About VIP

Who are we?

Who We Are

The company Background

our goal

To acquire minority stakes in the General Partners (GPs) and Management Companies of well-positioned venture capital and private equity funds, with the goal to take the underlying funds to scale.

Our Mission

To source, structure, and lead direct investments.

Our Values

To provide business services to VIP’s portfolio companies and funds.

Executive & Investment Management

Julie Meyer

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer

Scott Fulton

Co-Chief Investment Officer and Investment Director

Our team

Reza Nader-Sepahi

Venture Partner

Reza has been a friend and colleague of the Chairman and CEO since 1998. He was the General Counsel of Mondus, one of the early internet successes of the 2000’s. He has been at the heart of some of the world’s leading hedge funds and investment advisory firms. A true entrepreneur at heart, Reza, based in Dubai, has a deal-making, compliance, legal and financial services background which enables the clients and portfolio companies of VIP to scale.

Andrej kajganić

Marketing Director

Andrej has led Marketing for VIP since 2H 2018 and has successfully delivered 7 Investor Summits for VIP. He has created https://globalftenetwork.com, https://keanaissance.com and https://entrepreneurcountryglobal.com.

His team manage the VIVA Networks social media platforms which reach more than 325,000 members.

Michael Moszynski

Senior Advisor

One of the leading Advertising executives in the world, Michael has created many iconic brand campaigns in his career including the Mandarian Oriental ‘She’s a Fan; He’s a Fan.’ Michael is a shareholder of VIP.

Chris Doulke

Operations Director, Kea, Greece

Chris has worked with VIP since 2020 and manages the properties in Greece.

Reza is the Venture Partner at VIVA Investment Partners. With more than 20 years of experience in Insurance, Banking, Asset Management and Family Office and Funds, he is a perfect addition to the VIP Team as his experience in strategic development, legal and technology brings the know-how to VIP companies. He started his career as the Corporate Counsel for Mondus, Pan-European SME Marketplace and has since then been a General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Gottex Fund Management, Director – Caspian Markets at HSBC, and has spent more than ten years of career as a Group General Counsel & Compliance Director at Nexus Insurance Brokers.

Michael Moszynski graduated from LSE and worked for the Saatchi Brothers for over 20 years. Having run large global clients from London he then set up M&C Saatchi’s offices in Hong Kong, New York, London, Africa and The Middle East.

In 2008 Michael launched LONDON Advertising as a new type of global agency, working from one office in London and using technology to disrupt the existing large, slow and bureaucratic networks.

Michael has worked with entrepreneurs on every continent to create successful global brands that were able to exit for billions of dollars, including lastminute.com, Ketel One Vodka and Glo Mobile.

Scott Fulton is an economics graduate and a capital markets specialist. From 1988 until 2000, he worked within London’s equity capital market as an Extel rated analyst in the Building and Construction sector for, amongst others, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and ABN Amro. From 2000, Scott moved into financial public relations and investor relations (“FPR” and “IR”). He was the director responsible for IR and M&A at Financial Dynamics (now FTI), Citigate Dewe Rogerson (CDR), Just Retirement plc (now Just Group) and Asda Burson Marsteller (UAE).

On returning from the Gulf in 2015, Scott re-joined investment analysis at Whitman Howard (recently sold to Panmure Gordon) before moving into Proxy Solicitation, specialising in M&A, at Equiniti plc. Through his professional career, Scott has focused on and developed skills in investor relations.

Malcolm H. Ross is an independent consultant with 45 years’ experience in critiquing and enhancing strategies to monetise new products, services and enterprises, particularly those enabled by new mobile communications, high-speed data and media.

Based in Malta, he advises, challenges and coaches C-Level executives and investors across Europe and South-East Asia. Until July 1999 he was Vice-President in, Arthur D. Little’s world-wide Electronics, IT and Telecoms Practice.

Tim is currently the Chief Technology and Product Officer of VIVA Investment Partners, as well as being on advisory boards for a number of UK start-ups covering Electric Vehicles, FinTech, Payments and Legal.

Coming from a technical development background and having 25 years of experience with startups and scale-ups, Tim has a proven track record of building technology companies whilst working in the fast-paced and often resource-limited start-up culture. He has founded or joined early-stage start-up/scale-ups across a number of varied domains: Military, Telecoms, Work-from-home enabling tech, ERP/ Vehicle Logistics and most recently FinTech.

Tim was heavily involved in a number of Open Banking steering groups, covering the implementation and roll-out with FCA and OBIE. This experience and his work across sectors have provided him with strong credentials in Governance/process creation and standards, including FCA AISP accreditation. Additionally, Tim has extensive experience working in-depth with both AWS and Azure together with in-depth experience of cloud-native architectures for highly scalable, high availability enterprise systems solutions – design, management and implementation.

Kate is an experienced B2B marketing executive based in London. After two decades in marketing for financial services firms including American Express, J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC, RBS and Deutsche Bank, her sector knowledge extends across asset and wealth management, investment banking, and FinTech. She has covered a number of verticals including alternative investments, energy, commodities, commercial property, infrastructure, automotive, and luxury goods.

Her areas of expertise include marketing strategy, brand activation, partnerships, social media/public relations engagement, digital campaigns, lead generation, and sales enablement. Her work with startups has included FinTechs, ESG SaaS, and DeepTech companies.

A native of New York City, Kate moved to the UK in 2008 and is a dual US/UK national. She attained a post-graduate diploma in strategy and innovation at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and studied political economy at Yale and Cornell. A qualified independent Non-Executive Director in fund management, she serves on the advisory board of RegTech Women, as a member of the CISI FinTech Forum and as a trustee of the Wentworth Africa Foundation. She is a member of several investor networks including the Green Angel Syndicate.

Julie Meyer is the Chief Executive of VIVA Investment Partners (VIP), a firm she co-founded in July 2018 when she sold the Ariadne Capital Group to a Swiss Private Equity firm.

She leads the investment platform and sits on the Board of Directors of VIP, Drive Software Solutions and Entrepreneur Country Limited. She is heading up the firm’s expansion to Greece.

She has received an MBE during the Queen’s Honours list in the UK as well as an honorary doctorate from Warwick University in the UK for Ecosystem Economics®.

She was named as one of INSEAD’s Top 50 Alumni as well as one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leader’s for Tomorrow.

Richard Parris is Adviser and Founder Shareholder at VIVA Investment Partners.

Richard is passionate about building great businesses, developing people and creating value. He is a proven entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience as a public company chairman. Richard founded and was Chairman and CEO of the Intercede Group, an UK/US cybersecurity software company, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Currently, Richard is the Executive Chairman of Sabien Technology Group plc, public-listed company focused on green technology, and is the Chairman of Drive Software Systems, an automotive fleet management and mobility service provider. He is also the CEO of Salt Cybersecurity Ltd, the European subsidiary of an Australian cybersecurity business.

Richard is a graduate of the University of Manchester, holds an MBA from the University of Warwick and is a Registered Engineer.

Our Team

Daniel is the company’s UK General Counsel.

Prior to setting up his own law firm in 2010, he was Head of Employment Law at well-known City and West End firms. In addition, he is a Consultant to a number of law firms and businesses. He is an economics graduate and also a former Barrister. Daniel’s primary specialism is employment law, although his wide-ranging knowledge and experience of commercial law has made him a trusted asset to many loyal business clients.

He is a firm believer in a pragmatic, solutions-based approach to advice. Daniel has appeared on radio and TV advising and commenting on topical legal issues. He also speaks fluent French.

Andrej is the company’s Marketing Manager.

An experienced copywriter and a digital marketing enthusiast, Andrej worked for leading advertising agencies in Croatia where he built his experience working on advertising campaigns for the biggest telecoms, IT companies, banks and many others.

His digital expertise started with the growing influence of social media when he connected that to the copywriting skills he developed.

Andrej is very skilled in creating creative concepts, digital and social media campaigns.

Michelle is the Operations Manager at VIVA Investment Partners AG.

She’s based in Zurich, Switzerland and is the contact person for all matters concerning the company in Switzerland.