Summit 2026

Alex Mathers

Partner, Inflexion

Alex Mathers is a Partner in the Value Acceleration team, with a particular focus on Digital, helping our portfolio businesses and investment teams across technology, product development, digital marketing, and data analytics / data science. He also co-ordinates the work of our broader value acceleration team ensuring we bring our full capabilities to the support of our portfolio companies. Since joining Inflexion in 2018 he has worked with a wide variety of Inflexion investments including Alcumus, CMSPI, Lintbells, Marley, Medik8, Medivet, Scott Dunn and Rosemont.

Alex started his career at Accenture, working in a variety of technical architecture and ‘hands-on’ technology roles before working in digital transformation in the music industry. More recently he was an Associate Partner at OC&C Strategy Consultants in London, focused on technology, digital media and ecommerce.

Amol Rajan

Political broadcaster & author

Amol Rajan is the BBC's first ever Media Editor, covering the global impact of the rapidly changing media landscape across politics, business and culture for the BBC's biggest outputs: Today on Radio 4, and the Six O'Clock News and Ten O'Clock News.

Amol has also presented The One Show for BBC One and is a regular presenter on Radio 2, on both The Jeremy Vine Show and Drivetime.

Before joining the BBC, Amol was Editor of The Independent. When appointed to the role in 2013, aged 29, he was both the youngest ever Editor of a British broadsheet title and the first non-white Editor in Fleet Street history.

Prior to becoming Editor, he served as Comment Editor, Sports News Correspondent and Reporter for the title. For two years, he was also an adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, the paper's owner.

Amol hosted a weekly interview programme on London Live called The Headline Interview, where he spoke one-to-one with many influential Londoners, including Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan.

A prolific writer across a range of subjects, he wrote a weekly column for the Evening Standard, served as restaurant critic for The Independent on Sunday for six years, and continues to write regularly for publications including GQ, Politico Europe, The Spectator and the New Statesman.

His television appearances have included Question Time, MasterChef, Great British Menu, Newsnight, The Daily Politics, The Andrew Marr Show and Lorraine. Before joining The Independent, he was the "mic boy" on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff, to which he later returned as a panellist.

Amol combined his interest in cricket with his passion for writing in his first book, Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers, published by Random House in 2011.

He is now the host of University Challenge and a presenter on the Today Programme.
 

Amy Abbott

Director, Industry Development, UK Private Capital

Amy Abbott is UK Private Capital's Director of Industry Development. Prior to joining UK Private Capital in 2012, she was Head of Events & Awards at the Royal Academy of Engineering where she led a small team of event managers to deliver a highly regarded programme of events for the engineering fellowship comprising eminent chartered engineers, business leaders and Royal patrons.

During her nine years at the Academy Amy was secretary to several awards committees including the prestigious MacRobert Award; involving events at Buckingham Palace. She also played a fundamental part in the launch of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering where she was responsible for the launch event involving the former three party leaders. She has a BA Hons in Business and Marketing from Oxford Brookes University.

LinkedIn:

https://linkedin.com/in/amy-abbott-8295964/

Chris Elphick

Head of Venture Capital, UK Private Capital

Chris Elphick is Head of Venture Capital at UK Private Capital. He leads on all policy areas related to venture capital and works closely with UK Private Capital members to promote the role the industry plays in the UK economy by supporting entrepreneurs and businesses.

Chris is a member of the Independent Advisory Board for the Government’s Digital Growth Grant (delivered by Barclays Eagle Labs) and is an adviser to the APPG for Entrepreneurship.

Dana Haimoff

UK Private Capital Vice Chair 2026-27 and Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, JP Morgan Asset Management

Dana Haimoff, Managing Director, joined the Private Equity Group in 2002. Dana is a Portfolio Manager responsible for sourcing, due diligence, leading investment recommendations and monitoring private equity funds, co-investments and secondary opportunities.

Currently, Dana serves on numerous private equity fund and direct co-investment advisory committees. Prior to joining the Group, she spent six years with Merrill Lynch working with alternative asset funds and initiating, developing and servicing new and existing client accounts. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Dana worked at Prudential Securities in the Corporate Finance Group’s private equity practice and at Ernst & Young as an International Tax Consultant. She earned a BS from Skidmore College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Dana is the co-Founder of Level 20, a not-for-profit organization set up to encourage women to succeed in the private equity industry. She is the Vice Chair and member of the UK Private Capital's Council. Dana is a director on the board of JP Morgan Asset Management International Ltd and JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Ltd and is responsible for the firm’s SMCR’s EMEA Alternatives.
 

Evgenia Plotnikova

General Partner, Dawn Capital

Evgenia Plotnikova is a General Partner at Dawn Capital, leading investments across AI, infrastructure, and automation. Her first love was political science, which still underpins how she invests: she is drawn to moments when a step change in technology meets a structural need the market has underestimated. Her conviction has driven some of Dawn’s most defining investments including Dataiku, the platform for AI success; Fonoa, solving tax compliance across hundreds of jurisdictions; and inforcer, delivering AI to millions of small businesses through the power of Microsoft. She has also supported founders through major exits, including to Intel and Nvidia.

As one of Dawn’s earliest employees, Evgenia knows what it means to be in the room when something is small and to stay through every stage of the growth journey. She is a superconnector whose greatest joy is putting her network to work for founders; unlocking new hires, partnerships, and markets.

Evgenia is the youngest woman in Europe to be internally promoted to General Partner, a Kauffman Fellow, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree. Before Dawn, she spent over a decade advising and investing at Atomico, TPG Capital, and J.P. Morgan, and studied at Sciences Po Paris and at the Wharton School.

Hugh Campbell

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Bullhound Capital

Hugh Campbell is a co-founder and Managing Partner of GP Bullhound. Hugh is passionate about technology innovation and entrepreneurs with many years’ experience advising and investing in Europe’s current and future Unicorns. He has worked with all the leading growth equity funds in Europe and has sold businesses to Real Networks, Disney, Accenture and Experian amongst others.

Hugh started his career at Citibank in M&A before moving on to Goldman Sachs where he worked in Equity Research. Hugh is from an entrepreneurial publishing family who sold John Murray Publishers to Hachette in 2002 and founded an e-learning business, Pastest Limited, where Hugh is Chairman.

In 2000, Hugh left Goldman Sachs and spent most of the year working and living in Beijing, China before going back to his investment banking roots by co-founding GP Bullhound. Hugh opened the Manchester office in 2013, is a Manchester Grammar School alum and graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford.
 

Imogen Richards

Partner & Head of European Primaries, Pantheon

Imogen Richards is a Partner and Head of Primaries in Pantheon’s European Private Equity team and also a member of the Global Primary Committee, ESG Committee and Allocation Committee. Imogen joined Pantheon in 2005, and prior to joining the primaries team, she was a member of Pantheon’s secondary team and also headed up the Investment Structuring and Strategy division. Imogen is also on the board of Level 20 and chairs the Senior Leader’s Committee.

Prior to Pantheon Imogen worked on small and mid-market private equity and mezzanine transactions for Anglo Irish Bank. She holds a master’s degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Imogen is based in London.

Isobel Clarke

Director of Policy, UK Private Capital

Isobel Clarke is Director of Policy at UK Private Capital, with Sarah Adams. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and UK Private Capital's committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.

Isobel has over 13 years’ experience of working on government policy, mainly at HM Treasury but also at the Ministry of Justice. She has led policy work on business rates, tax devolution and the scrutiny of tax reliefs. She was, with Sarah, Deputy Director for Business Tax Strategy and then Deputy Director for Open Justice and Dispute Resolution.

Isobel lives in London with her family. She read French and German at the University of Cambridge, spending a year in Berlin. Before joining HM Treasury she was a research and evaluation consultant.

Juliette Gerstein

Head of Public Affairs, UK Private Capital

Juliette Gerstein leads the Public Affairs Team at UK Private Capital, spearheading UK Private Capital’s political and parliamentary engagement and working alongside the Policy and Communications teams.

Juliette has spent over 10 years working in financial services public affairs, including a number of years at the FCA. Having started her career working in Parliament, she also previously supported clients with their external communications at agencies Portland and Lexington.

Katie Ramsey

Head of the Global Venture Capital Unit, Office for Investment

Katie Ramsey is Head of the Global Venture Capital Unit in His Majesty’s Government’s Office for Investment, and previously served as the Head of Fintech at the Department for Business & Trade, Co-Founder of The Power Collective and angel investor.

Ex-BlackRock, she was Shortlisted for Angel of the Year 2024, invests across sectors including fintech and is a former fund manager and algorithmic trader, and previously twice winner of Financial News’ Top 40 Under 40, UN Women UK Delegate, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader nominee and Fintech Power List Power 45 winner.
 

Laura West

Head of Industry Development, Membership, UK Private Capital

Laura West is UK Private Capital’s Head of Industry Development, Membership. Prior to joining UK Private Capital, Laura was Head of Membership and Events at the Business Services Association (BSA).

Prior to this she spent over a decade working in television production and communications at BBC, ITV, and Viacom, producing and leading on global prime time, live events and productions.

Laura holds a B.A. (Hons) in Politics and History with Spanish from The University of Manchester and received a Distinction in Spanish Studies from The University of Málaga.

Leon de Bono

Managing Director, Industry Development, UK Private Capital

Leon de Bono is UK Private Capital's Managing Director. Before joining the UK Private Capital in 2010 he was the Publishing Director and a member of the team that launched Private Equity News, part of eFinancialNews, which was acquired by Dow Jones in 2007. He began working in the private equity industry with Caspian Media in 2001. He has a BA from University College London and an MA from The Courtauld Institute.

Lucia Villamor

Partner, Investor Relations, Endless

Since joining Endless in 2008, Lucia has gained a wide range of experience across both transactions and portfolio. She now brings that experience to our investor relations function. A qualified chartered accountant, Lucia joined Endless after four years in professional practice. Her time at Endless has seen her cover transactional, portfolio and marketing roles.

She now heads Investor Relations at Endless and Enact, looking after our existing investors as well as looking to build relationships with new ones and project managing our fundraising processes.

Lucia enjoys spending her spare time keeping fit and she has also recently taken on new hobbies like water skiing and horse riding, both of which often result in her three young children laughing at her distinctively average efforts.

Martin Senk

Senior Research Manager, UK Private Capital

Martin Senk is the Senior Research manager at UK Private Capital. He holds a Statistics, Economics and Finance degree from University College London and is responsible for project managing the Report on Investment Activity publication, producing industry insights and actively engaged in ESG data analysis.

Michael Moore

Chief Executive, UK Private Capital

Michael Moore is Chief Executive of UK Private Capital (formerly BVCA) .

Michael and his colleagues are focused on supporting the development of the private capital industry, as it invests in thousands of businesses and supports millions of jobs across the UK. As policymakers work on the competitiveness of the UK’s investment climate, Michael is confident that private equity and venture capital will continue to create significant public value through investment in growth, innovation and people.

Over the past 30 years Michael has operated at senior levels in both politics and business. In his political career he served in the Cabinet at the time of the Coalition Government, as Secretary of State for Scotland. He was a Member of Parliament for 18 years.

After the 2015 General Election, Michael became a Senior Advisor at PwC. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm.

Michelle Lamprecht

Head of Corporate Affairs, Cambridge Innovation Capital

Michelle Lamprecht is Head of Corporate Affairs and manages CIC’s ESG and Impact strategy, marketing strategy, and is a communications advisor/mentor to CIC’s portfolio companies.

She brings 20 years of international leadership experience in strategic communications and business, spanning both publicly listed and privately owned organisations.

Michelle has held several governance and advisory roles, including serving as a board member for Byte Night (Action for Children) and as a trustee for Citizens Advice. She is currently a Non-Executive Director at Form the Future and a member of UK Private Capital's Value Creation Taskforce, UK Private Captial's External Affairs Advisory Committee, and the Reframe Venture Portfolio Support Committee.

She holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing.

Nick Kingsbury

Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners

Nick Kingsbury is a director on the boards of XYZ Reality, the company bringing augmented reality to the construction industry, Brytlyt, who have built the world’s most advanced data analytics and visualisation software, DirectID, the Scottish FinTech start-up whose products leverage the identity and data that customers have with their banks, and most recently Sitehop who have built a high bandwidth, low latency encryption appliance.

He is also the investment manager for Altana.ai, who use AI to analyse billions of data elements on global trade to help governments, enterprises, and financial institutions understand risks and build better global commerce; and SandboxAQ, the acquirer of Amadeus portfolio company Cryptosense. SandboxAQ bring together AI and Quantum technologies for security, molecular modelling and other advanced applications.

Nigel Walder

Partner, Bain Capital

Nigel Walder joined Bain Capital Private Equity as a Partner in 2015. He co-leads the Services & Media vertical and our UK coverage efforts. He sits on a number of Bain Capital portfolio company boards, including HSO, Valeo Foods, Maesa & Bugaboo. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Walder was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan.

He occupied a variety of positions in London & Hong Kong. and most recently was a Managing Director in their European leveraged finance business. Mr. Walder received a BA (Hons) from Oxford University.

Patricia Volhard

Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Patricia Volhard is head of the firm’s European Funds Regulatory practice. She is based in the Paris and Frankfurt offices, and also spends substantial time in the London office.

She is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, and Private Equity and Funds/Investment Management Groups. She is also a member of the firm’s core group of ESG partners. Her practice focuses on advising private funds and fund managers on structuring and setting up funds for a European investor base, as well as advising on European financial regulatory aspects for fund managers and corporates, including on SFDR, CSRD, CSDDD and other ESG-related regulation.

Ms.Volhard is one of Europe’s leading private funds regulatory lawyers and has played a prominent role in the ongoing development of the area. She is Chair of Invest Europe’s Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group, a member of its SFDR working group, and former Chair of its Tax, Legal & Regulatory Committee.

She is also a member of the Investment Management Consultative Working Group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). In Germany, she is a member of the Board of the BVK, and heads its Legal Committee. In the UK, she is a member of the regulatory committee of the BVCA.
 

Professor Sir Ian Chapman

CEO, UK Research & Innovation

Professor Sir Ian Chapman is the CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He joined from the UK Atomic Energy Authority, where he’d been CEO since October 2016.

Winner of multiple international awards for his work on fusion. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2013, became a visiting Professor at Durham University in 2015 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2022.

In 2023, he was knighted in the King’s New Year’s Honours, made an Honorary Fellow of the Nuclear Institute and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Richard Swann

UK Private Capital Chair 2026-27 and Partner, Inflexion

Richard Swann chairs Inflexion’s Investment Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee, Realisation Committee and Responsible Investment Steering Committee. He previously chaired the Executive Committee and Responsible Investment Steering Committee and was the Head of Buyout. 

Richard joined Inflexion in 2008 and has since been involved in many of Inflexion’s current and previous investments.

Outside of Inflexion, Richard is passionate about the role education plays in society, and is a member of the Council of the University of Birmingham. Richard also sits on the Board of UK Private Capital.

Richard has a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham and an MBA from the University of Warwick, and was previously a partner with Deloitte and its predecessor firm Arthur Andersen.

Rob Desborough

General Partner & Chair of the Seraphim Space Accelerator, Seraphim Space

Rob Desborough is a General Partner at Seraphim Space Manager LLP and Chair of the Seraphim Space Accelerator, the world’s first and leading SpaceTech accelerator program. Previously, he was an Investment Director at YFM Equity Partners. Rob holds a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Glasgow and a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology Systems from the University of Strathclyde.

Under his leadership, the Seraphim Space Accelerator has graduated over 115 SpaceTech start-ups, which have collectively raised over $1 billion in co-investment. He serves as a fund representative on the boards of Xona Space Systems and other early-stage category leaders, helping guide the next generation of transformative SpaceTech companies. 

Sarah Adams

Director of Policy, UK Private Capital

Sarah Adams is Director of Policy at UK Private Capital, with Isobel Clarke. Isobel and Sarah have worked as a jobshare partnership since early 2020. They lead the Policy team and their work across tax, legal, regulatory, accounting and sustainability matters, working closely with members and UK Private Capital's committees to progress key technical and strategic policy issues.

Sarah has over a decade of experience making policy in the centre of government, mainly at HM Treasury. She has led on policy areas across tax, spending and financial services, including pensions tax, venture capital and insurance markets. With Isobel, she has been deputy director for business tax strategy at HM Treasury, and deputy director for open justice and dispute resolution at the Ministry of Justice.

Sarah lives in London with her family. She studied economics at the University of Cambridge and worked on global health economics before joining the civil service.

Suzi Gillespie

Head of Research, UK Private Capital

Suzi Gillespie leads the Research Team at UK Private Capital ensuring the organisation is at the forefront of crucial analysis of trends and issues surrounding venture capital and private equity and the impact of the industry on the economy.

Suzi previously spent over 15 years at PwC in a variety of roles including Valuations, Pensions and Consulting. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a degree in Economics from the University of Warwick.