From City, to VC, to CEO of Plc to Exit

Jay Patel is an experienced commercial executive with over 25 years’ experience in the TMT sectors through various operational, investment and advisory roles. Jay enjoys working with fast growing technology businesses and has served as both an executive and non-executive director on the boards of both private and public companies over the last 20 years with international experience across the UK, India, Africa and the US. Currently the CEO of IMImobile Plc, a company Jay helped start in 2003 and which he led to the listing of in 2014. They’ve just been acquired by Cisco. Previously, Jay was a co-founder of venture capital firm Spark Ventures plc, which had £250 million under-management in various public and private funds. Jay has led a number of successful investments, restructurings and exits in the technology sector across digital media and publishing, B2B software and B2C eCommerce.