IP Group Plc (IPO.L)

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IP Group Plc

2nd Floor
3 Pancras Square King’s Cross
London N1C 4AG
United Kingdom
44 20 7444 0050
https://www.ipgroupplc.com

Sector(s): Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
Full-time employees: 100

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Gregory Simon Smith A.C.A., ACA	CEO & Exec. Director	730k	N/A	1979
Mr. David Graham Baynes	COO, CFO & Exec. Director	648k	N/A	1964
Mr. Alan John Aubrey F.C.A., FCA	Consultant	735.82k	N/A	1962
Mr. Michael Charles Nettleton Townend	Consultant	528.93k	N/A	1962
Ms. Angela Leach	Gen. Counsel & Company Sec.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Helen Redmond	Sr. Compliance & Risk Mang.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Liz Vaughan-Adams	Director of Communications	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Anthony York	Group People Director	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Stuart Thompson	Talent Partner & Head of IP Exec	N/A	N/A	N/A
Dr. Mark Alexander Reilly Ph.D.	Managing Partner of Technology & Board Observer	N/A	N/A	1980

Amounts are as of 31 December 2021, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in GBp.

Description

IP Group Plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, start-up, incubation, growth capital, and mature financing. The firm also provides seed capital financing to spin out companies from the universities. It seeks to invest in the life sciences, physical sciences, energy & renewables, medical equipment and supplies, healthcare, technology, cleantech, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology, information technology & communications, and chemicals & materials. It also provides support for its university partners' intellectual property commercialization activities, as well as in the identification of intellectual property. It typically invests between £0.5 million ($0.75 million) and £1 million ($1.50 million) per investment. The firm prefers to takes equity positions in its portfolio companies. IP Group Plc was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Wilmington, Delaware; London, United Kingdom; Oxford, United Kingdom; Hong Kong S.A.R., Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia.

Corporate governance

IP Group Plc’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 October 2022 is 3. The pillar scores are Audit: 4; Board: 5; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.