Heropreneurs is governed by an unpaid Board of Trustees, each with a specific interest and expertise in issues affecting enterprise and the armed forces communitites.
Peter Mountford
Peter Mountford is a successful Financier, Chairman and Non-Executive Director, and active investor. He has helped many companies raise large amounts of capital from Private Equity funds, pre-IPO investors, and Institutional Investors (through IPOs and reversals into cash shells). He is highly experienced in all areas of corporate finance including fund-raising, acquisitions, disposals, MBOs, MBIs, flotations.
He has extensive experience as a Chairman and Non-Executive Director and has been a director of a number of private and public companies including a Non-Executive Director of RWS Holdings plc, one of the world’s leading patent translation and search companies, which has outperformed the FTSE 100 every year for the last 7 years. He is the Chairman of Heropreneurs and was previously Chairman of Lifeline Energy, an internationally acclaimed humanitarian organisation which enables vulnerable people to transform their lives using sustainable and environmentally friendly technology.
Peter was the co-founder of Bradmount Investments, which was formed in 1993 as a private investment company, and through which he completed many successful investments and acquisitions. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982, and in 1986 became one of the founding Directors of Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance. Between 1989 and 1991 he was seconded to the Takeover Panel where he advised on many high profile takeovers and public company transactions.
John Jeffcock
John spent his informative years being educated by Benedictine monks after which he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He had a distinguished career in the army serving in the Gulf War (mentioned in despatches), Northern Ireland and Bosnia Herzegovina.
He now runs Winmark, which manages a powerful portfolio of over ten peer learning networks, including Non Executive Directors, CEOs, Finance Directors and General Counsel. He is a published poet and is working with the Ministry of Defence to create a collation of poetry written by injured soldiers and the bereaved.
Martin Thomas
Martin is a lawyer in the London office of Chadbourne & Parke LLP. He is particularly experienced in public takeovers and initial and secondary public offerings of shares, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, both domestic and cross-border.
Martin has built a strong reputation for advising companies and investment banks on flotations and transactions on both the Official List and the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. In each of the past ten years, he has been one of the most active lawyers advising on public offerings of shares in London. His clients cover many sectors including oil and gas, renewable energy and climate change, carbon trading, financial services and early stage technologies, and he has developed strong relationships with and regularly advises many of the leading investment banks in London.
He is listed as an expert in corporate law in the London market and is highly recommended for M&A and IPO work. He is regarded by both the Legal 500 UK and Chambers as a ‘Leader’ in the field and has been named by The Lawyer magazine as one of its “Hot 100″ lawyers in the UK and Europe, being described as “popular and highly regarded in the city of London”.
David Shrimpton
David is a chartered accountant from a military background. Formerly a senior partner with BDO, David has spent the last ten years as a non-executive director/ Chairman of various companies, both quoted and private, and not-for-profit organisations.
Brigadier Jonathan Bourne-May
Jonathan joined the Coldstream Guards in 1977 and has served with the regiment and the Army in a number of locations, both at home and overseas, over the past 35 years. As well as commanding the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, he commanded 143 (West Midlands)Brigade and has been The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting. His most recent task in the Army was to conduct a study into the future of the nationwide military museum network.
He has been a charitable trustee for the Coldstream Guards for the past 10 years as well as President of the Coldstream Guards Association, a committee member of the Guards Museum Management Board, Jonathan is married with 2 grown up sons and has a wide portfolio of interests, including classical music, travel and history. He leaves the Army later this year in the rank of Brigadier.
Stuart Nicol
Stuart remains a curious , questioning, amused, determined, empathetic, helpful and imperfect human. He does so with experience of six years in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, academic adventures at Loughborough University and London Business School and over 10 years investing in over 25 small to medium UK firms (from satellite operators to funeral directors). Stuart loves investing in small companies and doing his best to help them grow; he also gets a kick and inspiration from mentoring entrepreneurs. In autumn 2012 he will launch a venture capital fund that invests in commercially proven ex military entrepreneurs.
