Funding digital enablers of traditional industries

After a career in banking with 25 years global experience in investment structuring and investment management, Andrew founded several companies. Living and working on almost all continents, Andrew has built a significant international network of deal flow and exit relationships. With extensive entrepreneurial experience, he is an active investor and mentor of various innovative startups. Andrew is Founding Partner of Basinghall and is responsible for strategy, funding structure, investment decisions, management and exits.

Andrew holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Following a period in investment banking for HSBC, Ginette joined a corporate finance advisory startup. She significantly aided the growth of the business, later taking the role of Chief Operating Officer. With 15 years’ experience advising European Small & Medium Sized Companies, Ginette has built out an extensive industry network and deeply understands the strategic needs of various business cycles and industries. Ginette is founding partner of Basinghall and responsible for strategy, industry partnerships, investment decisions and business development.

Ginette holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Starting his career at Valeo Group, a worldwide market leader of the automotive industry, Yannick then spent many years at Fraunhofer Venture. His responsibilities include the sourcing and due diligence of investment opportunities as well as the management and development of the fund’s portfolio companies. With his proven industry experience and knowhow of building high-tech companies, Yannick adds significant value to our startups and partners and joins Basinghall as a Partner.

Yannick holds a diploma in production engineering from the RWTH-Aachen and an MBA with distinction from the HULT International Business School in Boston.

With 15+ years of international banking and corporate ventures, Ilya managed the strategic transformation of universal bank to customer-centric digital platform and, within 2 years, the bank was listed as the Top 3 Best Mobile Bank and World’s Best Bank Rating by Forbes’ 2019.. Ilya has developed a broad network of corporate and private venture partnerships to foster deal flow and exits, and he is an active investor and mentor of number of startups. Ilya is a partner at Basinghall responsible for partnerships, deal sourcing, FinTech portfolio, investment decisions and exits.

Ilya holds an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business and PhD in Privacy Law from Kazan Federal University. Ilya has also completed the CCIM course and an Executive Leadership course at Stanford GSB.

Owen’s DNA is in startup, with a demonstrated track record of providing executive leadership and management in early-stage and growth phase software businesses at founder and board level. He is a commercially-focused Chief Technical Officer and Product Owner with over 18 years experience across a vast array of technologies, both hardware and software.

Owen is an active Angel investor in a number of start ups and holds an architecture degree from the University of Melbourne.