Technology Venture Partners the technology venture capital firm has announced the appointment of Richard Green as Non-executive Chairman.

Richard Green joined Kleinwort Benson Development Capital in 1988 and was a founder in 2001 of the spin-out business which became August Equity LLP, where he was the Managing Partner until 2009 and then Chairman until his retirement in April 2014.  He is a past chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and is currently a non-executive director of AIM-quoted Qannas Investments Limited, a non-executive director of Northern Venture Trust PLC, a member of the Advisory Board of Finance for Business North East and a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Investment Bank’s Growth Finance Initiative.

 

About Technology Venture Partners

Technology Venture Partners is venture capital firm investing in emerging technology companies in the South of the UK. TVP invests across a broad range of technology sectors including enterprise and infrastructure software, communications and networking, electronics, advanced materials, medical technology and healthcare IT. TVP portfolio companies include Atlas Genetics (point of care DNA based diagnostics for infectious diseases), Symetrica (radiation detection for security applications), Micrima (radiowave based imaging for breast cancer detection) and Dynmark (cloud based mobile messaging and analytics). Several of the TVP portfolio companies were originally spinouts from leading universities and research institutions located in the South of the UK.