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Board Member
Feb 2025
Legl is a modular, all-in-one, cloud-based SaaS platform that empowers modern law firms to manage risk, compliance, and client operations more effectively. Our award-winning client lifecycle management solution streamlines client-facing business processes; from onboarding and payments to compliance while centralising critical data to provide a single source of truth.
Legl brings together all aspects of risk and compliance in one place, including KYC, KYB, AML checks, source of funds verification, and screening workflows. With a flexible and customisable platform, firms can adopt a consistent, firm-wide approach while accommodating the specific needs of individual teams and departments.
Trusted by over 400 law firms, including 40 of the UK’s Top 200, Legl helps digitise every stage of the client lifecycle. Integrated compliance tools and digital payment modules enable firms to better assess and manage client risk, improve cash flow, and unlock operational efficiencies; ultimately allowing legal professionals to focus on delivering exceptional client experiences.
We’re on a mission to transform how law firms work - simplifying operations, enhancing compliance, and helping firms thrive in an increasingly digital and regulated environment.
Board Member
May 2024
Rest Less is a digital community for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond. We offer content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
With over 40,000 posted jobs each month from age diverse employers - we know we can support, whether youre looking to find a job or post one - we can help.
As an individual we know youll find value from joining as a member (for free). As a business, do you have something to offer our members ?
Get in touch, follow us and join - theres something for everyone.
Capital at risk.
Board Member
May 2024
We are a UK-based travel tech on a mission to transform the airline industry’s outdated and inefficient compensation payments systems, ensuring less disruption, stress and uncertainty for passengers.
Issue instant flight delay, compensation and operational payments directly to your passenger and staff’s phones and wallets. Whether the whole flight is delayed or individual passengers have lost their baggage or been denied boarding, our global solution is built with airlines, for airlines.
Trusted by over 26 airlines across 200+ airports and 70+ countries, our world-first platform gives airlines the tools you need to solve the pain points of legacy compensation systems, enhance brand reputation and deliver first class passenger experiences.
Board Member
May 2024
Employer of Record and compliance for your global or remote team.
Onboard, pay, and manage employees and contractors. Best pricing. Same-day onboarding. Available in 185+ countries.
Board Member
May 2024
Flock is a UK Insurtech on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected fleet insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving.
2022 Insurance Times Awards Winners
🥇 Excellence in Underwriting
🥇 MGA Challenger of the Year
Flocks policies are backed by top underwriters, distributed by leading brokers and trusted by some of the UK’s most exciting fleets, including Virtuo, Onto and Jaguar Land Rover’s leasing arm ‘The Out’.
Offering more than the obligatory motor certificate and occasional claims payments, Flock’s connected insurance actively rewards safer driving. Specialising in self-drive hire, trades, own goods delivery, and courier.
With Flock, safer fleets pay less.
Board Member
Oct 2021
Bondaval combines world-class software engineering with powerful insurance cover to create intelligent credit risk protection. With reminders, tools and alerts tailored to each exact policy, Bondaval products helps companies to effortlessly protect their bottom line, while unlocking insights on customer payment behaviour and credit worthiness.
Got questions? Send us a Linkedin message 👋
Board Member
Aug 2021
Meet Nosso - the home for your family finances.
Bring your family's financial accounts into one secure app, making it easier than ever to track net worth, invest and reach your future goals.
When you invest, your money is at risk.
Board Member
May 2021
Pngme enables one-click data sharing, real time insights, and credit scoring for financial institutions.
At Pngme, we believe everyone deserves equal access to finance. Our platform enables this by making the process of collecting, analyzing, and using financial data by financial institutions frictionless and simple. Banks, Fintechs, and Credit Bureaus use our platform to create innovative financial products for un/underserved people.
Pngme is on a mission to give ownership of data back to people, thereby giving equal access to finance and enabling wealth creation for billions of people.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Consumers and retailers will only make that transition if it is cost effective and simple. Thats where we come in. Our technology platform enables lease-and-reuse of consumer goods, which makes them more sustainable, accessible and affordable.
Board Observer
Jan 2020
M10 Networks is solving the problems associated with transferring money internationally, so people worldwide can do business without friction.
M10’s bank-grade digital money rail enables banks to increase their financial agility and evolve a new suite of international transfer services for their corporate and retail customers. It allows banks to use digital money instead of conventional payment systems to perform international transfers, settlements and remittances instantly and at a low cost. The M10 network can be used for central bank currencies, inter-bank transfers, capital markets, treasury management, IoT, B2B, P2P transactions and more.
Unlike other payment rails, M10’s centralized, shared and hierarchical ledger complies with all banking regulations worldwide, does not use blockchain or cryptocurrency and integrates easily with a bank’s existing infrastructure.
Board Observer
Jul 2019
Sofar is a global community reimagining the art of live experiences—turning unconventional spaces into intimate showcases for local grassroots art and culture.
Born in a London flat in 2009, Sofar began as an answer to a growing problem: live music had lost its magic. It blossomed into a global movement that kept music at its heart while expanding to comedy, dating, food & drink, dance, and more—all connected by Sofar’s renowned track record for discovering rising talent. Countless mainstage performers like Billie Eilish, Jack Harlow, Chappell Roan, Leon Bridges, YEBBA, Teddy Swims, Remi Wolf, Hozier, and Lola Young have played Sofar shows early in their careers. In the past four years alone, Sofar alumni have earned 129 Grammy nominations and 21 wins.
Each Sofar show is one-of-a-kind due to the surprising pairing of live experiences with unconventional spaces. Sofar has hosted shows in caves; churches; hidden museum rooms; private living rooms, gardens, and rooftops; a ski jump tower; countless boats, ships, and catamarans; a toy shop; a wax museum; and many other delightful places.
With a network of over 10,000 venues and tens of thousands of extraordinary emerging artists, Sofar creates live performances in spaces that reflect the soul of neighborhoods and cities. Past partners include 20th Century Fox, Anheuser-Busch, Arcteryx, Delta, Focus Features, Ford, Lexus, Lyft, Pernod Ricard, Sierra Nevada, Showtime, Sony, Visa, and many others.
Board Observer
May 2019
We show the possibility of plants through flavour, cooking expertise and
everyday ease
Early Stage Investor
Mar 2018
Octopus Ventures, part of Octopus Group, is one of the largest and most active venture capital investors in the UK and Europe. We’re on a mission to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.
We back entrepreneurs ─ from the first cheque their business receives, right through to IPO. We manage £1.8bn and are investing in more than 200 businesses, focusing on the companies solving three of the world’s biggest problems: those building a sustainable planet, empowering people, and revitalising healthcare.
We know what it takes to build a successful business. We support founders through our strong teams, sector expertise and deep networks, using our people and talent to help them build a better tomorrow.
Summer Intern - Pre-seed & Seed Investment
May 2015
The Awethu Project, now Awethu Project Holdings (APH), was started in 2009 in the belief that there is exceptional, but under-developed entrepreneurial potential in emerging economies, and that with the right support and investment this talent can create profound commercial and social value.
In 2010 the Awethu Project Incubator (API) received seed capital from Discovery Holdings, and over the next 5 years went on to raise over R100M, primarily from the South African Government’s Jobs Fund. This funding was used to incubate over 2 000 micro entrepreneurs who have created over 3 000 jobs, making API’s high-touch incubation programme the largest in Africa, and one of South Africa’s lowest-cost and most scalable job creation models. API’s “next generation” incubator, currently in pilot phase, will leverage technology and innovation to make our incubation programme available all over the world.
While working with thousands of entrepreneurs in API, our team realised that too many lack access to patient equity capital. This insight spawned what is now Awethu Project Capital (APC), our dedicated SME equity fund management business. APC started in 2014 by partnering with the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) to form the sefa Awethu Youth Fund, a pioneering SME venture fund for emerging black entrepreneurs. From there, APC developed an innovative supplier development and transformation model, which, since 2016, has been invested in by some of South Africa’s top corporates, including SAB/ AB InBev, Imperial Logistics, and Impala Platinum. APC now manages R350M and 30 SME equity investments, and we aim to scale and to contribute to true, rapid transformation of the South African economy.
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2025
Board Member
Feb 2025
Legl is a modular, all-in-one, cloud-based SaaS platform that empowers modern law firms to manage risk, compliance, and client operations more effectively. Our award-winning client lifecycle management solution streamlines client-facing business processes; from onboarding and payments to compliance while centralising critical data to provide a single source of truth.
Legl brings together all aspects of risk and compliance in one place, including KYC, KYB, AML checks, source of funds verification, and screening workflows. With a flexible and customisable platform, firms can adopt a consistent, firm-wide approach while accommodating the specific needs of individual teams and departments.
Trusted by over 400 law firms, including 40 of the UK’s Top 200, Legl helps digitise every stage of the client lifecycle. Integrated compliance tools and digital payment modules enable firms to better assess and manage client risk, improve cash flow, and unlock operational efficiencies; ultimately allowing legal professionals to focus on delivering exceptional client experiences.
We’re on a mission to transform how law firms work - simplifying operations, enhancing compliance, and helping firms thrive in an increasingly digital and regulated environment.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
Rest Less is a digital community for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond. We offer content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
With over 40,000 posted jobs each month from age diverse employers - we know we can support, whether youre looking to find a job or post one - we can help.
As an individual we know youll find value from joining as a member (for free). As a business, do you have something to offer our members ?
Get in touch, follow us and join - theres something for everyone.
Capital at risk.
Board Member
May 2024
We are a UK-based travel tech on a mission to transform the airline industry’s outdated and inefficient compensation payments systems, ensuring less disruption, stress and uncertainty for passengers.
Issue instant flight delay, compensation and operational payments directly to your passenger and staff’s phones and wallets. Whether the whole flight is delayed or individual passengers have lost their baggage or been denied boarding, our global solution is built with airlines, for airlines.
Trusted by over 26 airlines across 200+ airports and 70+ countries, our world-first platform gives airlines the tools you need to solve the pain points of legacy compensation systems, enhance brand reputation and deliver first class passenger experiences.
Board Member
May 2024
Employer of Record and compliance for your global or remote team.
Onboard, pay, and manage employees and contractors. Best pricing. Same-day onboarding. Available in 185+ countries.
Board Member
May 2024
Flock is a UK Insurtech on a mission to make the world quantifiably safer with connected fleet insurance that enables and incentivises safer driving.
2022 Insurance Times Awards Winners
🥇 Excellence in Underwriting
🥇 MGA Challenger of the Year
Flocks policies are backed by top underwriters, distributed by leading brokers and trusted by some of the UK’s most exciting fleets, including Virtuo, Onto and Jaguar Land Rover’s leasing arm ‘The Out’.
Offering more than the obligatory motor certificate and occasional claims payments, Flock’s connected insurance actively rewards safer driving. Specialising in self-drive hire, trades, own goods delivery, and courier.
With Flock, safer fleets pay less.
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