Anil Hansjee

Anil Hansjee

Corporate Development

London, United Kingdom

Current
  • Head of Corporate Development - Europe at Google Inc
Past
  • Director at GP Bullhound
  • Principal at IDG Ventures
  • Board Director, Co-Founder at Foundation Capital Ltd
  • Vice President, Corporate Finance at Bear Stearns
  • Senior Associate, Corporate Finance at JP Morgan Chase
  • Vice President, Information Technology at JP Morgan Chase
  • Senior Systems Engineer, Capital Markets IT at Union Bank of Switzerland (Previously SBC and O’Connor Ass)
  • IT Consultant at PwC (now IBM GS)
Education
  • London Business School
  • The University of Edinburgh
Connections
401 connections
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Websites

Anil Hansjee’s Summary

Anil Hansjee’s Specialties:

deal sourcing and investing/execution, business building in tech


Anil Hansjee’s Experience

  • Head of Corporate Development - Europe

    Google Inc

    (Public Company; GOOG; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2006Present (1 year 11 months)

    M&A and strategic partnership for Google Inc within Europe, Middle East, Africa

  • Director

    GP Bullhound

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Investment Banking industry)

    April 2006August 2006 (5 months)

    Consulting on behalf of GP Bullhound on a variety of technology corporate finance deals - buyside, sellside, private placement and an industry research project

  • Principal

    IDG Ventures

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    July 2002February 2006 (3 years 8 months)

    Responsibilities include establishing a Scandinavian VC syndication network, setting priority investment technology sub-segment target sectors, generating deal flow, marketing IDG Ventures in Europe, deal execution and portfolio company board representation.

    • Currently actively undergoing due diligence on several early stage investment prospects.
    • Serving as an observer board member of Shazam Entertainment Ltd.

  • Board Director, Co-Founder

    Foundation Capital Ltd

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    March 2000July 2002 (2 years 5 months)

    TMT corporate finance and strategic advisory and consulting boutique created to manage personal advisory work:

    Dec 2005 - Completed seed investment in a pan Scandinavian retail franchise brand

    Currently raising commitments for £100k+ for a target of 4-5 seed investments & brought in 2 retail sector-experienced angel investors to be the active managers

    Interim CFO for financial straight-through-processing software and services firm (Wordflow) - currently serving as a board observer

    Interim CTO for start-up Avondi: SME barter marketplace, backed by Netpartners and SEAT

    Advised the representative of the Angolan Government on the completed sale of 25% of Angola’s sole GSM license (UNITEL) to Portugal Telecom International, for $32MM

  • Vice President, Corporate Finance

    Bear Stearns

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

    May 2000November 2001 (1 year 7 months)

    Client Relationship Manager for corporate finance client in the Software and IT Services sector of Europe. Key achievements:

    Built a technology corporate finance franchise from scratch

    Completed sell side representation of the leading next-generation telecommunications billing software company (Geneva Technologies) to a major US player (Convergys) for $692 Million

    Advised on merger between Finnish listed (Proha/Artemis) and Nasdaq listed (Opus360) professional services automation software players

    Worked on Nasdaq and LSE IPO of a leading European telecommunications billing software company (Protek, IPO pulled at last moment due to market movements)

    Lead role on several private equity fundings - Focus One, H2G2, OpenMobile, Speed Ventures

  • Senior Associate, Corporate Finance

    JP Morgan Chase

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

    June 1997April 2000 (2 years 11 months)

    Private Equity funding roles incl:
    1) $50 Million of private equity for wireless local loop provider, Atlantic Telecom, from Marconi
    2) $20 Million of private equity for Boston Venture's backed European cinema multiplex business, Spean Bridge, led by Chase Capital Partners (now JP Morgan Partners)
    3) Fairness Opinion on Citicorp Venture’s attempted sponsored $200 Million MBO of Sybron, a US specialist chemical-technology firm

    Buy Side M&A and Debt financing roles incl:
    1) Norwegian carrier’s carrier Enitel’s NOK 2 Billion acquisition of Telia Norge
    2) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe’s $525 Million LBO of US payments processor BancTec, generating approx. $10 Million in fees

    Sell Side M&A roles incl:
    1)$60 Million sell side for US voice-and-data Communications Company, Denro. Sold to Northrup.

    Debt financing roles incl:
    1)$40 Million of bank debt for Spean Bridge
    2)Warbug Pincus’ and General Atlantic Partner’s £200 Million MBO of UK IT services/ BPO firm Rebus

  • Vice President, Information Technology

    JP Morgan Chase

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

    May 1994June 1997 (3 years 2 months)

    Revolutionised the speed of delivery and the user friendliness of applications from the internal IT department of Chemical Bank (prior to merger with Chase) by delivering its first object-oriented (oo) componentised client-server based application on time and budget (used for covariance / variance based multi-asset portfolio risk)

    Secured 3 years worth of additional projects and resources for overhauling the bank’s trading systems architecture using distributed systems

    Managed oo/distributed system IT vendor relationships such as Infinity, Iona, Business Objects

    Delivered the first deployment of Iona’s Corba distributed system middleware in the City of London

    Managed and motivated a team of 6 top distributed systems developers, bridging the gap between business requirements and IT implementation

    Responsibility to improve the methodology behind the IR portfolio revaluation yield curve generation and establish a margin-based IR business for the bank’s hedge fund clients

  • Senior Systems Engineer, Capital Markets IT

    Union Bank of Switzerland (Previously SBC and O’Connor Ass)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

    January 1992May 1994 (2 years 5 months)

    Part of a crack team of 5 C++ developers, operating on the largest commercially deployed SUN Solaris server farm, building the most advanced equity derivatives trading platform available in the entire global derivates community – a key asset in the acquisition of the proprietary trading fund O’Connor Assoc. by SBC

    Managed and supplied the technological and operational data requirements of SBC’s European equity cash and derivatives businesses across London, Zurich and Frankfurt

  • IT Consultant

    PwC (now IBM GS)

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 1990December 1991 (1 year 3 months)

    IT Consultant Graduate Recruitment Scheme


Anil Hansjee’s Education

  • London Business School

    MSc, Finance, 19951997

  • The University of Edinburgh

    BSc (hons), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, 19861990


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