Tom Gilchrist

Investment Manager at LDC

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 5 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Nov 2024
Blacklock is a modern version of the Great British Chophouse. We aim to serve the best meat our fair land has to offer, for the best value for money, by people who genuinely care about making peoples experiences memorable. We work from a simple philosophy that everyone who walks through our doors leaves happy. That goes for our guests but most importantly, the teams of people that come to work at Blacklock every day. Our culture puts our team first and the care and development of all Blacklockers at the heart of everything we do. We offer jobs that are challenging and exciting with decent pay and benefits and invest heavily in training to build careers that can take you far within our great industry. The core of our ethos is people development, sustainability and leave a positive mark on society and the environment. 📍 London | Manchester (coming soon)
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2025
Investment Manager
Sep 2025
For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. Part of Lloyds Banking Group, our experience, scale, and relationship-based approach have helped hundreds of management teams across the UK to grow their businesses, their way. In the last decade, the businesses we’ve supported have grown 3.3x more than the national average, and the businesses weve exited in that period have increased in enterprise value by £10.3bn. We offer strategic support, challenge when necessary and provide flexible growth capital as either minority or majority shareholders. This means we can help management teams to deliver a range of different growth strategies – including making acquisitions, investing in operations or sales and marketing, broadening products and services, or expanding overseas. With a national network of 10 offices, our teams live and work right across the UK. By combining local relationships with national scale, we’re able to build trusted relationships from day one. Our experience has seen us invest in companies across more than 50 sub-sectors, supporting the whole of the UK economy, through a range of economic cycles.
2024
Board Observer
Nov 2024
Blacklock is a modern version of the Great British Chophouse. We aim to serve the best meat our fair land has to offer, for the best value for money, by people who genuinely care about making peoples experiences memorable. We work from a simple philosophy that everyone who walks through our doors leaves happy. That goes for our guests but most importantly, the teams of people that come to work at Blacklock every day. Our culture puts our team first and the care and development of all Blacklockers at the heart of everything we do. We offer jobs that are challenging and exciting with decent pay and benefits and invest heavily in training to build careers that can take you far within our great industry. The core of our ethos is people development, sustainability and leave a positive mark on society and the environment. 📍 London | Manchester (coming soon)
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2023
Board Observer
Aug 2023
Alpha Development is a global financial training firm whose clients include the world’s most highly regarded investment banks and asset managers. With offices in the UK, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and the US, we offer global coverage and deliver training in more than 20 countries. We deliver financial products and markets, professional skills, leadership, management and talent programmes to firms worldwide. Our specialist nature means we can bring the training to life with practical examples of how your firm operates in a particular market. Whether we are working with summer interns or global heads, our financial trainers have built their reputation by helping make significant improvements to our clients’ P&L. We are passionate in making our programmes the most practical in the industry. We dont teach people to pass exams: we help people be better at their jobs.
Board Observer
May 2023
We Are Elements. We are the pioneers of Embedded Talent Consultancy. We built the embedded model around our very first partners: Spotify and Atlassian. We knew that the traditional, transactional dynamic served neither party well. So we created something entirely different. Focusing on the transformative impact of effective collaboration, we work alongside our partners as trusted consultants. Advising from the inside, our people go deeper, inspiring truly meaningful change. The success of our approach has meant that we’ve grown quickly. Over the last 10 years, we’ve worked with brands like Deliveroo, Apple, Booking.com, IKEA and King. For each partner, we’ve built a bespoke team of embedded consultants, capable of advising right across their talent and people functions. Today, Elements is present worldwide, with offices in New York, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Singapore and Stockholm, as well as London. Looking to improve your TA function but dont know where to start? Try our free diagnostic tool here 👉🏽 https://advisory.weareelements.io/
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Harnham provides specialist Data and AI recruitment and staffing services, along with bespoke training solutions, across multiple industry verticals, operating in the UK, the USA and EU - contact us today to discuss your requirements: info@harnham.com Our recruitment and talent teams cover all aspects of the data and AI pipeline, from collection to consumption, across multiple data roles and functions. Whether you need full-time staff, contract talent, specialized training, Data-qualified graduates, or C-suite executives, Harnham Group is equipped to fulfill all your data talent requirements. Our five core services: * ATD - Rockborne – our graduate development arm – deploys expertly trained data consultants, who have gone through an intensive 12-week data training programme. After two years in the scheme, your consultant could become a * Contract / C2C / Freelance: Whether youre addressing a talent shortage, augmenting a project team, or encountering resource gaps, our specialist consultants offer bespoke interim talent solutions to address your unique challenges and drive success. * Full-Time / Direct Hiring: From early career professionals to senior management, our comprehensive services enable you to unearth outstanding data talent across various specializations, ensuring your organization thrives in the data-driven era. * Executive Search: With our dedicated executive search team and an extensive network encompassing the director to C-suite level, we assist both global corporations and ambitious startups in securing top-tier leadership talent to accomplish their goals. * GenAI, Prompt, LLM Training: Elevate your teams data expertise with our all-encompassing training programs covering essential tools and technologies such as Python, SQL, Machine Learning, LLM’s and AI. Highly bespoke, customised to your team learning requirements and budgets.
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