IPO.L - IP Group Plc

IP Group Plc

Nexus,Discovery Way
Leeds LS2 3AA
United Kingdom
44 (0) 113 894 1905
http://www.ipgroupplc.com

Sector: Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management
Full-time employees: 166

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Alan John Aubrey FCA	CEO & Exec. Director	413k	N/A	1962
Mr. Gregory Simon Smith	CFO & Exec. Director	352k	N/A	1979
Mr. David Graham Baynes	COO & Exec. Director	366k	N/A	1964
Mr. Michael Charles Nettleton Townend	Chief Investment Officer & Exec. Director	350k	N/A	1962
Ms. Angela Leach	Gen. Counsel & Company Sec.	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2018, 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, 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 and in return 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; Leeds, United Kingdom; Oxford, United Kingdom; and Australia.

Corporate governance

IP Group Plc’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 25 June 2019 is 6. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 8; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 3.

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.