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University of East Anglia

Bangor University

Retired September 2023 other than active engagements below, not seeking new engagements

A breakthrough plant-based endurance fuel to optimise exercise performance. BACX formulations isolate and exclude those chemical compounds, found in many sports nutrition & drinks products, which are proven to inhibit performance and potentially health. The nutrients that matter most are delivered organically from plants, and in the right proportions, to provide sustained energy and hydration for optimised exercise performance. BACX is also the first to customise for gender, exercise intensity, duration and activity type. Website coming soon!

BACX Life Sciences

Investor Director and Investor (Chairman 2020 to March 2023)

In the regions, from the regions, to the regions. Mercia Asset Management PLC is a proactive, specialist asset manager focused on supporting UK regional SMEs to achieve their growth aspirations. Mercia provides capital across its four asset classes of balance sheet, venture, private equity and debt; the Group's 'Complete Capital Solution'. Mercia initially supports businesses via its third-party funds under management, then selectively can provide scale up capital from its own balance sheet resources to businesses emerging from its managed funds’ portfolio.

The Group has a strong UK footprint through its regional offices, university partnerships and extensive personal networks, providing it with access to high-quality deal flow.

Mercia Asset Management PLC is quoted on AIM with the epic "MERC".

Mercia Asset Management PLC

Non Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee

Hatch. delivers a holistic and new housing product that provides a seamless process from site evaluation and funding through design, manufacture and delivery in partnership with the client: it’s the building process: Evolved to meet the needs of communities today and more importantly, tomorrow.

hatch.

Investor Director (Chairman 2017 to September 2023)

PURCHASED by Cloudfind Ltd

Using AI and Machine learning; we match advertisers to their best affiliate partners. We show you what affiliates your competitors are using as well as highlighting what domains an affiliate is using to promote your brand.

| Publisher Discovery |

Investor Director and Investor

ClickerMe is a network for people who live and breathe fashion - a place for fashion professionals to connect, collaborate and grow. Showcase your work, find your inspiration, or discover your 
next big move all from one place.

ClickerMe

Advisor

Accountagility is a fast growing business offering a range of solutions specifically designed to meet the demanding and exacting standards required by best-in-class Finance functions.

Accountagility

Advisory Board Member

PURCHASED by Scribble Live Inc

Was engaged by the Board to assist in the restructuring, refocusing and subsequent sale of Linkdex Ltd to Scribblelive Inc

We are proud to be the foundation upon which clients successfully manage their SEO activity and maximize delivery against brand and acquisition goals. 

Linkdex is the world’s leading SEO platform for in-house teams and their agencies. Over 200 such teams, covering thousands of brands, utilize the Linkdex Enterprise SEO platform across the globe, with the vast majority of the world’s largest advertising and SEO agencies using it as their primary solution.

Linkdex

Chairman of the Board

Envolve is a marketing platform allowing brands to speak to their visitors in real-time using AI and guided conversations.  We transform the way you communicate with your customers. Using live chat, we give you the chance to instantly respond to any question a customer has, with the right answer every time. We put your customers at the heart fo everything we do, encouraging interaction and delivering replies that are contextual and relevant.

Envolve Technology

Investor Director and Investor (Chairman 2014 to 2019)

PURCHASED by FullCircl Ltd

W2 provide a wide range of web-based, online screening tools and services to help organisations make quick, informed decisions about the people and organisations they are interacting with. 

The solutions and associated services that W2 provide enable organisations to achieve regulatory compliance by conducting Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Fraud prevention due diligence. W2 offers solutions including, but not limited to, Age & ID verification, PEP and Sanctions screening, Enhanced Due Diligence, device location and reputation management as well as a wide range of professional services. 

W2 have partnered with some of the world’s largest data providers to ensure that you get simple, real-time access to reliable, up to date information. 

Through the W2 software platforms, we are able to aggregate data from a wide spectrum of suppliers so that you can have a single point of integration to a myriad of data sources and ancillary service providers. 

W2 services extend to both consumer and corporate through UK domestic and international markets. 

The streamlined services that W2 provide allow for frictionless customer on-boarding and safer account acquisition. Our customisable search filtering allows for increased application conversion with a reduced total cost of operation.

W2 Global Data

Independent Director and Investor

Thorium Technology Investors

Co Founder

PURCHASED by Sabio Group

Make Positive is an innovative tech company that provides cloud computing solutions and develops apps. Over the past 10 years, we have provided consulting services to a range of companies, including to 10 of the FTSE100, working with them to develop and implement their next generation cloud-based strategies. Make Positive has built and licensed a number of software products relating to business collaboration, billing and order management, CRM, social enterprise, and mobile content platforms and apps.

makepositive

Non Executive Board Director and Investor

Using AI and Machine learning; we match advertisers to their best affiliate partners. We show you what affiliates your competitors are using as well as highlighting what domains an affiliate is using to promote your brand.

CLOUDFIND LTD.

PURCHASED by Insites Consulting

Chairman from 2013 to 2016 bought in by 4 VC Refocused, restructured and refinanced this excellent company

Post refinancing stepped back to be a NED

At eYeka, we believe in the collective intelligence and exponential creative power of crowds.

We nurture a global community of more than 350,000 creative individuals around the world who deliver fresh ideas and original content by participating in crowdsourcing competitions.

By combining the creative power of our community with the expertise of an agency, we fuel the world's best brands’ innovation roadmaps with relevant product and experience concepts, offer fresh perspectives on packaging and point-of-sale designs, ideate original campaign ideas and create shareable video content.

Brands and agencies that co-create are more relevant to what people really want, increasing their relevance in the market, while providing a chance for people's voice and talent to be acknowledged.

eYeka, a world of ideas for better brands!

eÿeka

Non Executive Board Director and Investor (Chairman from 2013 to 2016)

Rethinking mental health care

Having been on the Board for over 4 years and successfully concluding an £18m fund round, my job was done

Ieso offers real-time one-to-one therapy online for people dealing with depression and anxiety. Our proprietary web-based platform enables Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to be delivered in real-time by real therapists using the Ieso method of written (typed) conversation.

As the largest provider of online CBT in the UK, we have treated more than 7,000 patients and captured over 75 million clinical data units in our unique therapy database. These data are then analysed, with the findings being used to support continuous improvement in the product and in the therapists’ performance. Find out more about our clinical evidence and research.

Through the union of People, Process and Technology, Ieso Digital Health is transforming the accessibility, accountability and affordability of evidence-based mental health therapy.

Ieso Digital Health

PURCHASED by Intelligere Ltd

At Centralis we change IT for the better by understanding our customers’ business, budget and user requirements, matching these to proven technology solutions. 
 
Experience
With a quarter of the UK’s top public and private sector organisations as customers, Centralis is arguably the UK’s leading independent specialist in delivering desktops as a service.  We specialise in designing, building and managing desktop services which enable our customers to work more flexibly, effectively and securely from any device and location.  By doing this Centralis transforms the way customers deliver IT services to end-users, simplifying  the client device to make it a commodity, standardising applications & desktops to deliver them as a service and centralising their management to create a single point of change.
 
Attitude
We work in partnership with our customers, using our understanding of their needs to drive joint success.  That simple, yet compelling proposition has underpinned our business for over 16 years for customers from the FTSE 100 through to medium-sized businesses and across every aspect of the public sector including local government, health and education.  
 
Customers typically choose Centralis the first time because of our strong technical skills, endorsement by Citrix, IBM, Microsoft and VMware and the reference customers in their sector.  They choose Centralis a second time because of our commitment to understand and meet their objectives and to deliver their projects on time and to budget.
 
Results
Our solutions help customers change the way they work with their users, customers and business partners, removing barriers to change and delivering critical organisational objectives such as desktop transformation, flexible working, BYOD, business continuity and workforce mobility.

Centralis

Chairman of the Board and Investor

DN Capital's objective is to identify, invest in and actively support leading digital media, e-commerce, software and mobile applications companies on a global basis.

The investment professionals at DN Capital bring more than 50 years of early stage and growth equity experience to their investments, and work with portfolio companies to guide their growth through the various stages of development. We help portfolio companies by leveraging our extensive global network of managers, investors, and intermediaries who are actively involved with DN Capital's portfolio companies.

DN Capital LLP

Special Industrial Advisor for Enterprise Software

Post trade sale of Datanomic to Oracle, I work on the integration of customers, partners, staff, process and go to market strategy within the Oracle team

Oracle

Vice President of Data Quality Strategy

Jonathan is a Director of JVP Consultants Ltd, a consultancy that offers management consultancy NXD and Chairman roles

Now retired

Not seeking additional work

JVP Consultants Ltd

Director and Owner

Jonathan as CEO undertook a radical review and restructuring of the Company. Under his management the Company experienced meteoric growth. The Companies global customer base increased by a factor of 20 and revenues grew over 105% compound year on year (Dec 2010). 

Datanomic was the biggest independent Data Management and Risk & Compliance Screening Company in the world, with offices in Cambridge UK, New York City in USA and in Asia

The Company enjoyed a placing in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools (2009 and 2010) and held a host of Industrial awards including being placed 11th fastest growing privately held Tech Company in the UK (Times September 2010)

He was instrumental in the management of the Company which included go to market strategy, customer aquisition, geographical expansion, financing, investor relations and preparing the Company for exit

Datanomic Ltd PURCHASED by Oracle  Inc

CFO then COO then CEO, Board Director and Investor

Finance Director then Senior Finance Director continuing my activities for EMEA, APAC and LATAM combining prior aquisitions of Convergys to form a centralised finance function

Dr Jonathan Pell BSc, PhD, ACA (Retired ACA)