Oxwood

Growth investors enabling opportunity

Growth investors enabling opportunity

We are investors and business builders.

We drive, empower, and pursue growth.

 

We are an established team of successful software entrepreneurs, who use our extensive experience and industry networks to upgrade and upscale enterprise software companies throughout the world.

Adept in realigning and revitalising businesses to accomplish ambitious goals, we strategically work closely with management teams to help organisations achieve their true potentials.

Our steps to success
are well-trodden:

1.

Reset the focus of the business, prioritise resources & maximise growth.

2.

Upgrade policies, processes, systems & controls to improve directive focus.

3.

Upscale & Implement expert plans to deliver more value for employees, customer and shareholders.

With compliance automation targeted and burgeoning Economic, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements on industry, we invest in Tech, Industrial IoT and Data Analytics platform businesses.

Our motivations are to work with firms at the forefront of delivering services that assist in the adaption of complying with ESG regulatory requirements and alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by;

Delivering Compliance Automation through advanced technologies that generate sustainable growth

Driving end-to-end automation by harmonising data from multiple sources

Developing sustainable new value with an optimum blend of different digital technologies

Meet the Partners

Howard Sears

Executive Chairman

A serial technology entrepreneur with a 20-year track record of delivering impressive shareholder value. Howard has started, invested into and built a number of companies delivering circa £100m of value from successful exits.

Chris Bates

CEO

A business builder who uses strong collaborative leadership skills to drive and deliver new value, within complex sectors such as Capital Markets and Regulated Industries. Chris previously founded, built and sold a regtech business for Compliance Automation to a FTSE 100 company and is also an investor and advisor to tech firms.

John Able

COO

Boasting over 30 years’ experience in transforming financial services, communications and IT businesses, John is skilled in complex programme set up and deliveries, systems and process re-engineering. He has a big four consulting and accounting background and also co- founded and exited a Regtech firm to a FTSE 100 company.

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