Secil Ozgur Mennell, CFA, CAIA, FRM

Financial Services & IT Professional

πŸ“ United KingdomπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 1 investmentsπŸ“… 10 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Jan 2016
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Angel Investor
2016
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2025
Newton Fellow
May 2025
Newton Venture Program provides venture capital training and development for aspiring investors, practising investors, and others in the venture space. Our mission is to level the playing field for people from typically overlooked and underestimated backgrounds, ensuring that the next generation of investors represent the world we live in. Newton Alumni span the globe with more than 500 people from all backgrounds going on to secure positions in VC firms, accelerate their careers in VC, and become disruptors of the status quo. As of the start of 2024, 46% identify as female or non-binary, and 49% identify as the global majority. Newton is a joint venture between Phoenix Court and London Business School with founding partner, HSBC Innovation Banking. With our unique blend of faculty and practitioner teaching, we are training the investors of tomorrow to back the ventures of the future.
mid stageEducation
2016
Angel Investor
2016
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2006
Principal Consultant
Apr 2006
Rule Financial has now transformed into GFT in all markets; a leading provider of business, design and technology consulting services to the investment banking, asset management, wealth management community, counting some of the world's foremost financial institutions amongst our clients. Employing over 3,200 staff worldwide, GFT has offices that are local to our Capital Markets clients, in the City of London, New York, Boston and Toronto, and has nearshore development facilities in Spain, Poland, Costa Rica and Brazil. We offer end-to-end solutions, covering all aspects of advisory, execution and support services. Our domain specialisms include: Securities Finance, Collateral Management, Prime Services, Risk Management, Trading, Legal & Compliance and Operations. Our delivery specialisms include: advisory and execution services in system development, user-centric design, software development, integration, testing, on-going support and IT outsourcing. From 1st January 2015 we will no longer be updating the Rule Financial LinkedIn company page - please follow the GFT page for further updates. GFT is a global technology partner and one of the world’s leading IT solutions providers in the banking sector. www.gft.com