Christopher Tucker

CEO

Christopher Tucker’s 25-year career has spanned research and development, business planning and strategy, technology and telecom sector finance, investment banking, and venture capital. Christopher founded T&P Ventures and its parent company, Tucker & Partners, and has subsequently built both businesses into an international consulting firms, with offices in the UK and US. While at Tucker & Partners, he also served over three years as a member of the investment committee of Ouest Ventures, a French early stage technology VC firm.

Prior to founding Tucker & Partners, Christopher had spent most of his career in investment banking, where he specialised in the telecommunications and technology sectors and held director / vice president level roles in investment research or corporate finance for investment banks, including Kleinwort Benson, Banque Indosuez, Banque Paribas, and WestLB. While at Banque Indosuez, he played a leading role in winning the bank’s first UK privatization mandate. While at Banque Paribas, he was the lead analyst for the IPO of France Telecom, for which the bank was global coordinator. He also worked on most of the IPOs in the European telecom sector in the mid 1990s. Christopher spent his early career in the UK electricity industry, initially as a research physicist and later as a strategic planner.

Christopher has an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from London University. He is also a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Physicist, a Member of the Institute of Management Consultancy, and an Affiliate Member of the Securities Institute.

Kevin Alexander

Senior Associate, Corporate Law

Kevin is qualified as both a UK solicitor and New York attorney, and has worked for various law firms as a corporate lawyer over a 25 year period on both sides of the Atlantic.

Kevin has a wide variety of international corporate finance legal experience, including the following specific legal areas: setting up companies; capital raisings and shareholder agreements; distribution and technology licensing agreements; IPOs, reverse takeovers of public company; acquisitions and disposals of businesses and companies; loan agreements and project finance; competition and employment law; and numerous other areas of commercial law.

In recent years Kevin has diversified into commercial enterprises as CEO of GTL Resources a UK PLC listed on the AIM. Responsibilities included initiation and completion (to bank credit approvals) of a project financing of an Australian methanol plant, including managing relations with the Australian government, banks, contractors, shippers, and others. He has also been a founder of various enterprises that have effected IPOs recently, including a biotechnology company in the cancer therapeutics area that is listed on AIM, and a biofuels company which recently effected a reverse merger into an OTC shell.

Kevin has an M.A. in law from Cambridge University. Kevin trained at Lovell White Durrant and was admitted as a UK solicitor in 1979. Kevin was admitted to the New York Bar in 1985.

Robert Flintoff

Senior Associate, Finance

Robert is an experienced finance director with extensive international experience in rapidly growing technology and IT companies. During his career, Robert has been involved in three successful IPOs and is experienced in mergers and acquisitions, setting up international operations, financial control, tax, and treasury issues. Robert is also experienced in providing interim finance director services to small and medium-sized companies in the technology and IT sectors.

Robert spent five years as VP Finance EMEA at Peregrine Systems, where he was involved in the company’s IPO in 1997. While at Peregrine, Robert supervised exceptional growth over several European countries. Prior to that, Robert spent nine years with BMC Software, a Texas-based company that was expanding into Europe. As VP of International Finance, Robert controlled the growth of the business across 12 companies in Europe and Asia and implemented several acquisitions. While at BMC Software, the company grew its annual sales from $25m to over $500m and the number of its employees from 20 to 500. Robert spent his early career as Finance/Commercial Director with Geac Computers, a Canadian banking and library systems provider. In his six years with the company, he was responsible for setting up several UK and European subsidiaries and working on high value commercial contracts internationally.

Robert studied Management Sciences at Warwick University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloittes.