Executive Profile
Technology investment and strategic-growth executive with 18+ years spanning technology, corporate finance, private capital and investment banking. Career includes seven years inside the technology industry and 12 years in technology investment banking, combining technology operating experience, investment underwriting, cross-border transaction execution and board-level strategy and value creation.
Experience spans venture and growth capital, M&A, acquisition financing, corporate development and strategic advisory across Europe, the United States and Asia. Particular strength in situations where technology business-model quality, capital structure and strategic positioning must be assessed together to inform investment, financing and value-creation decisions.
Core Capabilities
Investment Evaluation & Underwriting: Market Sizing & Competitive Analysis • Commercial & Financial Diligence • Financial Modelling & Valuation • Scenario, Sensitivity & Downside Analysis • Investment Thesis Development & IC Materials
Strategic Growth & Value Creation: Business-Model Innovation & Refinement • Turnaround & Strategic Repositioning • Growth Planning • Portfolio Rationalisation • Capital Allocation • Exit Readiness
Transactions & Capital Formation: M&A • Venture & Growth Capital • Venture Debt & Acquisition Finance • Transaction Structuring & Negotiation
Sector Expertise: Software • Data & Cybersecurity • Industrial Technology & IoT • Deep Tech • Energy-Transition Technology • Fintech • Mobility • Digital Consumer & Technology-Enabled Businesses
Leadership & Platform Building: Built business units, sector franchises and teams from scratch • Go-to-market and origination capability • Board and C-suite engagement • Team leadership, hiring and mentoring
Selected Investment & Strategic Growth Highlights
- Investment Track Record — evaluated 100+ technology investment and financing opportunities through strategic assessment, outside-in market and competitive analysis, and underwriting; developed investment cases and recommendations for senior decision-makers and committees.
- Transaction Track Record — completed 50+ M&A and capital-raising transactions involving software, cybersecurity, IoT, deep tech and data-analytics businesses.
- Strategic Growth & Value Creation — advised boards and management teams on business-model refinement, turnaround, resource allocation, growth planning and exit readiness.
- Sector Strategy & Origination — translated thematic research into sector theses and proprietary opportunities, completing 15+ sector mappings and building a £20m live opportunity pipeline.
- Platform & Leadership — built technology franchises and teams from scratch, including an eight-person TMT practice; led deal teams of up to five and developed 30+ active financial-sponsor relationships.
Professional Experience
Anchorpoint AdvisoryApr 2025 – Present
Founder & Managing DirectorLondon / International
Founded an independent technology investment and strategic-growth advisory firm serving private investors, funds, family offices, founders and boards across Europe and other international markets. The mandate spans investment evaluation, fund strategy, capital formation, strategic growth and differentiated sector-thesis development.
Current Focus
- Fund Strategy & Capital Formation — Developed an institutionally coherent proposition for a UK-based vehicle spanning venture, growth and private credit, covering portfolio construction, deployment pace, ticket sizing, reserves, target returns, fund economics, LP segmentation and fundraising positioning.
- Investment Evaluation — Evaluate direct technology and deep-tech opportunities for private investors across market attractiveness, competitive positioning, business-model quality, recurring-revenue dynamics, capital requirements, valuation and downside risk; translate the findings into clear investment recommendations.
- Strategic Repositioning & Board Value Creation — Advised management of a technology-enabled analytics and advisory business on exiting a structurally challenged segment, reallocating resources toward higher-value transaction and valuation services, and strengthening commercial execution. The turnaround programme targets approximately 20–25% revenue improvement.
- Platform & Sector Thesis — Built a lean, AI-enabled research and workflow model combining reusable institutional knowledge, specialist workflows and senior judgement; developed thematic perspectives across cybersecurity, AI / deep tech, IoT and industrial technology to support target identification and proprietary opportunity development.
Santander Corporate & Investment BankingMar 2023 – Mar 2025
Senior Vice President, Technology Investment BankingLondon, UK
Recruited as the third member of Santander’s newly formed Technology Investment Banking team to build sector origination and execution capabilities across venture, growth and acquisition financing. Established the bank’s first dedicated cybersecurity, IoT and industrial-software coverage, with a remit spanning Europe, the United States, Latin America and Asia.
- Investment Evaluation & Underwriting — Challenged business plans, valuation assumptions and financing structures across venture / growth and acquisition-finance situations; developed base / upside / downside cases and sensitivity analyses, and translated the analysis into risk-adjusted recommendations for internal credit / deal committees and sponsor-facing teams.
- Sector Platform & Commercial Development — Established SCIB’s first dedicated coverage of cybersecurity, IoT and industrial software. Combined thematic research, market sizing, competitive analysis, C-suite relationship development and sponsor coverage to build a £20m live opportunity pipeline and expand active financial-sponsor coverage to 30+ firms.
- Transaction Leadership — Sourced seven technology transactions and executed five financings, coordinating founders, management teams, lenders, advisers and internal stakeholders from diligence and structuring through credit / deal approval, negotiation and closing.
- Financing Structuring & Risk — Assessed recurring-revenue quality, growth durability, cash conversion, liquidity, leverage and debt-service capacity; structured investment terms and downside protection where required to improve credit quality while preserving return potential.
Selected Transactions & Financings
Darktrace — $5.3bn take-private • Linxens — sale to TowerBrook • Univers — $50m venture / growth debt • Netwrix — $65m acquisition financing • Austin GIS — $30m growth capital
Saxenhammer & CoFeb 2020 – Jan 2023
Director, Technology Investment BankingLondon, UK
Headhunted to establish the firm’s mid-market TMT investment-banking practice for European growth companies. Led franchise strategy, origination and execution across M&A, venture / growth capital and strategic advisory while building the operating platform and team from scratch.
- Built the TMT Advisory Platform — Defined sector strategy, market positioning and go-to-market strategy; established transaction workflows and built an eight-person multicultural team. The platform completed 13 technology transactions, while standardised execution processes contributed to an approximately 30% improvement in transaction completion rates.
- Buy-Side Advisory & Investment Evaluation — Translated corporate-development objectives into investment theses, screening criteria and target priorities for European IoT acquisitions; led market sizing, competitive analysis, commercial diligence, business-model assessment and valuation, and presented recommendations to investment committees.
- Transaction Structuring & Negotiation — Negotiated valuation, earn-outs and selected LOI / SPA terms; resolved accounting and closing-mechanism issues and supported deal scoping and engagement negotiations.
- Strategic Growth & Business-Model Refinement — Advised management teams on recurring-revenue transition, growth planning, strategic positioning and exit readiness, using business-model and financial analysis to shape M&A, capital-raising and strategic alternatives.
- Client & Franchise Development — Built senior relationships with founders, C-suite executives and boards; presented to 20+ companies in two years and used research-led origination and completed transactions to generate repeat mandates and new opportunities.
Selected Transactions & Financings
Cognitec — sell-side M&A • Leadec — buy-side M&A • SkyFive — venture investment • Voltaware — venture syndication • Wegatech — growth capital • QiO — dual-track financing
Bryan Garnier & CoJan 2014 – Jan 2020
Vice President, Technology Investment BankingMunich, Germany
Joined from the technology industry to bring technical and corporate expertise into the TMT investment-banking team; promoted successively from Analyst through Associate and Senior Associate to Vice President. Advised technology and smart-industry companies across Europe, the United States and Asia, completing 25+ transactions with aggregate value of approximately €600m across M&A, venture and growth capital.
- Smart Industries Franchise — Co-founded and scaled the Smart Industries practice with a Partner, developing a research-led origination model that produced 12 transactions across cleantech, IoT and smart mobility.
- Origination Platform — Designed and implemented a standardised opportunity-prioritisation and tracking system, increasing high-priority deal generation by approximately 50% and strengthening conversion of sector themes into actionable mandates. Built an independent origination network and began sourcing mandates directly.
- Strategic Growth & Investment Themes — Completed 15+ sector mappings and authored / co-authored research across IoT, big data, robotics, SaaS valuation, autonomous driving and digitalisation of energy; used market, competitive and business-model analysis to identify targets and advise management teams on positioning, growth plans, capital structures and merger scenarios. Reviewed clients’ strategic objectives, business plans and operating plans to shape transaction strategy.
- Venture Financing — Supported the structuring and syndication of Series A and Series B venture financings and investor roadshows across the United States, Europe and Asia, including investor meetings and M&A site visits.
- Leadership & Execution — Led cross-border deal teams of up to five across multiple concurrent mandates and coached 15+ junior bankers, strengthening analytical rigour and execution quality across valuation, diligence, modelling and transaction delivery.
Selected Transactions & Financings
Exasol — €50m growth capital / pre-IPO secondaries • tado° — two private placements totalling ~€95m • Dimelo — €35m sale to RingCentral • REstore — €70m sale to Centrica • Intersec — €30m private placement
Earlier CareerSep 2006 – Feb 2013
University of St. Gallen, Institute of Technology Management | Research Assistant – Business Model InnovationSwitzerland | 2012–2013
Researched 800+ European technology companies under Prof. Oliver Gassmann and Dr. Karolin Frankenberger, applying matched-pair and survival analysis to business-model performance. Contributed to the research stream underpinning St. Gallen’s Business Model Navigator and to “Revolutionizing the Business Model” (Springer, 2013), establishing an analytical foundation in business-model innovation.
Cisco Systems | Corporate Finance AnalystParis, France | 2010–2012
Supported planning and performance management across approximately €8bn of European operations and contributed to the integration of Cisco’s approximately €2.8bn Tandberg acquisition, including synergy tracking, channel alignment and post-acquisition performance analysis.
Tata Consultancy Services | Business Consultant / Systems EngineerIndia | 2006–2008
Started in technology consulting and software delivery for global clients including Apple, Novartis and Airbus, building an early foundation in enterprise architecture, CRM, data platforms and digital transformation.
Board & Investment Engagements
- Non-Executive Director & Board Adviser — Advise technology and technology-enabled businesses on strategic growth, business-model decisions, capital allocation and execution priorities.
- Private Capital & Venture Roles — Contribute to investment strategy, opportunity evaluation, underwriting, portfolio construction and capital formation for growth-stage and structured-capital strategies.
- Investment Jury & Startup Selection — Evaluate AI and technology companies for European investor programmes, assessing market attractiveness, technology differentiation, business models, scalability, competitive positioning and investment potential alongside venture investors.
Education
Executive MBA (First Class)University of Oxford2025
Postgraduate Studies, Banking & FinanceUniversity of St. GallenSwitzerland
MA International Business (Distinction)Grenoble École de ManagementFrance
B.E. Mechanical Engineering (First Class)Cochin University of Science & TechnologyIndia
Selected Executive Education
Wealth ManagementUniversity of Oxford2026
Oxford Scenarios ProgrammeUniversity of Oxford2025
AI in MediaUniversity of Oxford2024
Healthcare Policy, FinanceYale University2024
Executive Program in Venture CapitalUC Berkeley2023
Additional
LANGUAGES English, Hindi | French (Working proficiency) | German (Novice)
PUBLICATION & WRITING Investment research and writing on technology, market structure, private capital and capital cycles
ACTIVITIES Venture building | Startup selection committees: TechTour NRW and Arctic15 (Finland) | European Super Angels Club
INTERESTS Blogging, hiking, travelling