Simon Merchant

Biographical Information
"Simon is an entrepreneur with a background in finance, IT and venture capital. Previous roles include heading up Morgan Stanley’s technology M&A business for Europe and co-founding and leading the development of StreamVPN (sold to a US public company in 2005). Since 2006, as a co-founder of New Street Capital, Simon has been focusing on venture capital and has built a portfolio of high growth technology and media investments in Europe. Simon is the CEO and co-founder of Jacana and spent 2011 living in Accra and working with our investment team for West Africa."

Affiliations

 * Investment Committee, InReturn
 * Chair, Theatre for a Change