luke@riskcapitalpartners.co.uk
020 7016 0702
Luke founded Risk Capital Partners in 2001 with Ben Redmond and is involved in all our investments.
He studied medicine at Oxford and subsequently joined investment bank Kleinwort Benson as an analyst. In 1992 he organised the acquisition of PizzaExpress and floated the business on the stock market at 40p. He was Chairman of this business until 1999, at which time the share price was over 800p and the business had a market capitalisation of over £500 million.
Luke is involved with all our portfolio companies. He recently stepped down as Chairman of Channel 4 Television Corporation, having held the position for six years. Luke writes a weekly column for the Financial Times on entrepreneurship and is Chairman of the Royal Society of the Arts