Team

Meet the team reinventing private equity for management

Independence Capital

  • Sebastian Hodkinson

    Senior Investment Analyst

  • Ben Atkinson

    Systems Manager

  • Brady Lambert

    Data & Analytics Manager

Portfolio NEDs

We value working with experts in their sector, to help our management teams to better lead their businesses

  • Wayne Martin

    NED, Everything Tech

    • ex founder GCI
  • Steve Smith

    Observer, Novem

    • ex CFO at Daisy Plc
    • Ex Partner EY
  • Spencer Thompson

    NED, Hardtech

    • ex CEO Eclipse Power
    • Ex National Grid

Thoughts from our founder…

Max Ward

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”

John F Kennedy speaking at a lectern, the seal of the President of the United States behind him.John F Kennedy12 September 1962

There is nothing that brings us more satisfaction than helping great teams and leaders on their way.

It’s at the core of everything we do and whilst that provides us and our investors with economic gain, the value of helping exceptional leaders build their own legacies is frankly priceless.

The problems we seek to continue to solve; rebuilding private equity to favour management, creating a new market for direct investment into exceptional talent and building groups up from the foundation of other owner-managed-businesses are all complex in their own right but none more so when set against the backdrop of social and economic turbulence. There are frankly far easier problems to solve and simpler ways to make money! But none result in the collective sense of pride in achievement, the lifelong friends we make with our new teams & leaders and the learnings we ourselves cherish to inherit from professionals at the top of their sector. There is no more fitting quote for what we do than the words of John F Kennedy noted above.

We appreciate greatly the faith shown in us by truly exceptional talent and entrepreneurial investors and we look forward to continuing to repay that over the years ahead.

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We are always open for business, always looking to support sector-leading talent and add to our ranks operating partners, investors and team members. Tell us a little about yourself and we will be in touch.

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