Throughout his career, Ian has been involved in the quoted growth companies sector. His early career was as a stockbroker, analyst, broadcaster and financial journalist in this area and, since founding The Design Portfolio Marketing Services in 1991, he has been active in helping many companies in this sector with their investor communication and corporate reporting requirements.

Ian is also Chairman of Flathill Communications Group plc, President of The Design Portfolio Marketing Services Inc. and a member of the Investor Relations Society.

Jass is PwC’s UK Technology, Media and Telecoms Industry Leader. In this role, Jass leads the services PwC provides to its clients within the sector, ensuring that PwC offers insight, analysis and value and helping clients develop and implement strategies. Jass has worked in the sector for over 15 years, during which he has been based in Boston and London. He has significant experience with high growth companies, SEC and UK Listings, and the issues facing companies as they grow rapidly in a market dominated by change. 

Rosh leads Silicon Valley Bank’s Corporate Technology team in the UK, focusing on providing support and financing for technology and innovation businesses predominantly in the public markets.

With >18 years of financial services experience (including Barclaycard and Barclays’ Corporate and Investment Bank TMT team), Rosh has worked across a broad spectrum of growth and technology businesses including many high profile acquisition financings, LBOs, IPOs and public to privates. Since joining SVB in 2014, Rosh has built a market leading team devoted to later stage businesses and has since supported a number of key clients with debt and global treasury solutions including The Hut Group, Mimecast, Learning Technologies Group plc, CentralNic Group plc, IMImobile and GB Group plc.

Rosh has a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Southampton and is a Chartered Marketer. 

Kerry co-founded IQ Capital in 2006 and has over 20 years deep-tech venture capital experience. Originally with BDO Stoy Hayward, she joined Venture Technologies in 1998, investing in the first wave of UK internet companies and has focussed on early stage technology investing ever since. 

Kerry specialises in GTM, Strategic Marketing, Competitive Intelligence and board dynamics. She sits on several boards including FNA, Cybersmart, BMLL, Divido and Neurovalens and has conducted several IPOs and exits. 

She is known as a contributor to best practice in venture capital following her studies, including an in-depth study on Investment Committee best practice and decision making. She is the Vice-Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School).

Anton is a Managing Director and European Co-Head of Technology. 

He has been with Rothschild & Co since 2004 and has extensive experience across all types of transactions including: acquisitions, disposals, public and private M&A, IPOs, and debt advisory mandates. Anton has a broad technology remit with a particular focus on software companies. 

Rothschild & Co is one the leading global financial advisers, providing independent, expert advice on many high profile transactions. 

Anton earned a BBusSci (Hons) in Finance, Economics and Accounting from the University of Cape Town in 1999 and is a Chartered Accountant.

Harry is a financial PR and media strategist. Over the past 15 years, he has designed and implemented successful communications campaigns to raise the profile of public and private companies in a variety of sectors, with a particular strength in technology-led businesses. Harry has been the key PR adviser in over 30 IPOs on the London Stock Exchange (Main Market and AIM), NASDAQ and other global bourses, as well as in other transactions and corporate events such as M&A, MBOs, crisis communications, boardroom disputes and shareholder activism.

Harry’s strength in PR strategy is built on his previous experience as a management consultant advising foreign governments on their economic reform programmes. 

Fraser has nearly 23 years’ experience in investing in technology companies, the last 20 years of which have been with Herald Investment Management as a specialist TMT Investment Manager. He has lead responsibility for the Herald portfolios’ Asian exposure. He also has analytical responsibility for the semiconductor industry. Immediately prior to joining Herald, Fraser was a Technology Analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, where he covered the European technology sector. He also spent three years at Prudential as a UK Unit Trust Fund Manager.

Fraser has a degree in Economics from Lancaster University, an MSc in Investment Analysis from the University of Stirling and is an Associate of the CFA Society of the UK.

Pietro has been with Rothschild & Co in London since 2013 and gained extensive experience in UK/Europe across all types of transactions including acquisitions, disposals, public and private M&A, IPOs and debt advisory mandates. 

Rothschild is one of the leading global financial advisers, providing independent, expert advice on many high-profile transactions. 

Prior to Rothschild, Pietro qualified as a solicitor at Bristows LLP. Pietro has a Master of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London.

Arun has over 15 years’ experience covering the technology sector. During this time, he has worked with technology start-ups and as an Equity Analyst in investment banks and independent research firms. He was formerly a Technology Analyst for Canaccord Genuity, Altium Securities, Espirito Santo Investment Bank, Noble Group and Clear Capital.

He has a dual Master’s in Financial Engineering and Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. He obtained his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is also a CFA Charterholder. 

Jeremy joined AXA Investment Managers in July 2007 and is the lead fund manager of the AXA Framlington Global Technology Fund and the AXA WF Framlington Digital Economy Fund. In 2017 he was named winner of the Tech Fund Manager of the Year Award at the UK Tech Awards.

Previously, he was a senior portfolio manager at Close Investments (formerly Reabourne Technology), a subsidiary of Close Brothers Group PLC, from 2003 to 2007, having been a portfolio manager for the previous three years and an assistant portfolio manager from 1997 to 2000 with Reabourne Technology. During this time, Jeremy was the lead fund manager on several technology funds and won the FTSE techMARK Technology Fund Manager of the Year award in 2003 and 2005.

Jeremy holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics (1st class) and an MSc. in Systems Engineering from Cardiff University (1992-1996). He is also a CFA charterholder. 

We're delighted to welcome Nezahat to the voting panel again this year and further details will be available in due course. 

Fatima joined Polar Capital in April 2006 and has 14 years’ experience. She is a fund manager on the Polar Capital Technology Fund, Polar Capital Technology Trust and Polar Capital Automation and Artificial Intelligence Fund. She is responsible for the coverage of European Technology, Global Security, Networking, Clean Energy and Medical Technology. Prior to joining Polar, Fatima spent 18 months working at Citigroup Asset Management with a focus on consumer products and pharmaceuticals. Fatima holds an MSc in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry from Imperial College of Science & Technology in London. She is also a CFA Charterholder.

Eric is a Partner at Arma Partners, Europe’s pre‑eminent advisor to companies in the Digital Economy. Since January 2016, Arma has advised on 75 M&A transactions worth in excess of $35 billion, as well as 18 financing transactions for Europea's leading growth companies.

Prior to Arma, Eric was Managing Director and Head of European Internet/Digital Media at Jefferies.

Richard has enjoyed a very successful career in the technology sector, most notably having served with AVEVA Group plc for 33 years, during which time he was CEO for 17 years. He retired from that role in December 2016; since then he has gone on to serve some of the UK’s brightest tech companies.

He is Senior Independent Non-executive Director at Alfa Financial Software Holdings plc, and served as a Senior Independent Non executive Director of Fidessa group plc from March 2017 until the company’s sale in August 2018. He has been Chairman of Process Systems Enterprises Ltd since January 2015 and a Non-executive Director of Prometheus Group Enterprises LLC in the US since June 2017. 

Rich has in excess of two decades of equity market experience, around half of which was gained as part of the top rated UBS Pan European Equity business in London. During that period Rich held senior positions across equity distribution, sales trading and trading with all roles anchored on senior management level discourse with both senior fund managers and board level management of both listed and unlisted business. 

Elona is the Chief Executive Officer of IRIS Software Group and is responsible for all operations across the Group. Elona is dedicated to ensure IRIS is the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services. She is very passionate about building winning teams that put our customers at the heart of everything we do, providing them with an exceptional experience and value-add solutions.

She joined IRIS in 2016 as Chief Financial Officer, and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2018 responsible for a wide range of functions including revenue generation, customer service and all back office functions. In 2020, Elona was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Purplebricks, the UK’s leading hybrid estate agency. Before joining IRIS, Elona held several senior leadership roles in Big 4 and PE-backed businesses, including Mavenir, Acision, Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. 

Elona graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Accounting and Economics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Awards include UK Tech Awards Business Woman of the Year 2020; Global Banking and Finance Business Woman of the Year UK 2020 and the Venus National Finance Professional of the Year 2018.

Milan is founder and managing director of 2020re:think, a corporate development and research consultancy focusing on the technology sector. Milan is currently working on a long-term basis with a global data centre operator and a leading equity research provider.

During 25 years at global investment banks and as a fund manager for a major asset manager, he has worked on many high-profile successful IPOs and other complex capital markets transactions.

In recent years, Milan has won many significant awards. In 2017, Milan was the No.1 earnings estimator in the UK for his sector in the Thomson Starmine Awards. This followed No.1 for Europe in 2010 and 2011 and a No.2 in the UK in 2011. In 2015, Milan and his team were ranked no.1 in the Extel Awards by corporates for Midcap technology research. Milan has also been techMARK Analyst of the Year and achieved top 3 II rankings. 

Dr Mark Reilly is Head of the IP Group plc Technology business, running a £350m portfolio of early-stage, “Deep Tech” companies. The portfolio includes some of the UK’s most exciting emerging technology start-ups, such as First Light Fusion, Ceres Power, Wave Optics and Ultrahaptics. Mark has 10 years’ experience as a Board Director of early-stage technology companies and has overseen well over 100 private and public company equity investments.

Prior to joining IP Group, Mark was the founder and Managing Director of Remarkable Innovation, a Singapore-based technical due diligence company with a range of international Fortune 500 and national government clients. Mark began his career at the technology company Marconi plc. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Stephen is a Partner at ECI Partners, the leading growth-focused mid-market private equity firm. Since joining in 2015, he has worked with a number of our software investments, having led the 2020 investments in Mobysoft, a provider of predictive analytics software; and CIPHR, a provider of HR, payroll and learning software; and previously worked with CPOMS, the provider of safeguarding software to schools. He has also worked with our investments Bionic, the business price comparison service provider; Imagesound, the AV media solutions provider, and Great Rail Journeys, the provider of escorted rail holidays. Prior to joining ECI, he spent nine years at PwC.

Benjamin is Head of Equity Capital Markets at Zeus. He has advised European growth companies for over 20 years and was previously Managing Director of Jefferies ECM and before that Managing Director at UBS responsible for technology investment banking.  

Harvey recently joined Panmure Gordon as a Technology Research Analyst. Harvey started his career in 1990 at UBS Philips and Drew, moving to HSBC James Capel, before joining the Building and Construction team at BZW. In 1998, Harvey moved to ABN AMRO maintaining top 3 ratings in research surveys. In 2000, Harvey took the opportunity to move into the tech sector and established a highly rated franchise (Top 3 in Extel Rankings), including Banking relationships with ARM Holdings PLC, ASML and Philips. In 2007, Harvey moved to Collins Stewart before co-founding Ki Capital, an equity hedge fund, where he continued to focus on tech from where he joined Whitman Howard as a Tech Analyst in November 2016, at Whitman Howard Harvey was responsible for research coverage for IMImobile, and Blue Prism amongst others. In 2019 Harvey moved to a corporate finance boutique with a focus on private capital, before joining PG in July.

Julie joined Panmure Gordon in November 2015 from Canaccord Genuity. She has 20 years’ experience in life sciences research, covering both UK and continental European companies across a wide range of healthcare subsectors. Julie has a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Kent and experience in industry in both Europe and the US. She is also a panel member for NIHR i4i (invention for innovation), assessing early-stage medical technologies.