Team
Innvotec is an independent company owned by its directors and staff.
The firm is non hierarchical and please feel free to contact anyone on the management team.
- Max Bascombe
- John Marsden
- Alan Mawson
- Julie Newman
- Nick Gurney-Sharpe
- Carol Van Kempen
- John Whelan
Max Bascombe
Max is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has worked within the investment and investment banking sector, both domestically and globally for the past twenty years. In that time he has worked for some of the world's leaders in the sector such as Nomura, Citigroup and Societe Generale. Max undertakes much of the firm's external liason work. Click here to contact me via our online form, or you can email me at max.bascombe@innvotec.co.uk.
John Marsden
John is a qualified Chartered Accountant who worked in industry and commerce, specifically computer hardware and entertainment, before joining the UK's embryonic venture capital industry in 1980. Starting a specialist turnaround business aimed at non-performing venture backed companies, he then progressed to active venture investing with Baillie Gifford before joining Innvotec in its infancy in 1990. Click here to contact me via our online form, or you can email me at jmarsden@innvotec.co.uk.
Alan Mawson
Alan is a founder director. A chemist by training with an MBA from the Sloan School, MIT. Prior to founding Innvotec he was a McKinsey consultant and held a number of research director positions in industry. He is a founder director of Clarendon Fund Managers and is currently Chair of the Council at the University of Salford. Click here to contact me via our online form, or you can email me at a.mawson@clarendon-fm.co.uk
Julie Newman
Julie started her venture career with a secondment to Innvotec from British Gas plc twenty years ago. She has subsequently worked with a number of venture houses but always concentrating in the young company, technology sector. Click here to contact me via our online form, or you can email me at julie.newman@innvotec.co.uk
Nick Gurney Sharpe
Nick started his career in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector working for amongst others Kraft and Proctor and Gamble. He joined the venture capital industry over twenty years ago spending much of that with 3i plc. Nick is active in sourcing new venture opportunities especially in the public sector. Click here to contact me via our online form, or you can email me at nick.gurneysharpe@innvotec.co.uk
Carol Van Kempen
Carol has been with Innvotec for ten years and is Company Secretary of Innvotec and its subsidiaries. She is also in charge of Administration, click here to contact me via our on line form, or you can email me at cvk@innvotec.co.uk
John Whelan
John handles all finances for Innvotec and its clients. He has twenty five years experience of working at board and managerial level for and with SME's in the manufacturing, IT, and plastics industry sectors and for forensics, property and media businesses in the service sector. He has handled numerous fund raising exercises. Click here to contact me via our on line form, or you can email me at j.whelan@innvotec.co.uk