IT'S ALWAYS
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I studied the sciences at school before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. As well as tours of duty in Northern Ireland and mainland Europe, I was lucky enough to specialise in jungle warfare. This meant spending protracted periods in the rainforests of the world, and it was here that I became a committed conservationist.

After leaving the Army, I had a career in financial services, during which time I founded three of my own start-ups. I believe that this is why I have a strong feeling of empathy with the founders that we back.

My final corporate role was as the Global Head of Strategy for BGC Partners, a $3 billion global broking company. In this role, I was responsible for all M&A. I was the deal lead on a dozen transactions and the total deal size on my watch was over $1.2 billion. I was also the global troubleshooter, sorting out problems in Brazil, Canada, Turkey, the US and the UK. I specialised in the integrations of our acquisitions, ensuring synergies were optimised and key staff incentivised.

On one side I am a 3rd rate campfire guitarist and vegetarian who is a committed conservationist that wants to help create a better world for my three children and three grandchildren…and on the other side I am a soldier, a passionate rugby player (retired), an experienced, straight-talking dealmaker and hard working, competitive capitalist seeking venture-sized returns for me and for our investors. And I find that these two sides of me sit very happily together.

As a new father, I care deeply about playing my part in helping founders and start-ups who are addressing the defining global challenges of our day.

I co-founded TSP Ventures back in 2019 alongside Chris, and like Chris, I have personally invested in every portfolio company.

After graduating from the London School of Economics, I joined the Strategic Investments team at BGC Partners where I helped acquire and integrate over a dozen businesses. This in-depth operational and M&A experience, alongside successfully completing the 3 years of CFA exams, has provided me with a strong foundation in investing.

I was also directly involved with BGC’s $500m move into the insurance markets, acquiring the first businesses, hiring teams and overseeing in-house technology development.

Through investing in and advising many start-ups, I have developed a deep understanding of the early-stage ecosystem.
I’m at my happiest when I’m outdoors…in the mountains, in the woods and getting lost off the beaten track.

George joined TSP in 2020. He is a key member of the TSP deal team, leading on sourcing and due diligence.

He spent 4 years as an M&A Associate at BGC Partners, working on many M&A deals and other strategic initiatives including the build-out of BGC’s electronic business.

George is a CFA Charterholder.

Matthew is a member of the Investment Team and focuses on the scientific and technical evaluation of potential investments.

He graduated from ETH-Zurich in Physical Chemistry, and then got a PhD in Physics from the University of California, San Diego. His thesis was on the electronic structure of strongly-correlated electron systems. He went on to a post-doc at Ohio State University.

After leaving academia, Matthew started his career as an equity derivatives quant and later a hedge fund trader, focusing on weather and agriculture.

He went onto manage quant teams and the equity derivatives desk for Santander until 2019.

Belinda has enjoyed a successful and wide-ranging career in financial services which has evolved into a more advisory and strategic role, particularly with early-stage companies.

Having started her career at Merrill Lynch, Belinda moved to HSBC, initially specialising in advising major institutional clients on listed derivatives and futures strategies and thereafter moving to the UK Equity Sales Desk. She eventually set up and ran the Pan-European Equities Sales Desk focusing on US Fund Managers.

From HSBC she joined Deutsche Bank to offer Pan-European Equity trading ideas predominantly to hedge funds and other institutional investors, building an extensive European client base.

From the major banks, Belinda moved into Private Equity, advising for and on early-stage companies across agtech, medtech and clean energy.

Belinda advised and later helped to run a Canadian hydrogen company which was exited in 2023. She is also an experienced climate tech Angel.

David was the founder and CEO of Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest data and technology providers for financial markets operating in over 190 countries. He was previously founder and CEO of the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business and head of strategy at Thomson Reuters and Reuters plc. Prior to these roles, he spent 8 years as a partner at McKinsey focusing on technology and financial services clients, and was a systems developer for American Management Systems.

David Craig is Co-Chair of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Advisory Board member of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) launched by His Majesty King Charles III. He is a member of the IAPB (International Advisory Panel for Biodiversity Credits) and a Trustee of The Natural History Museum Board.

David is a private investor in natural capital, Board Advisor to Triple Private Equity and director of the Green Finance Institute PMO in London.

Graham has more than 35 years’ experience in the energy sector, with a career focused on scaling technologies that support decarbonisation, energy security and environmental sustainability.

He began his career in the UK power sector with the CEGB and later became Business Development Manager at National Power plc, then the UK’s largest power generator, where he worked on new generation and energy storage technologies. He has developed two energy storage unicorns and raised over £650 million in funding for cleantech ventures.

Graham has been CEO of several pioneering UK technology companies, including ITM Power, Sensortec, Metalysis and Antenova. At ITM Power, the first hydrogen-focused business listed on the LSE, he led the company to become a global leader in electrolysers to produce green hydrogen. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Cadent Gas, the UK’s largest gas distribution company and Non-Exec Chairman/Director of three LSE listed cleantech companies. He was recently appointed Non-Exec Chairman of Wastewater Fuels a TSP portfolio company.

He was a founding member of the UK Government’s Hydrogen Advisory Council and a Board Member of RenewableUK. He is a mentor at the IoD and the Kings Trust, Honorary Professor at Brunel University and the University of Bristol, and Strategic Advisory Board Member of The Cabot Institute for the Environment. In 2022, he was awarded the Lifetime Fellowship Award by the Bessemer Society. Graham has a PhD in Physics, an MBA and is a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET).