Senior Principal, Towerview Ventures play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Senior Principal, Towerview Ventures role. We have selected these Senior Principal, Towerview Ventures’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.
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Nancy Fechnay
Senior Principal, Towerview Ventures @ Alumni Ventures
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Nancy was a Partner at Flight Ventures (the brainchild of Gil Penchina). Nancy launched the first AngelList syndicate in early 2015 out of London. Since then Flight has built the largest online group of investors in the world. Nancy also mentors for Techstars and the Vatican’s positive impact accelerator, Laudato Si. Nancy invests in high-growth tech companies (Angel through Series A), but is most interested in working with companies that have the potential to positively impact the world through scalable deep-technologies. Nancy has been a part of the startup investing world for seven years. Starting her career in cleantech venture, Nancy has since worked for top firms, such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, and GE Ventures before becoming a partner at Flight and leading her own angel deals in all things tech. Passionate about unleashing one’s true potential through the power of community and sharing life’s highs and lows, Nancy co-founded The Inspire Movement with the help of Hephzi Pemberton and Google in London in 2016. The Inspire Movement brings people together to share impactful stories of overcoming life’s greatest challenges in an effort to address the overwhelming problem of mental health in the 21st century. Nancy regularly speaks at events and advises companies on how to keep adapting and growing through fast-paced change. (Past speaking engagements include SLUSH, Google HQ, CognitionX, Europas, Oslo Innovation Week, GIANT Health, and Websummit.)
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Anthony Santospirito
Senior Principal @ Cinven
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Anthony is a member of the Healthcare sector team. He has been involved in a number of investments, including Premium Credit Limited. Previously, Anthony was an Associate at Morgan Stanley in the Investment Banking Division, working across a range of sectors including media, mining, financial services, retail and utilities. Anthony graduated from Oxford University with an MA in Mathematics. He joined Cinven in 2011.
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Vijay Barathan
Senior Principal, Healthcare VC @ Optum Ventures
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Before Optum Ventures, Vijay was a life science partner with Catapult’s GM&C Life Sciences Fund leading and managing investments across life sciences with a specialist focus on digital health. Vijay has invested in data driven companies targeting respiratory health, complications of diabetes, patient safety, consent and education. Prior to this, he was chief investment officer at a health care IP commercialisation company focused on digital health, diagnostics and therapeutics investments. He was previously a health care investment banker at Peel Hunt and Piper Jaffray, looking after listed health care clients as well as undertaking IPO, M&A, private placement and secondary fundraising transactions. Vijay began his career in medicine and worked as a doctor for the NHS. He qualified from Guy’s Kings and St. Thomas Medical School in London and holds a MBBS in Medicine and a B.S. in Development Neurobiology.
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Diego Prada
Senior Principal and COO @ Metric Capital Partners
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Diego focuses on the operational improvement of the companies in Metric’s portfolio. Prior to joining Metric, Diego managed the turnaround of and successful exit from the fourth largest European manufacturer of electric motors for white goods. He was also the President of Ana Holding, one of Romania’s largest business conglomerates. Before that, he was the Head of Operations at the McKinsey Investment Office, the fund that manages McKinsey & Co.’s pension plan and its partners’ contributions. Before that he was a senior engagement manager at McKinsey & Co. based in New York. Diego holds a dual degree MBA (Cum Laude)/Master in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.
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Marieke Christmann
Senior Principal @ Forestay Capital
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Marieke joined Octopus Ventures in 2018 to source, execute and manage late stage investments. She sits on a number of investee company boards and as part of the “Future of Health” team, identifies opportunities across digital health, clinical decision tools and disease prevention technologies. Prior to Octopus Ventures Marieke focused on Leveraged Finance opportunities in TMT sector for Credit Suisse and most recently led deal origination in the German speaking market for Zouk Capital. Marieke holds a Masters of Finance and Business Administration from Mannheim University, Germany and Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She speaks French, Spanish, German and English.
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Pascal Keutgens
Senior Principal @ CPP Investments
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Mark Rutland
Senior Principal Engineer @ Arm Holdings
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Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development. Read more about Arm Holdings on Crunchbase…
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Senior Principal Data Scientist @ QuantumBlack
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QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies. Read more about QuantumBlack on Crunchbase…
Andrea Bertolini
Senior Principal @ Cinven
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Andrea is a member of the Financial Services sector team and the regional team for Italy. He has been involved in a number of transactions, including Avolon, AXA Life Europe, Eurovita, Guardian Financial Services, Partnership and Viridium Group. Prior to Cinven, Andrea worked in the Investment Banking Division of Citigroup in London, advising on M&A transactions in the consumer, retail and healthcare sectors. Andrea graduated from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan with a BA in Business Administration. He joined Cinven in 2011.
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Christian Suess
Senior Principal @ TowerBrook Capital Partners
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Prior to joining TowerBrook, Christian Suess was a Director at EQT Partners in Germany. Previously, he worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company. He earned his PhD and M.Sc. in Technical Physics from the Graz University of Technology. He received his M.B.A. from INSEAD.
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John Bowman
Senior Principal @ Promontory Financial Group
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John Bowman is a Senior Principal at Promontory Financial Group, and IBM Company. He advises clients on all aspects of compliance with data-protection laws and regulations. Prior to joining Promontory, John worked at the U.K. Ministry of Justice where he was the government’s lead negotiator on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This work involved leading the U.K. delegation to the Council of the European Union’s DAPIX expert working group in Brussels, developing the government’s policy position on the GDPR, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and advocates, and regularly briefing ministers. John also represented the U.K. at the European Commission’s Article 31 Committee, which is responsible for determining the adequacy of non-EU data-protection regimes. He earlier represented the U.K. government in negotiations on reviewing The Hague Conventions on International Child Abduction and also carried out a comprehensive review of the U.K.’s claims management regulatory regime for the Ministry of Justice.
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Andy Wilkinson
Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Pivotal
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Andy is a software developer on the Spring team at Pivotal where he’s currently working on Spring Boot, Spring REST Docs, and the Spring IO Platform. When he’s not working with server-side Java, Andy enjoys the different challenges presented by developing for iOS.
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Ian Thomas
Senior Principal Engineer @ The Stars Group
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Ben Evans
Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
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Matteo Cora
Senior Principal @ Cinven
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Eugenio Preve
Senior Principal @ Cinven
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Eugenio Preve is a member of the Industrials sector team and the regional team for Italy. He has worked on a number of investments, including Amadeus, Avio, Eurovita and Medpace. Prior to joining Cinven, Eugenio spent over four years at J.P. Morgan in London and Milan working on a variety of mandates with the European TMT team and the Italian Advisory team. Eugenio has an MSc in Business Administration from the Bocconi University in Milan and also studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He joined Cinven in 2009.
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Marc Brockschmidt
Senior Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research
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Marc Brockschmidt is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Programming Principles and Tools group in Cambridge. Brockschmidt’s research focuses on topics around software developer productivity. This includes fully automatic analyses of implicitly specified properties (such as memory safety, termination or complexity) and the use of machine learning techniques to help where classical program analysis fails. Most recently, Brockschmidt also returned to some of his F/OSS roots and started studying the efficient use of build systems with colleagues in MSR and TSE. Brockschmidt obtained his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Jürgen Giesl, where he worked on termination and complexity analysis of (Java) programs. There, Brockschmidt focused on heap abstractions in the analysis of object-oriented programs.
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Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect @ Red Hat
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David Bartlett
Senior Principal Engineer Positioning @ u-blox
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