Meet The Team

Anthony Francis

Partner

Anthony has completed over 25 private equity transactions. He has a strong track record having achieved several successful exits.

Outside of private equity, Anthony was a Director of ContactEngine, a high growth software start-up that grew rapidly and successfully exited to NICE (NASDAQ: NICE). This provided him with an owner manager's perspective of raising capital.

Anthony qualified as a chartered accountant at Ernst and Young, working in their audit and financial due diligence teams for over four years at the firm.

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Richard Morrison

Partner

Richard has completed over 15 transactions in the last 6 years. He has a high level of expertise investing in the technology sector.

During his career, Richard gained experience in a number of technology sub-sectors including mobility software, with Creative Cark Park and YourParkingSpace, and compliance and business services, with Expolink and Atech.

Prior to Pelican, Richard worked at Rockpool Investments, and previously spent 2 years working in corporate finance at investment banking advisors Lincoln International.

Richard qualified as a chartered accountant with PwC after three years in the firm’s audit team.

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Elliot Vickerstaff

Investment Manager

Elliot joined Pelican in March 2023 as a member of the investment team. Since joining, Elliot has worked on a number of new opportunities and has helped to develop the firms origination strategy.

At Pelican, Elliot is responsible for origination, execution, and portfolio management.

Prior to Pelican Elliot spent 4 years at BGF, a lower mid-market private equity firm where he worked on 7 transactions within B2B software, technology services, cyber security, and eCommerce. Elliot also spent time at a VC fund which specialised in B2B software and marketplace businesses.

Elliot has also founded an eCommerce business, and is an alumni of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation ("NEF"). He has a 1st class degree in Entrepreneurial Business Management from Newcastle Business School.

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Jonty Hogg

Investment Manager

Jonty joined Pelican in November 2022 as a member of the investment team. Since joining he has worked on the ECA International investment and helping to complete three bolt on acquisitions with Atech.

Jonty is responsible for origination and execution as well as the portfolio management of ECA International and Atech.

Prior to Pelican, Jonty spent two years working in a corporate finance role for Ardonagh Specialty and was involved in several successful acquisitions and refinancing processes. He was a chartered accountant at EY after spending three years in the firm’s audit team. He also holds a 1st class Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Leeds.

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Jonathan Jacoby

Investment Executive

Jonathan joined Pelican in 2024 as a member of the investment team.

Prior to joining Pelican, Jonathan spent 5 years at Fairgrove Partners, a boutique strategic advisory firm serving primarily mid-market UK PE funds and their portfolio companies, by providing commercial due diligence and growth strategy consulting support.

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Paul Graves

CTO

Paul has been helping organisations build great technology solutions for over 15 years.

Working with a range of clients from start-ups to banks, Paul has built high performing engineering teams for green and brown-field projects, including at ContactEngine where he worked alongside Anthony.

From digging down into code, to architecting solutions, to running complex projects, Paul has a wealth of experience in all things tech.

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