Sponsors

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GP Bullhound

With offices in London and San Francisco, GP Bullhound is a leading investment banking firm providing advice on mergers and acquisitions and institutional capital-raising to emerging growth companies in the technology sector. The firm was established in 1999, and has completed more than 90 M&A and private placement transactions since its founding. Comprising some of the most experienced technology advisory professionals, our long track record and dedicated approach has helped us to establish a leading global position. We have strong domain expertise in the areas of internet and digital media, software and services, and cleantech and hardware, where we focus on providing pre-eminent advisory services to some of the best entrepreneurs, management teams and investors around the globe.

www.gpbullhound.com

Business XL

(Business XL is a Vitesse Media Plc publication) Vitesse Media Plc is an award-winning and AIM-listed multi-platform media business boasting an array of market-leading magazines, websites and events. The company’s focus is on the entrepreneurial sector and it has a wealth of in-depth information on AIM, collated by a team of experts. Vitesse’s websites include SmallBusiness.co.uk, GrowthBusiness.co.uk, GrowthCompany.co.uk, WhatInvestment.co.uk and MandAdeals.co.uk. Its magazine stable includes Business XL, Growth Company Investor, Information Age and What Investment. The high-profile Vitesse Events division stages the Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards, Investor AllStars, Rosenblatt New Energy Awards, Media Magnate Awards and the Growth Company Investor Show. Every month, Vitesse Media reaches a target audience of around 1.1 million CEOs, entrepreneurs, professional advisers, venture capitalists and other investors, both institutional and private.

www.businessxl.co.uk

MTI Partners

MTI is an independent venture capital fund manager with a remit to provide risk capital and management resources to British high-technology companies that are at an early stage of their development or recovery. MTI’s overriding criterion for investment is the potential of a company’s current and future business for commercial success.

Dr David Holbrook
Fountain Court, 2 Victoria Court, Victoria Street, St Albans, AL1 3TF
Tel: 01727 884 938
Fax: 01923 247783
Email: headoffice@mtifirms.com
Website: www.mtifirms.com

Event sponsors

Berenberg Bank

Berenberg is the world’s second-oldest bank, founded in 1590. Headquartered in Hamburg, we have been servicing clients for more than 420 years. We have a unique ownership structure, being family and privately owned and led by three managing partners who have unlimited liability which extends for a further five years after their retirement. Such a structure allows for long-term, entrepreneurial thinking aligned to our clients. Today, Berenberg is a modern and full-service private, investment and corporate bank with an integrated approach to private and institutional clients. Berenberg is regarded a quality leader in Germany and was awarded the Best Private Bank in Germany by World Finance in 2011. We are financially strong with a core capital ratio of 15.1 per cent and assets under management of some €26 billion. Our 1,000 employees operate in 18 locations across eight countries: Germany, France, the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, China and the US.

www.berenberg.de/en

IF Communications

IF Communications has built a reputation as one of the leading independent agencies working with start-ups and growing businesses in Europe and America as well as global public companies in mobile, technology, media and finance. We bring together the best and brightest people in the world to help our clients reach their business goals. We build relationships for our clients with multiple stakeholders through dialogue, credible sources of information and relevant experience. We build campaigns that address market and business challenges. Our team doesn’t stick to conventional ways to get the message across. We use the best mix of traditional, digital and social media to communicate messages in the way audiences want to hear them. Communications today is about facilitating conversations between groups. This requires new levels of transparency and honesty, as well as an ability to listen. We are constantly changing our approach to digital communication to ensure that we’re on the cutting edge. We know innovation. We know social and digital media. We know results.


www.if-communications.com

Martineau

Martineau is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham and London. We focus on today’s key market sectors, giving us the industry know-how that helps us deliver no-nonsense practical advice. Our focuses are investment funds, education, energy, banking, industry and manufacturing, and private wealth. Our Investment Funds Team continues to go from strength to strength, acting on all aspects of funds-related work from fund launches to private equity and venture capital transactions to restructuring and mergers, coupled with commercial and practical know-how for a one- stop specialist service.

www.martineau-uk.com

Private Equity Recruitment (PER)

Private Equity Recruitment has been a specialist in the sector since 1998. It places over 100 investment professionals a year, from analyst to partner, across the UK and continental Europe. The consultant team at Private Equity Recruitment has a deep understanding of venture capital and private equity and is composed primarily of former investors and finance professionals who understand their clients’ needs.

Gail McManus
gail.mcmanus@perecruit.com
Private Equity Recruitment, Ltd.
1st Floor, 20 York Buildings
London WC2N 6JU
+44 20 7747 7888
www.perecruit.com
http://blog.perecruit.com

The Up Group

The Up Group is a boutique executive search and networking firm focused on working with high-growth businesses, from funded start-ups through to global corporates. In addition to investors across the venture capital and private equity spectrum, The Up Group’s purpose-built global network comprises founders and entrepreneurial senior executives as well as innovative companies and teams. We have a proven track record of building first-class leadership teams and a reputation for hosting exclusive networking events to connect Europe’s leading digital, media, consumer and technology talent.

www.theupgroup.co.uk

White Bull

At White Bull, our aim is not simply to produce events. We are here to help companies succeed. Built upon the extensive knowledge and network of our founders and advisers – and in the spirit of the ‘wily beast’ that we believe lives inside all successful businesses – we offer you a community, bringing together the best and the brightest of Europe’s top technology and media leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors and visionaries. White Bull will respond to the needs and wants of the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector, while providing a forum for ongoing discussion. At White Bull Summits, we’ll hear from industry leaders on what it’s like at the top, and from the new kids on the block about what’s current. We’ll exchange ideas, network, critique, get to know each other and do business. We have assembled a team of media experts, analysts, journalists and seasoned executives to seek out companies on the cutting edge. We’ll connect them with each other, and with the resources to reach the next levels of success.

www.whitebull.com

Millnet

Millnet is the UK’s leading provider of electronic and paper document production and review for the financial and legal sectors. The range of services offered extends from digital print and distribution, scanning and e-bibles to leading-edge solutions for virtual data rooms and electronic document review. Millnet has a demonstrable track record of producing essential time-critical documents in circumstances that are generally very demanding. In the financial markets, Millnet is the financial document specialist of choice, having produced the prospectus, offer and other shareholder documentation for 200 transactions in the past year.

www.millnet.co.uk

GrowthBusiness.co.uk

GrowthBusiness.co.uk is the leading website for ambitious SMEs, professional advisers and the venture capital community. The site features a raft of information on specific growth issues, a comprehensive adviser directory, recent deals, jobs board and much more to help ambitious CEOs grow their business fast.

www.growthbusiness.co.uk

Brain Tumour Research

Brain Tumour Research represents the united campaign voice of the Brain Tumour Research group of charities. Established in 2008, the charity Brain Tumour Research was launched specifically to raise substantial funds for brain tumour research and operates as a separate entity to the member charities.

For more information please visit www.braintumourresearch.org