var name = new Array(); var title = new Array(); var info = new Array(); var name_2 = new Array(); var info_2 = new Array(); name[1] = "Kit Hunter Gordon"; title[1] = "Chairman / Managing Partner"; info[1] = "Kit has over 20 years experience of early stage investment. He is the Managing Director of The Summit Group which he raised £7m to found in 1985. Kit was responsible for growing The Summit Group into a diversified financial group encompassing vendor finance, property investment and services, structured finance and insurance - many of which commenced as start up operations. Under Kit's guidance, The Summit Group raised more than £150m of capital, and grew its total assets to more than £500m.

In 1999, Kit and his co directors took 100% control of the Group by buying out all its institutional shareholders. The Group is now focused on early stage venturing and has a portfolio of 15+ companies spanning a wide variety of sectors including software, business services, finance, medtech, energy and cleantech.

Kit himself is an active angel investor, having personally backed more than a dozen early stage companies across a number of sectors, several of which have been successfully exited via trade sales and IPOs.

Kit is the Seraphim observer for Sirigen."; name[2] = "Anthony Clarke"; title[2] = "Managing Director / Managing Partner"; info[2] = "Anthony who is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary is one of the leading figures within the European business angel community. He has been the Chairman of the British Business Angels Association (BBAA) since 2004 and the President since 2004 of European Business Angel Network (EBAN). He is therefore instrumental in the driving of Government policies - both at a national and European level - designed to encourage both entrepreneurship and business angel investing.

Besides these roles, Anthony is a main Board Director of GLE Group which includes YFM - one of the UK's largest providers of Venture Capital in the UK. He is also Managing Director of GLE Growth Capital which incorporates London Business Angels - London's oldest and largest business angel network - and London Seed Capital - the UK's first business angel co-investment fund.

Previously, Anthony spent over 20 years working for a variety of SME companies - usually as either a Finance Director or Chief Executive. Latterly, he became an active business angel, joining the boards of most of the companies he invested into. In total, Anthony has made 30 angel investments.

Anthony is the Seraphim observer for GTP, Handmade Mobile and Sharpcards."; name[3] = "Paul Thomas"; title[3] = "Managing Partner"; info[3] = "Paul has 25 years of UK venture and private equity experience, having worked in the industry since 1984. He is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Pi Capital, where he is responsible for overseeing growth capital investments of between £2m and £5m. Under Paul's guidance, Pi has made more than a dozen investments in early stage UK companies.

Prior to joining Pi Capital, Paul spent 19 years at ECI, the London based mid-market buy-out house, where he was Managing Director. During his time at ECI, the firm invested in more than 100 companies, in investments spanning the gamut of start-up, early stage, development capital, buy-ins and buy-outs in UK private companies.

He is also on the boards of the three Ventus VCT funds, which target investments in the UK renewable energy sector.

Paul is the Seraphim observer for MirriAd."; name[4] = "John May"; title[4] = "Managing Partner"; info[4] = "John has been a thought leader in the structured angel investor group movement in the United States since the early 1990's. As a founding member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) in the US, he now is Chair Emeritus of ACA which consists of 200 angel groups. He co-founded a national investor group, The Investors Circle, which still operates with over 200 members. In the 1980s and 90s he co-managed several venture funds.

As managing partner of New Vantage Group, of Vienna, VA since 1997, he has helped to organize four regional angel groups, comprising over 250 individual members, joint ventured with three other management groups. He is on the advisory committee for Verde Ventures, the venture fund of Conservational International. New Vantage, which he founded, is the managing member of over 50 early stage investments within the regional angel groups' portfolios and has pioneered the manager led Limited Liability Company format for group angel investing.

He is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School and is the author of two books on angel investing, \"Every Business Needs an Angel\"( Crown Business:2001) and \"State of the Art: American Angel Investing\" ( Darden Business Publishing:2003). He has lectured in over 20 countries, is a lead instructor for the \"Power of Angel Investing\" seminar series, and sits on a number of non-profit boards of directors. He is an active angel investor and is part of the formative team creating a World Business Angel Association.

"; name[5] = "Gerald Turner"; title[5] = "Managing Partner"; info[5] = "English born Gerald has lived and worked in the US since 1964. He has an extensive 20 year track record in transatlantic M&A during which time he's lead more than 30 transactions worth in excess of £450m. He is currently a Managing Director at FOCUS LLC - a US-based mid-market boutique investment bank, headquartered in Washington DC, that specialises in serving businesses with revenues of between $5 million and $300 million. As part of this role Gerald spends 25% of his time travelling in UK and Europe.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Gerald spent more than a decade as the co-founder and chair of Potomac Capital Group - a boutique investment bank based in Northern Virginia, which focused on transatlantic MBO/MBI transactions. Gerald also enjoyed a corporate career with two major companies: At Tarmac America, a major division of Tarmac PLC, with revenues of $750 million, he was CFO and then Executive Vice President. During his tenure he was responsible for opening the US corporate office and for completing over $150million of acquisitions and divestures. At the American Can Corporation (ACC),he enjoyed a twenty-one year career highlights of which include: as Founder and General Manager he built the Trade Access Group, a proprietary data base which is still the industry standard in the grocery business. He was part of the team which repositioned Musicland, Inc. into the largest music retailer in the US before floating it on the New York Stock Exchange; subsequently he served as Sector General Auditor on the management team which grew ACC into a major multi billion dollar financial services firm.

Gerald is also an active angel investor and has personally invested in several early stage venture funds.

"; name[6] = "Mark Boggett"; title[6] = "Managing Director"; info[6] = "Mark is one of the Managing Partners of Seraphim Capital. He works in an executive capacity as the funds' Investment Director, and has led all the investments the Fund has made to date. He is an active investor in technology across all sectors and stages serving on numerous boards throughout his venture career.

Prior to Seraphim he was the Investment Director of London Seed Capital and three further venture EIS funds. During this time, Mark built up a portfolio of 18 early stage companies across a wide range of sectors. He initially trained as an equity analyst and fund manager at Williams de Broe and Brewin Dolphin before moving into venture.

He has a degree in Accounting & Finance, an MA in Economics & Finance and a range of professional investment qualifications. Outside of the Seraphim Partnership Mark is an active member of a range of other leading business angel networks across the UK.

Mark is the Seraphim observer for Aria Networks.

"; name[7] = "James Bruegger"; title[7] = "Investment Director"; info[7] = "James joined Seraphim shortly after the Fund's launch in 2006. He has participated in all the investments the Fund has made to date.

Prior to joining Seraphim, James spent 2 ½ years working at Burlington Consultants, a boutique strategy consultancy that was acquired by Deloitte & Touche in 2005. At Burlington / Deloitte, James worked on c.20 private equity transactions, conducting commercial due diligence across a wide range of sectors and businesses spanning enterprise values of £20 million up to £2 billion. James also advised several corporate clients on a range of strategic issues.

Before joining Burlington, James was the co-founder of an award-winning start-up that sought to leverage the power of the internet to expedite the home buying process in the UK. James holds a Dean's List first class degree in History from University College London where he specialised in the history of science and medicine.

James is the Seraphim observer for Testplant."; name[8] = "Iain Darroch"; title[8] = "Investment Manager"; info[8] = "Iain joined Seraphim in August 2007 as Investment Analyst. As part of the executive team, Iain assesses all new investments for fund and has completed transactions across a wide range of sectors.

Prior to Seraphim, he was a Strategy & Operations Analyst at Deloitte Consulting. During his tenure at Deloitte, Iain worked with clients across financial services, telecoms, media and energy. Prior to Deloitte, Iain was responsible for the marketing strategy at a small UK start-up.

Iain graduated from Manchester Business School and University of British Columbia with 1st Class BSc (Hons) in International Management with American Business Studies. During his degree he focused on strategy and entrepreneurial ventures, engaged with technology start-ups in the UK and Canada and completed a dissertation on Cisco's corporate venturing strategy. He holds a CIMA foundation certificate."; name_2[1] = "Kit Hunter Gordon"; info_2[1] = "Kit has over 20 years experience of early stage investment. He is the Managing Director of The Summit Group which he raised £7m to found in 1985. Kit was responsible for growing The Summit Group into a diversified financial group encompassing vendor finance, property investment and services, structured finance and insurance - many of which commenced as start up operations. Under Kit's guidance, The Summit Group raised more than £150m of capital, and grew its total assets to more than £500m.

In 1999, Kit and his co directors took 100% control of the Group by buying out all its institutional shareholders. The Group is now focused on early stage venturing and has a portfolio of 15+ companies spanning a wide variety of sectors including software, business services, finance, medtech, energy and cleantech.

Kit himself is an active angel investor, having personally backed more than a dozen early stage companies across a number of sectors, several of which have been successfully exited via trade sales and IPOs.

Kit is the Seraphim observer for Sirigen."; name_2[2] = "Paul Thomas"; info_2[2] = "Paul has 25 years of UK venture and private equity experience, having worked in the industry since 1984. He is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Pi Capital, where he is responsible for overseeing growth capital investments of between £2m and £5m. Under Paul's guidance, Pi has made more than a dozen investments in early stage UK companies.

Prior to joining Pi Capital, Paul spent 19 years at ECI, the London based mid-market buy-out house, where he was Managing Director. During his time at ECI, the firm invested in more than 100 companies, in investments spanning the gamut of start-up, early stage, development capital, buy-ins and buy-outs in UK private companies.

He is also on the boards of the three Ventus VCT funds, which target investments in the UK renewable energy sector.

Paul is the Seraphim observer for MirriAd."; name_2[3] = "John May"; info_2[3] = "John has been a thought leader in the structured angel investor group movement in the United States since the early 1990's. As a founding member of the Angel Capital Association (ACA) in the US, he now is Chair Emeritus of ACA which consists of 200 angel groups. He co-founded a national investor group, The Investors Circle, which still operates with over 200 members. In the 1980s and 90s he co-managed several venture funds.

As managing partner of New Vantage Group, of Vienna, VA since 1997, he has helped to organize four regional angel groups, comprising over 250 individual members, joint ventured with three other management groups. He is on the advisory committee for Verde Ventures, the venture fund of Conservational International. New Vantage, which he founded, is the managing member of over 50 early stage investments within the regional angel groups' portfolios and has pioneered the manager led Limited Liability Company format for group angel investing.

He is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School and is the author of two books on angel investing, \"Every Business Needs an Angel\"( Crown Business:2001) and \"State of the Art: American Angel Investing\" ( Darden Business Publishing:2003). He has lectured in over 20 countries, is a lead instructor for the \"Power of Angel Investing\" seminar series, and sits on a number of non-profit boards of directors. He is an active angel investor and is part of the formative team creating a World Business Angel Association.

"; name_2[4] = "Gerald Turner"; info_2[4] = "English born Gerald has lived and worked in the US since 1964. He has an extensive 20 year track record in transatlantic M&A during which time he's lead more than 30 transactions worth in excess of £450m. He is currently a Managing Director at FOCUS LLC - a US-based mid-market boutique investment bank, headquartered in Washington DC, that specialises in serving businesses with revenues of between $5 million and $300 million. As part of this role Gerald spends 25% of his time travelling in UK and Europe.

Prior to joining FOCUS, Gerald spent more than a decade as the co-founder and chair of Potomac Capital Group - a boutique investment bank based in Northern Virginia, which focused on transatlantic MBO/MBI transactions. Gerald also enjoyed a corporate career with two major companies: At Tarmac America, a major division of Tarmac PLC, with revenues of $750 million, he was CFO and then Executive Vice President. During his tenure he was responsible for opening the US corporate office and for completing over $150million of acquisitions and divestures. At the American Can Corporation (ACC),he enjoyed a twenty-one year career highlights of which include: as Founder and General Manager he built the Trade Access Group, a proprietary data base which is still the industry standard in the grocery business. He was part of the team which repositioned Musicland, Inc. into the largest music retailer in the US before floating it on the New York Stock Exchange; subsequently he served as Sector General Auditor on the management team which grew ACC into a major multi billion dollar financial services firm.

Gerald is also an active angel investor and has personally invested in several early stage venture funds.

"; name_2[5] = "Anthony Clarke"; info_2[5] = "Anthony who is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Secretary is one of the leading figures within the European business angel community. He has been the Chairman of the British Business Angels Association (BBAA) since 2004 and the President since 2004 of European Business Angel Network (EBAN). He is therefore instrumental in the driving of Government policies - both at a national and European level - designed to encourage both entrepreneurship and business angel investing.

Besides these roles, Anthony is a main Board Director of GLE Group which includes YFM - one of the UK's largest providers of Venture Capital in the UK. He is also Managing Director of GLE Growth Capital which incorporates London Business Angels - London's oldest and largest business angel network - and London Seed Capital - the UK's first business angel co-investment fund.

Previously, Anthony spent over 20 years working for a variety of SME companies - usually as either a Finance Director or Chief Executive. Latterly, he became an active business angel, joining the boards of most of the companies he invested into. In total, Anthony has made 30 angel investments.

Anthony is the Seraphim observer for GTP, Handmade Mobile and Sharpcards."; name_2[6] = "Alastair Arkley"; info_2[6] = "Alastair is a proven entrepreneur having successfully established five businesses from inception. Alastair was the Founder and Executive Chairman of New Century Inns - a leading independent chain of pubs. Between 1999 and 2007, Alastair was responsible for building New Century Inns into a chain of c.50 pubs that employed more than 400 people. He sold the business in 2007 for £32.6 million, generating a return of more than 20x for the original investors.

Prior to founding New Century Inns, Alastair led the venture-back management buy-in into Century Inns - another independent chain of pubs. Over an 8 year period, as Chief Executive, Alastair oversaw the successful raising of venture, mezzanine and senior debt finance, before floating the business on the London Stock Exchange. He grew the business from 18 employees to more than 6,000 and to a market capitalisation of c.£100 million, before selling the business in 1999 for c.£150million. Alastair has also been Managing Director of two other breweries both of which had revenues of more than £100million.

Alistair is currently Non-Executive Chairman of an MBO backed by HBOS Integrated Finance. Steelite International PLC, is £60m turnover international crockery company with about half of its sales in the US and manufacturing in Stoke on Trent.

Alastair is an active business angel and is also intimately involved in the regeneration of the North East of England, for which he was awarded a CBE, as the Chair of the Northern Business Forum - the over-arching business body for the North East."; name_2[7] = "John Waddell"; info_2[7] = "John has more than 20 years M&A experience from a financial, commercial and legal perspective, as principal and adviser. In total, John has had a leading role in more than 100 completed transactions.

John is currently the Chief Executive of Archangel Informal Investment - Scotland's leading business angel syndicate. Archangel has invested in more than 60 companies. John has personally invested in more recent Archangel deals. He is very involved with the companies and sits on the boards of three of Archangels 30+ portfolio investments.

Previously John was a director of Noble Grossart - a Scottish merchant bank - and is currently on the board of N3VCT Plc and a local privately held business in Edinburgh.

John began his career as a lawyer spending 11 years at Christian Salvesen PLC, where he was appointed to the management board responsible for running this fully listed business that at the time had turnover of £700million.

"; name_2[8] = "Charles Owen"; info_2[8] = "Charles has more than 15 years experience of the SME market place, both as entrepreneur, CEO and financier. Charles is currently an advisor to Pre-X Capital , a fund manager that specialises in pre-IPO investment. He was previously a director of General Capital Group PLC a specialist finance house providing a range of mezzanine, venture, asset and property financing solutions. Charles was a leading member of the investment team responsible for all of General Capital's venture investments where he lead over 40 investments between 2004 and 2008 with an total aggregate value of £15M.

Prior to General Capital, Charles founded and ran his own boutique specialising in helping SMEs prepare themselves for investment and accessing finance. Before entering the world of small company finance, Charles also ran two successful fashion accessory businesses - Caura International which was successfully sold to a US corporation in 1998 - and Cabouchon, which grew its revenues to £12 million in just two years operation. Charles also had a brief career in the British Army where he was an Officer in The Blues & Royals."; name_2[9] = "Bryan Duffy"; info_2[9] = "Bryan is a highly successful hands-on entrepreneur. He is the founder and owner of MBI MBO Ltd which he grew from net assets from start up to £40 million in the space of 14 years. He achieved this without any external investment. MBI MBO started as a hotel company, before diversifying into early stage development investment in a range of start up companies which include the food industry, internet and software sectors. To date, MBI MBO has made a total of 12 early stage investments. MBI MBO has featured repeatedly in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100.

Previously, Bryan spent 15 years as the CEO and Chairman of Brown & Jackson PLC - a small cap public company. Bryan led the turnaround of the company, transforming it into the highest performing share amongst small cap companies on the London Stock Exchange.

Bryan also previously run his own consultancy - Duffy, Baily & Co - which provided a range of consulting services to SMEs including hands on turnaround assignments."; name_2[10] = "Bob Barnsley"; info_2[10] = "Bob is the Investment Director of the Business Angels Bureau Ltd which trades as Advantage Business Angels (ABA), a Midlands based Angel network with over 700 registered high net worth investors. Bob has over thirty years experience in UK early stage venturing and has been at the forefront of UK angel investing.

In his early working life he worked for Midland Bank now HSBC, also for First National City Bank of New York. During the 1980s he was instrumental in setting up Mercia Venture Capital which operated a BES fund which invested in over 40 early stage companies. In 1990 in conjunction with a number other finance specialists he formed Colmore Development Capital PLC which acted as a corporate finance boutique out of which grew the Business Angels Bureau Ltd.

In 2003 he set up Advantage Business Angels initially sponsored by Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency, as a consortium of all the Business Angel practitioners in the West Midlands. Since its inception ABA has raised over £17m into 120 early stage companies. In addition to his role as Investment Director of ABA he is a Non Executive Director of the Advantage Early Growth Fund and a member of its Investment Committee. Since its formation in 2004 the fund has made 81 early stage venture investments in 48 businesses, many of them alongside Angels introduced by ABA . Bob also represents Advantage Business Angels on the West Midlands Regional Finance Forum. He is a Director of the national trade body, the British Business Angels Association.";