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A team with the complementary skills and experience to unlock value in the businesses we back.
Founder
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Simon Vumbaca is the Principal of ASVPO and chairs the Investment and Strategy Committees.
Simon is one of the world’s foremost deal makers. Based in the UK but operating globally, he is sought after as a formidable deal strategist with a unique edge for unlocking high stakes negotiations to close time pressured deals while maximising value.
Over the past three decades he has been at the heart of many of the most complex, high profile, high value corporate and commercial negotiations earning him a reputation as a prolific deal closer. He operates in a peer group of sophisticated investors including HNWs, overseas royal families, international conglomerates, private investors, financial institutions, elite sportspeople, artists, and sports club owners.
Today Simon has a portfolio of interests and the ASVPO team chooses carefully where he devotes his time and attention and with whom he collaborates.
He is multilingual and known for speaking freely and acting quickly. He respects the value of time, the ASVPO team will act swiftly to audit the parameters of the deal considering the commercial, cultural, human and legal aspects of the opportunity and craft a strategy which maximises value and minimises friction.
Simon has longstanding trusted relationships with founders and funders alike. For those on his side of the table he is relentless in his pursuit of driving outstanding outcomes and he stakes his reputation and commercial interests entirely on results.
Scott brings a breadth and depth of experience and ability across technology. Relied upon by tier 1 IT providers such as IBM and HP to sell, negotiate and close global services deals scaling from $100m to multi-billion dollar deals. Always assigned the most complex challenges, from strategy and direction, through to business and technical solution recovery. His ability to deliver results is relied upon by a broad spectrum of organisations ranging from innovative startups to FTSE 20 or Global organisations.
Experienced and proven to be key to M&A activity, able to assess the technical landscape, challenges, opportunities and growth potential. Delivers a clear strategy and direction for technology-related opportunities, mitigating potential challenges and identifying the best course of action.
Scott has proven himself in organisations such as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Logica, Capita working with the largest and most complex clients across all industry verticals.
Scott brings the ability to assess deals not only from a pure business perspective but also how the latest technology solutions can be applied to deliver value.
Gabriele is a marketing and digitization pioneer. Leading expert and lecturer in digital marketing, promoter of digital culture, event speaker, and TV host.
He develops digital projects and strategies, as well as digital branding for businesses and individuals, from web presence to social media marketing to online reputation, from spreading digital culture to organizing tech events.
He is a social media and web strategist for national and international business entities, as well as celebrities from the entertainment and sports sectors.
Formerly a contract lecturer in digital marketing and social media at IED Milan (European Institute of Design), at the ENAIP FVG training center, and for a digital communication course provided by the European University of Rome; formerly a PCTO tutor in web ethics and transparent communication strategies for young people;
He presents the syndicated television program FvgTech dedicated to technology and the digital world. He works as a columnist for various publications including Mixer, TrafficJam, Think! and Agenda Digitale.
He is a speaker and moderator at digital and tech events and conferences. He conducts workshops and seminars on marketing strategies for the promotion of companies and individuals. He coordinates the Digital Security Festival and Samu Digital Days.
John Thompson is an Advisor to ASVPO and a member of the Investment and Strategy Committees, he also leads origination and stakeholder engagement.
John has been immersed in the world of Alternative Investment for the best part of two decades providing advice to Private Capital Firms, Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Family Offices.
John was previously the Global Head of Communications for Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure. At Actis he oversaw communications strategy for over US$10billion of capital raising and advised on M&A and portfolio company activity across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. He was also responsible for delivering a brand evolution for the firm to reflect its strategic direction and worked with Actis’ world class Sustainability team to launch an open source Impact Measurement framework.
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