Directors & advisers
Maurice Helfgott
Chairman and independent, Non-Executive Chairman
Date of Appointment: 12 February 2020
(Appointed Chairman: 1 July 2020)
Qualifications: BA Econ (Hons) MBA Harvard
Experience: Maurice has extensive experience as a Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director with a proven track record in entrepreneurial, growth and established businesses across a wide range of companies. After a successful 16-year corporate career at Marks and Spencer plc, he left his role as Executive Director on the Main Board to found Amery Capital with a principal focus on investment and advisory work in digital, retail and consumer businesses. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School with High Distinction. His current appointments include Chairman of ME+EM and Oliver Sweeney, Independent Director at Hakim Group and Executive Chairman at Amery Capital Limited.
Justin Ward
Independent, Non-Executive Director
Date of Appointment: 12 November 2019
Date of appointment: 12 November 2019.
Qualifications: BSc, ACA
Experience: Justin is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive financial, investing and private equity experience across a number of sectors. Between 1995 and 2010 he worked for CVC Capital Partners, Hermes Private Equity and Bridgepoint Development Capital leading growth equity and private equity buyout transactions and has subsequently made a number of angel investments in technology businesses. Justin has served on the board of a number of private companies as Non-Executive director and is currently Non-Executive Director at School Explained Limited. He is also a Non-Executive Director on the board of Hargreave Hale AIM VCT plc and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Justin is the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Investment Committee of the Company
Nemone Wynn-Evans
Independent, Non-Executive Director
Date of Appointment: 07 November 2022
Date of appointment: 7 November 2022.
Qualifications: MA, MBA, Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment
Experience: Nemone’s background is in the equity capital markets sector of the City of London, including as Finance Director on the main board of a stock exchange. She has an MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Having begun her career in corporate finance at KPMG and HSBC, Nemone is currently Chair of Shepherds Friendly Society, Chair of Audit and Risk at Good Energy Group plc, and Non-Executive Director of Hinckley & Rugby Building Society, where she also chairs the Nominations Committee. Nemone is the Chair of the Audit Committee.
Graham Paterson
Independent, Non-Executive Director
Date of Appointment: 26 July 2024
Experience: Graham is an investment and financial services professional with over 20 years’ experience in the private equity industry. A chartered accountant, Graham was one of the founding partners of SL Capital Partners LLP, (formerly Standard Life Investments (Private Equity) Ltd) where he was a Partner and Board Member until 2010. During his 13 years at SL Capital, he was one of the managers of Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc and was a member of the advisory boards to a number of leading private equity fund managers. In 2013, Graham co- founded TopQ Software Ltd, a technology company which develops software for the private equity industry. TopQ Software was acquired by eVestment Inc (now part of NASDAQ Inc) in 2015, where until early 2018, Graham was a Director of their private markets data and analytics business. Graham was Chair of Octopus VCT 4 plc until 2018 and is currently a Non -Executive Director of Diaceutics plc, Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc, Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and Chair of Datactics Ltd.
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
Hub: https://gresham-house-vcts.cityhub.uk.com/login
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
Sponsors
The City Partnership (UK) Limited
110 George Street
Edinburgh
EH2 4LH
Solicitors
Shakespeare Martineau LLP
60 Gracechurch Street
London
EC3V 0HR
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