Early Stage Venture Capital for British Technology Companies

 


Harry Fitzgibbons, Managing Director.
hf@toptechnology.co.uk

Harry was a director of Hambros Bank from 1972 to 1983 with responsibility for United States corporate finance and for Hambros' portfolio of international unquoted investments. He was instrumental in establishing Boston Hambro Capital Company and Hambro International Venture Fund, both of which were venture investors in the United States. He left Hambros for two years to set up the London subsidiary of L.F.Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin, an American investment bank before returning in 1986. Harry was educated at Harvard College and Trinity College, Oxford and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. After briefly practising law in New York, he served as an officer with the United States Special Forces and with the Department of State, Washington DC. Before joining Hambros in 1972, he was an international banker for four years with Lehman Brothers in New York.

Magnus Goodlad, Investment Director
mg@toptechnology.co.uk

Magnus joined Top Technology Ventures in June 2000 after four and a half years with Slaughter and May practising a wide range of corporate, banking and finance law. He has worked for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong and China and as a consultant to URI Inc, a software services provider based in Seoul, and to Lobster.co.uk, an online fine food and wine retailer. Magnus has a first class degree in Law from Oriel College, Oxford. He is a director of Commerce Decisions Ltd, OneClickHR plc and Nanotecture Ltd.

Charles Winward, Investment Manager
charles.winward@ipgroupplc.com

Charles joined IP Group plc in April 2007 to manage investments in Top Technology Ventures, the Group’s venture capital fund management subsidiary. Previously Charles was Vice President Technology Infrastructure at JPMorgan Chase & Co, where he worked in a variety of roles in London, New York and Brussels, and Investment Manager at Axiomlab, an AIM-listed early stage investment specialist. Charles has an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol.

 


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