The Defiant team

I started investing at the age of 16, with $50 to my name and stock quotes in the back of a newspaper. Six months later a $2 dividend cheque came in the mail and I’ve never looked back.

After a brief stint as an engineer designing 40-storey skyscrapers, I’ve worked at some of the worlds leading institutions - Rothschild, Vitruvian Partners and Felix Capital.Over these 10+ years, I’ve supported more than 20 start-ups ranging from seed through to IPO, across Europe, the US and Asia. Wise, Marqeta, Mirakl, Travelperk, Pindrop, Forter, Juni, Re:cap and Vue Storefront to name a few.Over my career I’ve seen what great companies look like, and know how hard the founder journey can be (having also been a failed entrepreneur myself). Previously a competitive powerlifter and professional cellist. I pride myself on deep work, asking hard questions and never being satisfied with average.

I‘ve been building businesses for as long as I can remember, with humble beginnings selling bootleg software at school to eventually designing and building software myself (thankfully with SaaS, bootleg is no longer a thing).

I spent the first half of my career as a quant trader and financial analyst within global investment banks, before pivoting to product. It’s here I had the pleasure of founding and scaling several SaaS businesses, and leading one to exit. I know what it's like to be a sole founder, but also what it's like to work in a team that scales a business from $1m to $10m ARR.I love talking product & product strategy, but also getting down and dirty in the technical details, and I love hearing about founders’ journeys and challenges, and what we can do to help.