Anil Hansjee

Current

• Industrial Advisory Board member CISM at Kingston University
• Advisor at Twitter Partners
• Advisory Board member at European Leadership Programme (ELP)

• Board observer at dotMobi
• Technical Advisory Board member at sport england
• Board observer at Mobile Planet Limited
• Advisory Board member at Seedcamp
• External Relations Board member at BCS
• Head of Corporate Development - EMEA at Google Inc
• Board observer at FON
• Professor in On-line Knowledge Economy - Visiting at Kingston University

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Past

• Board observer at Ubiquisys
• 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, Product Management - Risk at JP Morgan Chase
• Senior Systems Engineer, Equities and Equities Derivatives Front Office IT at Union Bank of Switzerland (Previously SBC and O’Connor Ass)
• IT Consultant at PwC (now IBM GS)

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Education

• London Business School
• The University of Edinburgh
• Kingston University

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Connections

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Industry

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Websites

• Foundation Capital Ltd

Anil Hansjee’s Summary

Anil Hansjee’s Specialties:

deal sourcing and investing/execution, business building in tech

Anil Hansjee’s Experience

• Industrial Advisory Board member CISM

  Kingston University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Advisor

  Twitter Partners

  (Online Media industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Advisory Board member

  European Leadership Programme (ELP)

  (Privately Held; Program Development industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Board observer

  dotMobi

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Technical Advisory Board member

  sport england

  (Sports industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Board observer

  Mobile Planet Limited

  (Telecommunications industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• Advisory Board member

  Seedcamp

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

• External Relations Board member

  BCS

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

• Head of Corporate Development - EMEA

  Google Inc

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  M&A and strategic partnership for Google Inc within Europe, Middle East, Africa
  
  Announced deals:
  o Asset purchase of Marratech (Sweden, web video conferencing software)
  o Asset purchase of Panoramio (Spain, geo-located photo web community)
  o Stock purchase of Jaiku (Finland, mobile micro-blogging software and community)
  o Investment in FON (Spain, open source WIFI community) with Index, Skype founders, BT, Coral
  o Investment in Ubiquisys (UK, femtocell devices) with Accel, Atlas, Advent Venture, T-Ventures, NEC
  o Investment in Mobile Planet (Kenya, mobile applications) – Google’s first African investment

• Board observer

  FON

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

• Professor in On-line Knowledge Economy - Visiting

  Kingston University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• Board observer

  Ubiquisys

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  2007 — August 2009 (2 years )

• Director

  GP Bullhound

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

  April 2006 — August 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

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  July 2002 — February 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.
  
  Invested in Shazam Entertainment (incl board director)
  Invested and sold Lionhead Studios (now Microsoft)
  Invested in Level 5 Networks (now Solarflare Communications)

• Board Director, Co-Founder

  Foundation Capital Ltd

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2000 — July 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
  
  Interim CFO for financial straight-through-processing software and services firm (Wordflow)
  
  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; BSC; Financial Services industry)

  May 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Client Relationship Manager for corporate finance client in the Software and IT Services sector of Europe.
  
  Helped build a technology corporate finance franchise in London from scratch
  
  Worked on multiple assignments such as sale of Geneva Technologies to Convergys for $692m

• Senior Associate, Corporate Finance

  JP Morgan Chase

  (Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

  June 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 11 months)

  Worked on Private Equity funding roles such as $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)
  
  Worked on Fairness Opinion roles such as Citicorp Venture’s attempted sponsored $200 Million MBO of Sybron, a US specialist chemical-technology firm
  
  Worked on Buy Side M&A and Debt Financing roles such as Norwegian carrier’s carrier Enitel’s NOK 2 Billion acquisition of Telia Norge and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe’s $525 Million LBO of US payments processor BancTec, generating approx. $10 Million in fees
  
  Worked on Sell Side M&A roles such as $60 Million sell side for US voice-and-data Communications Company, Denro. Sold to Northrup.
  
  Worked on Debt financing roles such as $40 Million of bank debt for Spean Bridge and Warbug Pincus’ and General Atlantic Partner’s £200 Million MBO of UK IT services/ BPO firm Rebus

• Vice President, Product Management - Risk

  JP Morgan Chase

  (Public Company; JPM; Banking industry)

  May 1994 — June 1997 (3 years 2 months)

  ➢ Product management responsibility for designing, building, running and marketing internally critical IT products for the front office focused on trading risk management
  ➢ One of 4 VPs with operational responsibility for the front office IT department, managing a team of 6 top systems engineers
  ➢ Revolutionised both the speed of delivery and the user friendliness of applications previously seen at the bank, by delivering the first object-oriented client-server based application, on time and on budget
  ➢ Developed and managed software vendor relationships such as Infinity, Iona, Business Objects
  ➢ Secured 3 years worth of budget approvals for overhauling the bank’s trading systems using distributed systems
  ➢ Delivered the City of London’s first deployment of Iona’s Corba distributed system middleware
  ➢ During part time MSc in Finance, given responsibility to improve the IR portfolio revaluation yield curve generation and establish a margin-based IR trading business for the bank’s hedge fund clients

• Senior Systems Engineer, Equities and Equities Derivatives Front Office IT

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

  (Banking industry)

  January 1992 — May 1994 (2 years 5 months)

  ➢ Part of a top team of 5 C++ developers, operating on the largest commercially deployed SUN Solaris server farm, building the most advanced equity derivatives trading platform in the community, at the time
  ➢ Managed and supplied the technological and operational data requirements of SBC’s European equity cash and derivatives businesses across London, Zurich and Frankfurt, post the acquisition of O’Connor

• IT Consultant

  PwC (now IBM GS)

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

  October 1990 — December 1991 (1 year 3 months)

  IT Consultant Graduate Recruitment Scheme

Anil Hansjee’s Education

• London Business School

  MSc , Finance , 1995 — 1997

• The University of Edinburgh

  BSc (hons) , Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence , 1986 — 1990

• Kingston University

  Visiting Professor , On-line Knowledge Economy , 2009

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Anil Hansjee’s Websites:

• Foundation Capital Ltd

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