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Neeta Patel - senior associate Alain Gavin - managing partner Prof. Robert Gavin - associate

Tel: +44 75 9066 6022
Email: neeta@psionpartners.com


Experienced senior executive with hands on experience spanning Financial Services, Media & Publishing, Education, Art's and the Creative Industries
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works on a range of the company's projects - from managing strategic due diligence projects to sourcing proprietary deal flow for High Net Worth clients and Family Offices
  • Has held senior positions at Thomson Financial (Reuters), Legal & General PLC, the British Council
  • General manager of FT.com, Europe's Premier business news portal
  • CEO of a personal finance start-up: launched 1st consumer personal finance website in Europe in 1995
  • MSc/MBA London Business School Sloan programme
  • Winner of Price Water House Cooper's prize in 2009 for consultancy assignment in China
  • MBA Marketing Cass Business School Sloan programme
  • MA in Chemistry from Oxford University

Tel: +44 78 3012 9710
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Email: alain@psionpartners.com


Currently serving on the advisory panel of a versatile investment fund, Alain has over 20 years of leadership and operational business experience in diverse organisations
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responsible for sourcing proprietary deal flow for High Net Worth individuals, family offices and Private Equity houses, evaluating strategic due diligence and executing value extraction strategies in respect of portfolio companies e.g. RCapital, Balmoral Capital, WHEB Partners, Beers & Partners EIS
  • Over 10 years investment / portfolio management for companies in innovative technology sectors
  • Investment Director at Pall Mall Partners Ltd.
  • MD International Consulting : Strategic planning, analysis and capital growth acquisition across a diverse array of industries
  • MSc/MBA London Business School Sloan programme
  • VP Corporate Development & Value Based Management Schott AG Germany
  • CEO Internet start-up Genee IT Holding GmbH Berlin
  • Senior VP Daimler Chryler Rail Systems Ltd UK
  • Project manager then Director Siemens AG (Transportation Systems Group), Germany/Japan
  • Chartered Engineer with a first degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (BENG Hons)

Tel: +44 78 6871 0788
Email: robert@psionpartners.com


Seasoned Academic Leader with 30+ years of experience in developing academic partnerships with Industry to assist regional development and local regeneration
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does research for the projects and helps in the planning and production of company documentation; uses his network to find openings for portfolio companies
  • Awarded CBE in 1994 in recognition of services to Higher Education in Northern Ireland
  • Chairman of Foyle Development Organisation 1991-2005(Derry City Council's agency for promoting industrial and commercial development)
  • Pro- Vice Chancellor for Research at Ulster University, 1988 - 1992
  • Provost of Magee College, Londonderry - University of Ulster: planned and implemented a tenfold expansion of the college
  • 5yrs Dean of Arts University of Ulster
  • 9yrs growing and managing academic institutions in Nigeria (Zaria & Ilorin)
  • 15 years university teaching in Cambridge, London & in Ibadan Nigeria
  • MA and PHD from Cambridge University
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The team combines transactional, strategic, client-facing operational P&L, investment/divestment and entrepreneurial experience

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The team interacts on a daily basis with a valuable network of well placed people across a variety of industry settings to achieve faster, more effective and well qualified action as well as generate a pipeline of proprietary deal flow origination.

Together we have built a strong network of 300+ family office, HNW and PE investors through active engagement in deal origination and identification of investment opportunities suited to their interests.

This investment & transaction experience has been combined with operational, strategic management consultancy and strategic corporate oversight of portfolio companies.

Worked on 80+ deals including sell-side and buy-side equity investments, equity funding (follow-ons), convertibles, valuations, turnarounds, mergers and distressed companies. 7 issued in investments of over €3.8m from a pool of HNWs (High Net Worths) with net assets totalling ca. €1.1 billion.

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