Piers Linney

Piers is first and foremost an entrepreneur who draws upon a wide breadth of professional experience. Piers qualified as a solicitor in the City, specialising in private equity at SJ Berwin before joining Barclays de Zoete Wedd and then Credit Suisse First Boston as an investment banker in mergers and acquisitions. He left banking in 2000 to start an Internet based research business and has since been involved in a number of technology, media and telecommunications businesses as a founder, director, investor and adviser.

Simon Newton

Simon qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in London then moved into the firm’s nascent mergers and acquisitions department after qualification. He then moved his advisory career to the next level as a banker with a stint at the London-based Hambros Bank (now part of Société Générale) before he joined Barclays de Zoete Wedd, which was subsequently acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston in January 1998 – where he met his business partner, Piers Linney.