Bloc Ventures
Paul has over 40 years’ experience in the Banking, Brokerage and Asset Management industries. Having started his career at the stockbroking firm Kemp Gee he subsequently became Senior Partner following the merger with Scrimgeour Vickers and Citibank. In 1988, he joined Smith New Court as CEO, and merged the business with Merrill Lynch in 1995 after which he became EVP and President of Merrill Lynch Global Markets and Investment banking. He left Merrill in 2003 to found NewSmith Capital Partners, subsequently acquired by Man Group in 2015. He is former Chairman of New River Retail plc and Sky Bet. He is currently serving as a non-executive director of S4 Capital, a new age/new era digital multi-national advertising and marketing services company. He is also senior advisor to Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Japan’s largest fiduciary and asset management company. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Economics and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Liverpool University.
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Bloc Ventures
Bloc Ventures (‘Bloc’) is an investment company providing long-term, ‘patient’ equity capital to early stage unquoted deep technology companies. Its two founding investment partners have over 50 years’ experience investing in, managing and building technology companies, including ten years running the highly successful venture investment arms of Vodafone plc and Arm Holdings. Bloc invests in companies operating in the big four categories shaping the future of technology: Big Data; Cloud; Connectivity; and Security as they are the most exciting, fastest growing and globally relevant pillars of the technology market.