Restoration Partners, the London-based boutique technology bank, has appointed a new chief for its investor relations program.
Jonathan Soar has more than 20 years’ experience in IT within the banking sector, where he has worked as an information and communications technology consultant, mentor and executive coach. Restoration Partners hopes to use Soar’s hands-on experience of sales and finance management to lead its new project, Restoration Alpha Angels, a database set up to provide investor contacts with heavily screened, high-quality investments from within Restoration Partners’ client base.
‘Restoration Partners commands a unique position in the UK technology sector, which gives us privileged access to some of the UK’s most exciting wealth-creating opportunities,’ says Soar. ‘I am delighted to be leading the firm’s Alpha Angels and Capital Club as we work to combine our clients’ entrepreneurial zeal with our enterprise investment scheme investors’ appetite for wealth creation.’
Prior to Restoration Partners, Soar, a graduate of London’s City University, was deputy master at the Information Technologists’ Company, a non-profit organization that works to promote the IT industry.
Welcoming Soar to the boutique technology bank, Ken Olisa, chairman of Restoration Partners, says in a press statement: ‘Although the world appears to be in existential crisis, there has never been a better time to invest in IT – especially in the UK. Technologies like smartphones, tablets, the cloud, big data, Facebook, Twitter and mobile banking are converging to drive the next generation of wealth creation. Britain’s tech entrepreneurs don’t lack confidence or opportunity ‒ but they do lack capital. Jonathan’s appointment is our latest move to solve this for our clients.’
