Management

Senior Management Team

Nick Gregg

Chief Executive Officer

Nick started his career with US strategy consulting firm Monitor Company in Europe and Asia, focusing on clients in the telecoms and media sectors.

From 1996 Nick then spent six years in technology equity research. He firstly established the emerging technology team at HSBC Securities and subsequently ran European software and Internet coverage at Wall Street firm Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse), including managing several high-profile Nasdaq and LSE IPOs. Following DLJ.s acquisition he led a number of venture capital investments in early-stage software companies and formally launched MarketClusters in 2004.

Nick also co-founded Milkround Online in 1996. Milkround quickly became the leading UK online graduate recruitment company and was sold in October 2006 to News Corporation. Nick remains an active seed investor in several successful technology and media companies.

He holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University.

 

Jeremy Phillips

Chief Operating Officer

Jeremy spent four years from 1993 as a strategy consultant with Accenture, advising on the effective adoption of new communications and distribution technologies.

Jeremy then worked for The Boots Company plc for three years as Business Development Manager, developing new direct-to-consumer offers and partnerships in retail financial services and co-founding Boots Internet Ventures.

Jeremy next became COO and Finance Director of First Property Group plc, an AIM-listed provider of market intelligence and financial solutions to the commercial property sector, building the company up over three years from startup to sustainable profitability with multi-£m turnover, through organic growth and multiple acquisitions, before co-founding MarketClusters.

Jeremy holds an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

 

Non-Executive Directors

Manoj Badale

Non-Executive Director

Manoj Badale is the co-founder and managing partner of Blenheim Chalcot, an early stage investment group that actively manages a portfolio of fast growth ventures.

Typically, these businesses are innovative leaders, creating a position based on a market or regulatory discontinuity in technology, financial services or media. Manoj was a co-founder of netdecisions group, originally an internet services business, but now a broader based IT services and outsourcing business, which trades as Agilisys. He also co-founded Fluency (sold to venture capitalists in 2003), Eviivo, and Steeltrace (sold to Compuware in 2004), and the Rights Company (sold to Warner Music in 2005).

Currently, he chairs TDX ( financial services), and Emerging Media who also own the Rajasthan Royals, the winners of the Indian Premier League 2008. He is also a non-executive director of Agilisys, BMS, Corporate Pay, and StrategyEye, in all of which Blenheim Chalcot holds a significant equity stake.

Manoj was formerly a partner at Monitor Company, where he spent significant time in the UK, Europe and India. Manoj now divides his time between India and UK, where most of the group's businesses are located. Manoj is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.

 

Jay Patel

Non-Executive Director

Jay is a director of NewMediaSPARK plc and was part of its founding team in 1999.

SPARK is an early stage technology investment company managing $100m of assets. Jay is currently focused on opportunities in the mobile sector and India. He has previously held executive positions at UBS Warburg and BSkyB. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and holds degrees from INSEAD and the London School of Economics.