Directors & advisers
Clive Boothman
Independent, Non-Executive Chair
Date of Appointment: 01 August 2015
Clive has over 40 years’ experience in the financial services industry, initially qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. He was with Schroders from 1983 for seventeen years during which time he was variously Managing Director of Schroder Unit Trusts Limited for ten years and Managing Director of their international Private Client Group for the final two years. Since leaving Schroders, he has been Chief Executive of the stockbroker Gerrard Limited (2000 – 2001) and the fund platform Cofunds Limited (2002 – 2003). From 2004 – 2014 he helped establish and was Non-Executive Chair of Investment Funds Direct Limited, an investment wrap platform. Since 2014 he has been Non-Executive Chair of Platform One Group Limited, a UK and International wrap platform and a director of a number of its subsidiaries.
Lucy Armstrong
Independent, Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee
Date of Appointment: 01 March 2022
Lucy has spent over 30 years working with mid-corporate businesses to accelerate their development and success by focussing on shareholder and management development and succession. Her experience ranges from funding start-up and early-stage manufacturing businesses in the North East through to mergers and disposals of international operations. The organisations she is currently engaged with include Port of Tyne, Holker Estates, Cyberhawk and Caspian Learning. She is also Chair at Everflow Holdings Limited. Her early career was in private equity, corporate development and headhunting with 3i plc, Courtaulds Textiles and Tyzack.
Lucy was educated at Oxford University and holds an MBA and an MSc in forensic psychology and criminology.
Ian Blackburn
Senior Independent Director
Date of Appointment: 26 July 2024
Experience: Ian is an FCA who specialised in Corporate Finance at KPMG before building and selling two listed food groups. He has extensive UK and European strategic, operations and finance experience as CEO and FD of Perkins Foods Plc and Zetar Plc. Currently he is an active investor in a number of SMEs including Chairman and Non-Executive roles with Mood Foods Limited, SlimLine Wine Limited, Pink Prosecco Limited and Make it Plain Limited. He is also the treasurer of The Thomas Fryer Charity and a trustee of The Rutland Learning Trust (Multi Academy Trust).
Sarah Clark
Independent, Non-Executive Director and Chair of Investment Committee
Date of Appointment: 26 July 2024
Experience: Sarah has broad international commercial experience in a variety of industries including travel, retail, financial services, fintech and e-commerce in markets spanning Europe, the USA, and the Middle East and Africa combined with a deep understanding of digital technologies. Her experience ranges from running Central Europe, the Middle East & Africa at PayPal Inc to setting up and running European subsidiaries of North American start-ups, LootCrate and Clearco, one of the largest providers of revenue-based finance to ecommerce businesses. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Trilium Services Limited and of the Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund.
Investment Adviser
Gresham House Asset Management Limited
80 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6EE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7382 0999
Email: mobeusvcts@greshamhouse.com
Company Secretary and Administrator
Gresham House Asset Management Limited
80 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6EE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7382 0999
Email: mobeusvcts@greshamhouse.com
Registrar
The City Partnership (UK) Limited
The Mending Rooms
Park Valley Mills
Meltham Road
Huddersfield
HD4 7BH
Tel: 01484 240 910.
(Lines are open 9:00 am to 17:30 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays in England and Wales. Calls are charged at the standard geographic rate and will vary by provider. Calls from outside the UK will be charged at the applicable international rate.)
Email: registrars@city.uk.com
Corporate Broker
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited
40 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V 0BT
Tel: 020 7886 2716
E-mail: chris.lloyd@panmure.com
Independent Auditors
BDO LLP
55 Baker Street
London W1U 7EU
Receiving Agent
The City Partnership (UK) Limited
The Mending Rooms, Park Valley Mills
Meltham Road
Huddersfield
HD4 7BH
Solicitors
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
60 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V 0HR
Sponsors
Howard Kennedy Corporate Services LLP
1 London Bridge
London SE1 9BG
VCT Status Adviser
Philip Hare & Associates LLP
6 Snow Hill
London
EC1A 2AY
Distributor
Portunus Investment Solutions Limited
Office 416
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0HW