Gresham House Income & Growth VCT plc

Date of Appointment: 12 February 2020

Maurice has extensive experience as a Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director with a proven track record in entrepreneurial, growth and established businesses across a wide range of companies. After a successful 16-year corporate career at Marks and Spencer plc, he left his role as Executive Director on the Main Board to found Amery Capital with a principal focus on investment and advisory work in digital, retail and consumer businesses. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School with High Distinction. His current appointments include Chairman of ME+EM and Oliver Sweeney, Independent Director at Hakim Group and Executive Chairman at Amery Capital Limited.

Qualifications: BA Econ (Hons) MBA Harvard

Date of Appointment: 26 July 2024

Graham is an investment and financial services professional with over 20 years’ experience in the private equity industry. A chartered accountant, Graham was one of the founding partners of SL Capital Partners LLP, (formerly Standard Life Investments (Private Equity) Ltd) where he was a Partner and Board Member until 2010. During his 13 years at SL Capital, he was one of the managers of Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc and was a member of the advisory boards to a number of leading private equity fund managers. In 2013, Graham co- founded TopQ Software Ltd, a technology company which develops software for the private equity industry. TopQ Software was acquired by eVestment Inc (now part of NASDAQ Inc) in 2015, where until early 2018, Graham was a Director of their private markets data and analytics business. Graham was Chair of Octopus VCT 4 plc until 2018 and is currently a Non -Executive Director of Diaceutics plc, Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust plc, Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and Chair of Datactics Ltd.

Date of appointment: 12 November 2019.

Justin is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive financial, investing and private equity experience across a number of sectors. Between 1995 and 2010 he worked for CVC Capital Partners, Hermes Private Equity and Bridgepoint Development Capital leading growth equity and private equity buyout transactions and has subsequently made a number of angel investments in technology businesses. Justin has served on the board of a number of private companies as Non-Executive director and is currently Non-Executive Director at School Explained Limited. He is also a Non-Executive Director on the board of Hargreave Hale AIM VCT plc and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Justin is the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Investment Committee of the Company.

Qualifications: BSc, ACA

Date of Appointment: 07 November 2022

Nemone’s background is in the equity capital markets sector of the City of London, including as Finance Director on the main board of a stock exchange. She has an MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. Having begun her career in corporate finance at KPMG and HSBC, Nemone is currently Chair of Shepherds Friendly Society, Chair of Audit and Risk at Good Energy Group plc, and Non-Executive Director of Hinckley & Rugby Building Society, where she also chairs the Nominations Committee. Nemone is the Chair of the Audit Committee.

Qualifications: MA, MBA, Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment

Trevor joined Gresham House in 2021 as part of the Mobeus VCTs acquisition. For over 25 years, he has invested in fast-growing businesses at the series A stage and beyond.

Prior roles include at Barclays, RBS, 3i and Beringea. Previous investments and Board positions include Paragon Software, Mondus.com, Cambridge Industries, Southnews plc, Achilles Group, MyOptique, Fjordnet, ILG Digital, Celebrus Technologies, Big Data Partnership, and Preservica.

Trevor holds an MBA from Exeter University, is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Clive joined Gresham House in 2021 as part of the Mobeus VCTs acquisition.  He is an investment management specialist with experience across a wide variety of sectors and stages of company development. He has worked in the private equity industry since 1995 making investments including TeleCity and Kerridge Commercial Systems.  He has been working in the VCT industry since 2008 with previous experience including running his own business and as a Director of NVM Private Equity, Catapult Venture Managers and 3i plc.

Having specialised in portfolio management, Clive has acted as non-executive director and Chairman of a wide range of private equity backed businesses such as Virgin Wines, Entanet and Equip Outdoor Technologies. He now heads VCT portfolio management across the Gresham House VCT stable, sits on the Investment Committee and has responsibility for the portfolio valuations processes.

Clive holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics & Electronics from Durham University, a DipM from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and an MBA from the University of Warwick.

Greg joined the Mobeus VCT team in 2013. He sources and executes investments into fast-growing businesses and is our resident consumer expert. He combines a natural flair for understanding the drivers of brand value, insight into wider market dynamics and strong corporate finance experience. Previous investments and Board positions include Virgin Wines, MPB, Rotageek and Buster + Punch.

Greg joined Mobeus from Piper Private Equity and previously worked at PwC in Corporate Finance.

He holds a BA/ ACC in Business Studies & Accounting from the University of Edinburgh and is a Chartered Accountant (ICAS).

Rohit focusses on venture capital investments at late Seed / Series A stages and beyond with a specific focus on Fintech, SaaS, and AI-first technology companies. Previous investments include Adsum Technologies, Refyne Technologies, Honest Bank, WealthKernel, Penfold Pensions, and many others. He has a global network having worked / invested in the UK, EU, India, ME and SEA.

Before Gresham, Rohit was an Investment Partner at Digital Horizon VC and led their fintech investments globally, and before that spent 10+ years at Barclays Bank London in various roles including as the Lead for the Barclays VC unit. He has significant operational, commercial and leadership experience having worked with start-ups in Commercial roles and built and launched the wealth management and private banking mobile app for Barclays. He was a Management Consultant with EY and started his career as a Software Engineer with Infosys Technologies.

Rohit is passionate about diversity causes and has held various NED roles with start-ups and education institutions including being on the Global Alumni Board of Manchester Business School.

Rohit has an MBA (Director’s List and AT Kearney Scholar) from Manchester Business School, UK, and a B.Eng. (Honour’s) from Agra University, India.

Marieke joined Gresham House in February 2025 as Portfolio Director.

Marieke draws on over 15 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Gresham House Ventures, she was a senior investor and investment committee member at Forestay, a pan-European venture capital fund. She led a team focused on enterprise SaaS startups across the UK and Europe and served on the boards of four portfolio companies. Previously, she led the growth investment team at Octopus Ventures, serving on nine boards and managing new and follow-on investments as well as exits. She began her career in leveraged finance at NIBC (Frankfurt) and Credit Suisse (London).

Marieke has invested in and sat on the board of companies between £1m and £100m revenues and has deep experience supporting founders and management from first investment to exit.

She holds an MBA from Mannheim University. She is a mentor with Level20 and GAIN and serves as a Governor at West Wimbledon Primary School. Originally from Germany, she has lived in Spain and Mexico before moving to the UK in 2011.

 Outside of work, Marieke enjoys time with her family, yoga, snowboarding and the theatre.

Jens joined Gresham House in August 2025 as Head of Portfolio, Private Equity.

With over 20 years of experience of working with technology companies across Europe, Jens joins Gresham House from Frog Capital, where he served as a Senior Partner, overseeing the investment operations.

Jens has sat on boards of companies active in the payment sector, insurance, health care, education technology and property sector. Through this work as a non-executive, Jens grew his passion for working with and supporting growth businesses, and for sharing the learnings with other scaling companies.

“Having sat on nine boards in three countries, I have come to realise that growth companies share many challenges. Leading a portfolio group that can help our companies better address these challenges is a very exciting privilege”.

Earlier in his career of more than 20 years, Jens gained experience at Pioneer Point Partners, Fidelity Equity Partners and Apax. Jens started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Jens holds an MBA Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and Masters Degree in Theoretical Physics from Durham University.

Tania joined Gresham House in November 2018 having been at Livingbridge for 13 years. She has worked on the Baronsmead VCTs since she joined, progressing from administration assistant to Finance Manager in 2011 and qualifying as a Chartered Management Accountant in 2012 while at Livingbridge.

Tania previously worked at a Chartered Accountancy practice in New Zealand for eight years where she began her accounting training. She holds a BBS in Accounting from the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand.

James joined Gresham House in December 2019 and works as part of our growth equity division, Gresham House Ventures.

Prior to this he spent five years at PwC, latterly working in the financial due diligence team.

James is a Chartered Accountant and read Economics and Accounting at Edinburgh University.

Ed brings nearly 20 years’ experience of helping SMEs to create and realise shareholder value to his role. He has been working with Mobeus VCT management teams since 2017 to help them achieve their ambitions for growth and has overseen several notable exits in that time, including Automated Systems Group, Access-IS and Auction Technology Group. He also led the successful IPO of Virgin Wines in 2021.

Ed represents the Mobeus VCTs directly on the Board of several businesses, including Virgin Wines, RotaGeek and Vivacity Labs. His previous roles include CIO at Catapult Ventures in Assurance and Business Recovery Services at PwC. Ed was named one of Real Deals’ Future 40 Investment Leaders in April 2021.

He holds a BA (Hons) in Ancient History from the University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW).