Our Team
We are an experienced team and the people that you deal with are the decision makers. We want to share our ambition with our management teams and succeed together.
Alex co-founded Chiltern Capital. He has a background in strategic, financial and operational management, having previously been a COO and CFO, and has led a management buy-in with backing from private equity. Prior to this he was CFO of an AIM listed training company, creating value through a combination of organic growth and targeted acquisition, prior to leading its successful sale to Pearson.
He has extensive experience of working with entrepreneurs and teams to grow and develop their businesses.
Alex qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PwC.
He has a keen interest in food (cooking and eating), and a love of the outdoors.
Tel: 0203 637 5622
Email: alex.sheffield@chilterncapital.co.uk
Tom co-founded Chiltern Capital with Alex Sheffield in 2015 and is a member of the Investment Committee. Tom focuses on developing the firm’s origination activities and completing new investments and has been significantly involved in all of the firms deals to date. He has extensive experience in the business services and technology sectors.
Prior to Chiltern Capital, Tom was a director at Livingstone Partners.
Tom is an avid follower of Gloucester Rugby Club.
Tel: 0203 637 5623
Email: tom.phipps@chilterncapital.co.uk
Ryan has been involved in private equity for more than two decades. Most recently, he founded International Schools Partnership (ISP) with private equity backing, and is currently Deputy Chairman. Prior to ISP, Ryan was CEO of World Class Learning. Based on his experience as Chairman of Schools Standards and Performance for disadvantaged state schools, he has written three respected national policy papers on educational disadvantage and children in care.
He was previously a founder and Managing Partner of Sovereign Capital.
He is a long-suffering fan of Newcastle United Football Club and in his spare time is a keen scuba diver and skier.
Email: ryan.robson@chilterncapital.co.uk
Ed originates and leads new investments and is a member of the Investment Committee. Ed joined Chiltern in 2019 after spending eight years at Endless LLP where he focused on transformational investments across a range of sectors, including business services, technology, engineering and industrials in the UK and overseas. Prior to Endless, Ed qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG.
Outside of work, Ed’s life currently revolves around the chaos of his young family. His interests include keeping fit, all things sporty and supporting Wasps RFC.
Tel: 0203 637 5627
Email: ed.ransome@chilterncapital.co.uk
Thomas Holroyd
Investment Director
Thomas joined Chiltern Capital in 2018. He was previously a Vice President at Vitruvian Partners, where he focused on investments in the financial services, consumer services and technology sectors.
Prior to Vitruvian, Thomas was an Assistant Director at Livingstone Partners where he advised on transactions in the technology, leisure and media sectors. He is a Chartered Accountant having qualified at PwC.
Thomas is an avid traveller having visited almost 40 countries on five continents, and particularly enjoys the search for remote beaches on which to enjoy a good book.
Tel: 0203 637 5625
Email: thomas.holroyd@chilterncapital.co.uk
Mark Coronato
Investment Manager
Mark joined Chiltern Capital in 2019. He was previously an Associate at Intermediate Capital Group where he focused on providing equity and subordinated debt to mid-market companies across a broad range of sectors.
He began his career at Citigroup in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking team.
Away from the office, Mark enjoys avoiding being stationary. He is an accredited track cyclist, avid road cyclist and enthusiastic triathlete (from sprint to Ironman). Partial to an adventure, in 2016 he was part of a 2 man team to circumnavigate Palawan, a provincial island in the Philippines, by sea kayak. He is a volunteer member of the Governing Body of the Harris Academy Tottenham.
Tel: 0203 637 5626
Email: mark.coronato@chilterncapital.co.uk
Tristan Evans
Investment Manager
Tristan joined Chiltern Capital in 2019. He was previously in the investment team at Rockpool Investments where he focused on new investments and portfolio management, working with companies across a range of sectors including technology, education and business services.
Prior to Rockpool, Tristan worked at RBS and began his career at EY where he also obtained his chartered accountancy qualification. Outside of work, Tristan has a keen interest in all sports (mainly rugby) and is a keen traveller having grown up in Zambia.
Tel: 0203 637 5624
Email: tristan.evans@chilterncapital.co.uk
Jonathan joined Chiltern Capital in 2018. He was previously a Director in the Principal Investments team at Barclays. Jonathan began his career with Barclays Ventures where he worked on the origination and execution of smaller mid-market investments. In recent years, he focused on the execution of debt-equity swaps arising from restructuring situations, often working alongside other institutional shareholders.
He has new investment and portfolio management experience having worked with the boards of more than 25 portfolio companies across a range of sectors.
Tel: 07709 450 727
Email: jonathan.marlow@chilterncapital.co.uk
