and global tech analyst at JPMorgan, AllianceBernstein, and Amundi
  • Board and Venture Committee member at Ufi Trust (early-stage VC);
• CIO of a fintech platform;
• PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge

Simon Frost

CFO

Qualified Chartered Accountant

Previous experience includes:

  •  Partner at Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co. (KBR)
  • Head of the KBR, the Corporate Finance division of Walker Crips Group plc
  • Group CFO of Proactive investors