Maria-Helen Maras

Investor @ BGF | ex-Accenture Strategy | Oxford University

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026
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Board Observer
Jul 2021
Pelago is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, opioids, and cannabis. Our solution gives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives. Pelago’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs deliver convenient, accessible, and effective support that seamlessly integrates with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and wellness platforms. Visit www.pelagohealth.com for more information.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
We’re a state-of-the-art medical practice with a root-cause, whole person approach and a focus on genuine doctor-patient relationships, data, and technology. Join the journey today - were hiring! Check out open roles at https://www.parsleyhealth.com/careers/
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Cityblock was founded in 2017 as the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs. We deliver better care to where it’s needed most, investing upstream in highly personalized, prevention-oriented health and social care to ultimately drive down costs and improve outcomes. Our tech enables scale by bringing together practical information, coordination, and communication for our members and our care teams. We are adamant about building a radically better member experience for people living in lower-income neighborhoods that have never been prioritized. And we won’t be satisfied with anything less than transforming the way that health services are delivered in previously underserved communities across the U.S. Join us! cityblock.com/careers
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2026
Investor
Aug 2026
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
2021
Board Observer
Nov 2021
Job&Talent is a world-leading provider of AI-powered workforce management for frontline industries. We help companies scale and manage their frontline workforce more productively, while giving workers access to better opportunities and the tools they need to thrive. Our mission is simple: to empower the people who keep the world running. Built on deep industry expertise, cutting-edge technology, and AI-powered agents, our end-to-end platform manages the entire frontline workforce lifecycle — from sourcing and hiring to workforce planning, time and attendance, performance, cost management, and communication. The result is measurable improvements in the areas that matter most to operations leaders: fulfilment, attendance, retention, and workforce quality. Each year we place hundreds of thousands of workers with thousands of blue-chip companies such as DHL, Frasers, GXO, THG, The Body Shop, Unilever, and UPS across sectors including logistics, manufacturing, and retail. Headquartered in Madrid, the company operates in 10 countries across Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
Pelago is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, opioids, and cannabis. Our solution gives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives. Pelago’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs deliver convenient, accessible, and effective support that seamlessly integrates with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and wellness platforms. Visit www.pelagohealth.com for more information.
Board Observer
Jun 2021
We’re a state-of-the-art medical practice with a root-cause, whole person approach and a focus on genuine doctor-patient relationships, data, and technology. Join the journey today - were hiring! Check out open roles at https://www.parsleyhealth.com/careers/
2020
Board Observer
Oct 2020
Cityblock was founded in 2017 as the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs. We deliver better care to where it’s needed most, investing upstream in highly personalized, prevention-oriented health and social care to ultimately drive down costs and improve outcomes. Our tech enables scale by bringing together practical information, coordination, and communication for our members and our care teams. We are adamant about building a radically better member experience for people living in lower-income neighborhoods that have never been prioritized. And we won’t be satisfied with anything less than transforming the way that health services are delivered in previously underserved communities across the U.S. Join us! cityblock.com/careers
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