Maven Income and Growth VCT 3

Atul Devani

Chairman and Independent Non-executive Director

Atul has held a number of senior positions in software technology companies operating in various sectors including finance, mobile, telecoms, food & drink, health and pharmaceuticals. He was founder and chief executive officer of AIM listed United Clearing Plc, which was sold to BSG in 2006. He is currently a director of, and an investor in, a number of private limited companies and is also mentor of entrepreneurs at the Company of Information Technologists in the City of London. Atul has a First Class Honours Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University College of North Wales.

David Allan

Independent Non-executive Director

David is a legally qualified corporate finance practitioner with significant experience in equity investment, M&A, VCTs and AIM. He is currently an executive director of Aridhia Informatics Limited, a private equity backed technology company. He is also a partner of Kergan Stewart LLP, a niche corporate finance law firm based in Glasgow. Prior to this, David was a partner with Biggart Baillie LLP and Brodies LLP.

Bill Nixon

Non-executive Director

Bill is managing partner of Maven Capital Partners UK LLP (Maven) and has more than 35 years’ experience in banking and private equity. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and obtained an MBA from Strathclyde University in 1996. In the 1990s, Bill was head of the private equity business at Clydesdale Bank plc, a subsidiary of National Australia Bank, before joining Aberdeen Asset Management plc (Aberdeen) in 1999. In 2004 he was appointed as principal fund manager to all Aberdeen managed VCTs. In 2009, Bill and his senior colleagues led a management buy-out from Aberdeen to form Maven. He is also a director of Maven Income and Growth VCTs 4 and 6.

Keith Pickering

Independent Non-executive Director

Keith is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He is a partner at Alantra Corporate Finance, formerly Catalyst Corporate Finance, which he founded in 1998 along with two others and where he leads the construction sector team. Over the past twenty years he played a major role in the growth of Catalyst and in September 2017 the business was sold to Alantra Group, the Spanish listed mid-market investment bank. Prior to establishing Catalyst, Keith spent thirteen years at the successor firms of PwC and Deloitte, including a three year period in the Far East, operating out of Hong Kong.