Martin Glen
Investment Director at GripAble
Martin Glen
Investment Director at GripAble
Greater London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Director
2022 - Current
Gripable is developing a digital platform for rehabilitation, gamifying exercises with novel devices, gathering data for monitoring and optimising treatment, helping patients, service providers and healthcare payors by increasing efficiency and generating superior outcomes.
Investment Director
2016
Parkwalk Advisors (www.parkwalkadvisors.com) is a leading technology growth EIS investment manager. We focus on UK university spin-out companies, largely in knowledge intensive, 'hard' science. Meet and engage with some amazing people and their brilliant ideas that will hopefully continue to support UK plc and change the world through the next few decades.
Non Executive Director
2021
Director
2017
Director
2017
Non Executive Director
2021 - 2024
Partner
2014 - 2015
European equity portfolio management, especially Industrials, and the IPO market in a special situations fund
Analyst/Portfolio Manager
2005 - 2014
Nine years managing the deal desk at Meditor. Analysing IPOs and follow-on offerings across all sectors and all geographies from a fundamental perspective. Dealing in chosen investments and forming excellent relationships with syndicate/ECM departments at counterparties. Involved in the process from pre-IPO / pilot fishing all the way to aftermarket trading.
Analyst/sales
2003 - 2005
An attempt at sales, firstly specialist sales for UK & European pharmaceutical analysts and then a more generalised salesman for the European small and midcap product. Not very successful though it made me much more tolerant of those who do sell!
Analyst
2000 - 2003
Senior analyst running a team that covered small and midcap European pharmaceutical companies. Extensive marketing of both companies and ideas to fund managers globally.
Education
B.A. (Hons)
1983 - 1987