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Our team

Our team is made up of experienced operators and investors, with a background in running software businesses.

We also get on well, which we think is pretty important!

Key people you’ll get to know

Gavin Cockerill

CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. He was appointed Group CEO in May 2023.

Iain Brown

CFO

Iain is a board director. He leads our finances. Driving process and systems that help provide performance visibility to our family of businesses. Iain joined the Group in October 2019. He was appointed CFO in September 2023.

Richard Lightfoot

Director & Company Secretary

Richard is a board director. He supports the board and our M&A processes. He’s the Software Circle engine room. Richard was appointed Company Secretary in October 2015 and joined the Board in January 2018.

Roman Rothenberg

M&A Director

Roman leads our M&A process. Finding magnificent software businesses, handholding through to deal completion.

Shira Ghiat

Corporate Development Executive

Shira supports the M&A process. Helping find and evaluate software business that match our criteria.

Key people you’ll get to know

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. He was appointed Group CEO in May 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Iain is a board director. He leads our finances. Driving process and systems that help provide performance visibility to our family of businesses. Iain joined the Group in October 2019. He was appointed CFO in September 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. Was appointed Acting CEO in May 2022 and Group CEO in May 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. Was appointed Acting CEO in May 2022 and Group CEO in May 2023.

Gavin Cockerill

Group CEO

Gavin is a board director. He leads the group and is hands-on once we find an interesting software business, helping to onboard and grow them once they join the Group. Gavin joined the Board in January 2018. Was appointed Acting CEO in May 2022 and Group CEO in May 2023.

Our non-executive team

Jan Mohr

Chairman

Jan is based in Hamburg, Germany and is Managing Director of the advisory firm JMX Capital GmbH and CEO of Chapters Group AG. He previously worked with Investmentaktiengesellschaft fuer langfristige Investoren TGV, Hauck & Aufhaeuser and McKinsey & Company.

Jan graduated from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and earned a Master’s in Finance at Stockholm School of Economics as a German National Merit Scholar.

Jan was appointed to the Board in March 2016.

Conrad Bona

Non-executive Director

Conrad is a business consultant, investor and entrepreneur who started his career as a banking and finance lawyer and has worked in Toronto, London and Tokyo. He has a degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario, law degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of New Brunswick and qualified to practice as a lawyer in multiple jurisdictions. No longer practising law, Conrad now advises companies on a wide range of commercial, financial and business matters. He is currently a non-executive director of System1 Group Plc. He has both Canadian and British citizenship.

Conrad was appointed to the Board in October 2015.

Simon Barrell

Non-Executive Director

Simon qualified as a chartered accountant in 1983 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered accountants in England and Wales. He’s held various posts as Finance Director and has experience across multiple industries working in both the public and private sectors. He has also held numerous non-executive positions for a number of public companies and continues to act as an adviser to listed and non-listed companies. He is currently a non-executive director of SRT Marine Systems plc.

Simon joined the Group in June 2018 as Interim Finance Director and was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in January 2020.

Matthias Riechert

Non-Executive Director

Matthias is a founder and Director of P&R Investment Management Limited (“P&R”), an investment advisory firm. Previously, Matthias worked in sales and trading at Citigroup Global Markets for nine years.

He has an MBA from London Business School and Columbia Business School where he specialised in value investing.

Matthias was appointed to the board in October 2022.