Contact

Alistair Brew
www.linkedin.com/in/alistair- Investor at the Business Growth Fund
brew-316b3 (LinkedIn) London, England, United Kingdom

Top Skills Summary

Private Equity
BGF is a £2.5bn UK Growth Capital Investor backed by the main UK
Due Diligence
banks. I joined in July 2011 initially to lead on new investments. I
Business Strategy
then ran the London investment team before moving into my current
Certifications role which is focused on delivering best practice, both internally and
externally, across all BGF's offices. Alistair remains involved in new
ACA
deal origination and also sits on the board of Gymbox, Evodental
and Juriba. I have over 20 years’ experience in small company
investing and have led investments into over 30 businesses. My
investment experience was gained initially at Close Brothers and
then at Octopus Ventures, where I was involved in a large number
of growth capital and management buyout transactions, across
multiple sectors and throughout the UK. In the majority of cases, I
also joined the board of those companies. I began my career at Price
Waterhouse with direct entry into the Business Recovery Services
team.

Experience
Business Growth Fund
Investor
July 2011 - Present (12 years 9 months)
London, United Kingdom

I have been involved in the following transactions since joining BGF: Dianomi,
Evodental, Chesneys, Acro Aircraft Seating, Rethink, Oliver Sweeney,
Semafone, Gymbox, The Consulting Consortium, Peyton and Byrne, Camino,
Cennox and Wow! Stuff

Octopus Private Equity

Director
March 2005 - June 2011 (6 years 4 months)
London

Close Brothers Investment Limited

Divisional Director
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December 2001 - February 2005 (3 years 3 months)

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Manager
1995 - 2001 (6 years)

Education
University of Oxford
MA, Modern History · (1992 - 1995)

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