Marcus Love   General Partner

In the first part of my career I spent nearly 10 years in Paris working in consulting for Cap Gemini then in a start-up and in various sales roles. Then in 2005 I moved back to London and worked for 14 years in the City selling global equity research to fund managers.

I started angel investing in 2015 and built up an angel portfolio of 20 companies, building an angel syndicate along the way. We formed Love Ventures in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic and haven’t looked back since.

I love helping portfolio companies where I can, and am super excited by the growth of our first two funds and our own super team! Outside work, I enjoy sports, culture and travel. Most recently I cycled 458 miles in eastern Turkey for a charity called 1morechild.

Adrian Love   General Partner

The early part of my career was spent at The Instant Group, a high growth pioneer within the global flexible workspace sector where I focussed on enterprise sales before its acquisition by MML Capital – their digital assets have now merged with IWG Group. From 2016, I worked at Dorrington PLC, a £1.4Bn private investment company, where I was an investment manager of a £200m portfolio of assets.

During this period, I began my own entrepreneurial journey within property development and also started angel investing, building up an angel syndicate alongside my brother Marcus. Having been in business together since 2009, we co-founded Love Ventures in 2020 and enjoy using our extensive networks to help the founders across our portfolio.

Outside of the world of start-ups, you can usually find me on the sports pitch whether it’s regular five-a-side football, squash, golf or skiing. I also love an adventure and have been recruiting founders for a round the world cycle to Sydney, starting off with London to Paris in September.

Alice Knibbs   Investment Associate

Prior to Love Ventures, I spent the past 9 months as a Venture Fellow at Backed VC and Hearst Ventures. Before this, I founded a D2C data-driven consumer fashion brand after working in Management Consulting for 2 years in London and Paris. 

When I’m not obsessing over start-ups, you’ll find me battling with my love-hate relationship with Yoga, eating one too many Acai bowls and practicing my golf swing; the game that refuses to love me back.

Bill Corfield   Investment Associate

Before joining Love Ventures, I spent three years at Barclays working as an Assistant Vice President across Barclays Ventures and the Strategic Opportunities team where I helped build, invest in and run a portfolio of leading FinTech partners. Prior to that I studied Economics & Management at the University of Bristol, where I also managed a student events business and worked for a startup, Freddie’s Flowers, alongside my studies.

Outside of Love Ventures, you’ll probably find me honing my sub-par tennis serve, cover drive or parallel turns (aka complete sports bore). Whenever I get the chance, I love getting out into the countryside to live out my fantasy of climbing the Seven Summits; I’m one down so far, so I’ve got some way to go!

Rhett Hendrix   Head of Investor Relations

Just prior to joining the team at Love, I worked as Senior Investment Consultant at RISE Ventures, a London based venture brokerage, where I built out an investor network across Europe while raising funds for UK companies from Seed to Series B. The bulk of my professional career was spent as an entrepreneur / operator, building the musical instrument brand, Hendrix Drums.

I started the company in 2010 and grew it into a globally distributed brand with a presence in the US, UK, Asia, and Europe, and led it through to a successful acquisition and exit in 2019.

I also have experience as a technical analysis quant day trader, though with my extroverted personality, I soon realised I much preferred collaborating with people face to face as opposed to spending my days in front of candlestick charts.

Andrew Hynard   Senior Advisor

Andrew is a chartered surveyor and spent the majority of his career in leadership positions within Capital Markets at the International Real Estate Advisor JLL, prior to being appointed Deputy Chairman of its UK business. In 2016 he joined the Howard de Walden Estate (HdWE) as Chief Executive. HdWE is a privately held company which owns property with a value of more than £4Bn in London’s Marylebone. He retired from HdWE in early 2021.

Andrew is also a former Chairman of the Investment Property Forum and is current President of OBREMS, the alumni society for former Oxford Brookes students working in property. He also chairs the advisory board to Clipstone Investment Management and is a Trustee of various charitable bodies including The University College of Estate Management, The Tim Henman Foundation and The Story of Christmas.

John Lunn   FinTech Advisor

John is an experienced technology and FinTech entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience working in financial services, commerce enablement, e-payments, data, security and infrastructure. John was the director of technology for six years at CyberSource, the world’s first payment service provider, which was sold to Visa for $2Bn in 2010. He was also involved with Passmark Security which was sold to RSA Security in 2006.

In 2006, John joined PayPal as one of the first team members in the UK (now 2,000+), where he helped to orchestrate the purchase of Braintree by PayPal. Then in 2016, John helped to launch PayPal Ventures, the venture capital arm of PayPal, which quickly became one of the most active FinTech investors in Silicon Valley. John is now founder and CEO of Gr4vy, the cloud payment orchestration platform, based in California

Jules Pancholi   Venture Advisor

Jules is an experienced technology and marketing entrepreneur with circa 20+ years of experience working in finance, SaaS, search engine optimisation, digital media sales, business strategy and start-ups. In 2000, after six years of working as a trader within Credit Suisse’s FX/Commodities division, Jules became COO of Dooyoo.com.

In 2001, Jules then became a founding board member of travel website, Skyscanner. He was part of an executive team that oversaw significant growth and in 2007 became a non-executive director until the sale to Ctrip for circa £1.4Bn in 2016. In 2001, Jules co-founded Nitro Ventures to curate and manage a portfolio of digital properties, to invest in different levels in other companies. As part of Nitro Ventures, Jules is a founder and executive chairman of Nitro Digital Limited, an independent digital agency.

His other ventures include Nixxie Limited, a US-focussed advertising technology business, where he is Chairman; Estimo Technologies Limited (a B2B SaaS workflow solution); Nitro Property Limited (a property portfolio and development opportunity business) and a number of other ventures. Jules is a serial entrepreneur and brings a wealth of experience as an advisor. He currently holds several Non-Executive Director and leadership roles including at Oritain, Ten Group, BorrowMyDoggy and easyStorage amongst others.

Kelly Ducourty   ConsumerTech Advisor

Kelly has 20+ years experience working in global enterprise sales, service delivery, XaaS and IT transformation. In 1998, Kelly started her career at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where she assumed increasing roles of responsibility, notably setting up and leading the strategic account organisation to achieve double digit growth on a multibillion-dollar target. In 2018, she became the senior vice president, worldwide sales excellence based in Palo Alto, California, accountable for all global sales functions within HPE and with revenues of circa $25Bn.

In 2019, Kelly moved to Google, where she is currently Vice President of the Cloud Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and operations business, enabling the hyper growth of the business, as well as transforming the sales force. Kelly also serves on the board of Fortinet, a market leading cybersecurity company listed on the Nasdaq, with revenues of circa $2Bn.

Rob Hamilton  PropTech Advisor

In 1999, Rob founded The Instant Group, a high growth company and pioneer within the global flexible workspace sector that employs 250 people in eleven cities around the world. He grew the business as founder and CEO until stepping down in 2011 and selling a significant stake to MML Capital in 2012, while becoming a non-executive director. He sold the remainder in a secondary buyout to Bowmark Capital in 2018.

In 2014, Rob co-founded Ride25, a cycling adventure that cycles the world over your lifetime, which has raised money for the charity 1moreChild. He is an experienced angel investor and holds several non-executive director roles. In April 2021, he was appointed Chairman of Modo25, the digital marketing firm.