Nick founded and is a Director of Cormorant.  He has extensive experience as both merchant / investment banker and also as an active technology entrepreneur and principal investor.  Since 1998, Nick has acted as Chairman / Director / Adviser for a number of fast growing ambitious companies, both public and private.  His particular expertise is in Fintech, Media, Mobility, SaaS and in deploying disruptive technologies.  Nick has a proven track record in growing businesses both organically and by acquisition and also of successful exits. He has extensive cross border experience:  UK / Europe, Asia and North America, particularly in Media and Technology. 

He was Founder and Chairman of www.paybyphone.com which, by the time of its trade sale to Paypoint plc, had 1.6 million registered users and was executing 900,000 transactions a month.

He was a corporate financier undertaking complex reorganisations with Robert Fleming / Jardine Fleming in London and Hong Kong, and then Vice President and Head of JP Morgan’s Asian Equity Capital Markets business: IPO-ing and capital raising for numerous privatisations and large corporates on the Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York / NASDAQ stock exchanges. Subsequently he was Director and Head of Asia Pacific Technology, Media & Telecoms Corporate Finance Advisory for Wheelock NatWest and Managing Director, Investment Banking for Nikko Europe. In both these latter roles he was involved in numerous complex cross border corporate reorganisations, mergers & acquisitions and capital raisings.

After service as an officer in the British Army he graduated with a 2:1 (Hons) from Bristol University, a postgraduate diploma in law from City University, London and qualified as a barrister.

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Tanya has expertise in strategy, marketing and communications.  Her experience and career interests include healthcare, retail, horticulture, the environment and leisure industries.

For six years she was a Main Board Trustee of Kew Gardens, a £50m annual turnover Non Departmental Public Body, with a particular focus on strategy, resource allocation and commercial development.  She also served as a Director and then Chairman of Kew Enterprises, encompassing retailing, catering, licensing and events.

Prior to that Tanya was Head of Development and Marketing, as well as periods as Acting Director, at The Natural History Museum, with 1.8m paying customers each year.  She was closely involved in the restructuring of the museum and fundraising arm into one cohesive structure and strengthening the Museum’s brand.

Her earlier career included investing a specialist global equity health fund for Lombard Odier, a private Swiss Bank, focused on the ageing population and AIDS and viral disease.  During this period, she was also involved in two biotechnology start-ups.

Tanya originally studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and has an MBA from Said Business School, University of Oxford.  She began her working career on the graduate training scheme at Shell.

After National Service as an officer in the Oxford & Bucks (later a Captain in the London Rifle Brigade) and Oxford University (Magdalen), Peter Barton spent his executive career in the City, first as a corporate lawyer at Travers Smith and then as an investment banker, with nine years at Lehman Brothers followed by four at Robert Fleming & Co, which he joined as Chief Operating Officer.

For the last seventeen years he has held various non-executive positions, including Chairman of Howard de Walden Estates Ltd, Chairman of Alliance & Leicester plc and Chairman of The Guinness Partnership.

He is currently a director of Jupiter US Smaller Companies PLC and easyGroup Holdings Ltd. His pro bono appointments have included membership of the Oxford University Audit & Scrutiny Committee and the Royal Commission for the 1851 Exhibition Finance Committee and the Chairmanship of the Leonard Ingrams Foundation.

He is currently a trustee of the Stelios Philanthropic Foundations in Monaco and the UK. He was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2000, is a Deputy Lieutenant (retired) of Greater London and President of his local Branch of The Royal British Legion.

Camilla is an experienced Executive Assistant who has worked for a broad spectrum of companies and brings strong organisational skills to the team.

She started her secretarial career at the BBC, moving from there to the Foreign Office and on to TOTAL Oil GB Ltd. More recently she has worked as a Project Manager within the marketing and events arena.

A qualified accountant with over 25 years’ experience. He was previously at Trafalgar House plc where he was Assistant to the Group CEO for Acquisitions and Investments.

More recently he has been Finance Director to three listed PLCs, involved in two IPOs as well as numerous mergers & acquisitions and fund raising exercises.