Andre Pienaar

Managing Partner

Andre is a Managing Partner and the Founder of C5, a specialist technology investment group focused on cybersecurity, cloud computing and big data analytics with offices in Washington, London, Luxembourg and Bahrain. Andre serves on the boards of several cybersecurity companies including the Haven Group in Luxembourg, ITC Security in London and Omada in Copenhagen.

Mr Pienaar started his career in Kroll Inc where he became the youngest managing director until the successful sale of the company to Marsh Mclennan. In 2004 Andre founded G3, an international consulting firm that advises global companies and international law firms on cybersecurity. He sold G3 in 2011 to Europe’s leading technology investment holding company.

Andre advised the 6th Duke of Westminster on the establishment of the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) in the United Kingdom as a state of the art centre for the rehabilitation of British military veterans.

Mr Pienaar is a member of the U.S. Government’s Institute of Peace (USIP) International Advisory Council and a Director of the PeaceTech Lab in Washington DC. He is a member of the National Council on White House History, an US not for profit that is the custodian of the White House, its art and history, as well as being a Director of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and a trustee of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, a British charity focused on wildlife conservation.

Andre is a lawyer and an expert on cyber law and cybercrime.

Daniel Freeman

Managing Partner

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

Managing Partner

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.

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

Chairman, 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.