Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Angels

The major investors in Tortoise Media have been revealed.

David Thomson, aka Lord Thomson of Fleet, is Canada's richest man, the reluctant public face of an empire including Thomson Reuters, Woodbridge, the Thomson family investment company, and  The Globe and Mail Inc. He's reported to have several homes in London, including one in Holland Park; his two most recent offspring are with one Severine Nackers, Head of Prints for Sotheby's Europe.

Saul Klein was a contemporary of James Harding at St Paul's School, and later at Cambridge University. He started off as a salesman at the Telegraph Group, but soon ramped through new media companies including Firefly, Microsoft, Skype, Lovefilm, Seed Camp, Index Ventures and more. He's an adviser to the DCMS.

Bernie and Genevieve Mensah have invested as individuals. Bernie is President of EMEA for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Genevieve is a churchwarden at Holy Trinity, Brompton, base of the Alpha courses; Bernie's on the board of Alpha International.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Other people who read this.......