Julian F.

Professional background

• More than twenty years in senior management and advisory positions in the media sector, including with private company main Board experience.

• A wide general management skill base, with particular expertise in business and corporate development, commercial partnering and general strategy, complemented by proven line management credentials in demanding new venture environments.

• Specialties: Strategy development; business development; corporate development; new ventures; partnering; mergers, acquisitions and disposals; line management; board director.

Areas of Expertise

• Executive responsibility for venture investments in early-stage (near-revenue or early-revenue/pre-profit) technology opportunities in target sectors (software, data, information, analytics, workflow, digital, online).

• Current holdings: Contego Solutions (www.northrow.com), User Replay (www.userreplay.com), Fresh4cast (www.fresh4cast.com), Powered Now (www.powerednow.com), Kudos Innovations (www.growkudos.com), E-Fundamentals (www.ef.uk.com), Rotageek (www.rotageek.com), Repositive (www.repositive.io), Looop Online (www.looop.co), Gophr (uk.gophr.com) and Celixir (www.celixir.com).

• Exited holdings: Versarien (www.versarien.com), Farmvet Systems (www.farmvetsystems.com) and Desktop Genetics (www.deskgen.com).