Andre is an entrepreneur and private investor with a record of building and leading fast growing businesses.

He is the Founder of the Good Governance Group, a leading international strategic advisory firm. Previously he built and lead Kroll’s Africa & Natural Resources Division out of London.

Andre is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa.

Sir Richard Paniguian

Executive Chairman, C5 Holdings

From 1971, he pursued an international career in BP, leading teams in marketing, oil trading, capital markets and shipping. Latterly he was Group Vice President for Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East and Africa. From 2008, he was Head of the UK Government’s Defence and Security Organisation, where he played a crucial role in developing UK defence and cyber exports.

He joined C5 in 2015. He has an MBA from INSEAD. He was awarded the CBE in 2007 for services to business and knighted in 2014 for services to UK Defence and Security.

Daniel Freeman

Chief Investment Officer

Daniel has over 16 years of public and private investment experience across EMEA and Asia, where he allocated capital on behalf of Deutsche Bank, Eton Park International LLP, Nomura, and Lehman Brothers. His areas of sector expertise include telecommunications, technology and financial services.

Daniel holds an AB in East Asian Studies (magna cum laude) from Princeton University and received an MBA (Distinction) from Harvard Business School.

Marcos Battisti

Partner and Head of C5 Cloud Partners

Marcos has been investing in technology venture and growth equity since the late 90s. He most recently held the position of Managing Director for Western Europe and Israel at Intel Capital, where he served as a member of the firm's Investment Committee.

He has backed and successfully exited companies such as Amplidata in Belgium, Aldebaran in France, Anobit in Israel and Azure Solution in the UK, amongst others. He most recently sat on the Board of Directors of VOSS (UK), Adaptive Mobile Security (Ireland) and Sigfox (France). Marcos was also a member of the Venture Capital Committee of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.

Robert Quirke

Chief Financial Officer

Robert Quirke is the Chief Financial Officer of C5 Capital. He joined C5 Capital from African Century, a private equity investor based out of London which focused on investments in Africa, Robert was the head of finance and treasury. In addition he was a Board Member of portfolio company African Century Leasing.

Prior to Robert joining African Century, he had a variety of finance roles at Credit Suisse, Investec and the Royal Bank of Canada.

Robert is a Chartered Accountant having qualified with KPMG.

Marlène Metgé

Head of Fund Operations

Marlène has over fifteen years of international experience within the investment fund industry in Luxembourg, Berlin and London and was instrumental in setting up and leading C5 Fund Operations since 2014.

Before that she oversaw the investment operations and legal matters of Point Nine Capital / Team Europe, a Berlin based venture capital fund / incubator.

Previously she was a manager at the Luxembourg office of leading US private equity firm Carlyle, where she established the fund administration unit in Luxembourg for Carlyle European buy-out and venture capital funds.

She is fluent in German, French and English.

Paul Owsianowski

Partner

Paul is a Partner at C5. He was involved in the sourcing and execution and is actively working with C5’s investments in Omada, BalaBit and Metrasens.

Prior to C5, he was an investment banking professional at Evercore Partners in their M&A team, where he advised corporates and private equity firms on transactions and strategy. Transactions include the proposed merger between BAE and EADS, Cobham’s disposal of its safety equipment unit ARC systems to private equity firm J.F. Lehman, the sale of Optos to Nikon and the acquisition of Aesica by Consort Medical.

Endre A. Sagi

Investment Professional

Endre is an investment professional at C5 Capital, bringing significant investment and technology expertise to the investment team.

Previously he has worked as an investment banking professional in various roles, most recently as M&A Manager at KPMG Corporate Finance, where he advised clients on executing M&A transactions in the Technology and Industrials sectors. His areas of technology expertise include cyber security, big data and cloud computing infrastructure, capital markets financial technology and emerging automotive technologies.

Endre holds an Engineering Degree in Computer Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and an MBA from London Business School.

Alexander Richard Newman

Deputy Chair, IC

Alex is an experienced investor and business executive. After training at the London Metal Exchange and Comex, he set up and ran international sales and hedging operations for Antofagasta Minerals, where he was Corporate Finance Director, and then CFO.

He studied at the Royal Military College of Science, and later lectured on defense procurement to the UK Army Staff Course. He has also provided defense procurement advice to the British and American governments.