Trevor Hope

Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, Strategic Equity, Gresham House Ventures

2021 - Current

Gresham House Ventures seeks to support exciting UK businesses with bold ambitions for the future, by providing transformational growth capital and expertise to accelerate business potential.

Director

2023

Non Executive Director

2019

Active Navigation is a data privacy and governance software company. Its product suite enables enterprises and government entities to map, clean, classify, quarantine and delete redundant, obsolete and trivial data. Hundreds of companies and government agencies trust Active Navigation to help them control sensitive data and support compliance with various data privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR. Active Navigation Inc. is headquartered in Virginia and has offices in Europe and Australia.

Investment Committee Member

2019

Europe’s leading early-stage tech for good VC. BGV backs ambitious founders using technology to tackle big social and environmental problems that aim to radically improve millions of lives.

Partner

2016 - 2021

Mobeus Equity Partners is a leading provider of finance to SMEs. Mobeus invests between £2m and £15m in UK headquartered businesses across all sectors. Trevor led Mobeus' growth capital investment team.

Non Executive Director

2016 - 2020

Preservica is a world leader in Digital Preservation software and services. Our SaaS (cloud hosted) and on premise active preservation solutions are used by leading companies, government organizations, archives, libraries and museums across 4 continents to safeguard and share valuable digital content, collections and electronic records for decades to come.

Governor - Court of Governors / Chair of the Finance & Property Committee

2009 - 2019

With over 17,000 full time students and turnover of £200m the University of Westminster (est in 1838) provides high quality higher education and research in both national and international contexts for the intellectual, social and professional development of the individual and for the economic and cultural enrichment of London and the wider communities. 96% are progressing from state education.

Non Executive Director

2015 - 2016

D3O is a specialist provider of impact protection solutions & materials. The company manufactures and licenses a unique patented material, which combines enhanced chemistry and engineering to produce a high performing shock absorption system. The D3O material in its raw state flows freely when moved slowly, but on shock, locks together to absorb and disperse energy, before instantly returning to its flexible state. This unique characteristic provides enhanced protection, while providing a versatile and flexible material that can be manufactured for a host of impact protective applications. D3O is a registered trademark and is patented with worldwide coverage.

Non Executive Director

2014 - 2016

MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20Bn European eyewear market via its online brands Glasses Direct & MyOptique (prescription glasses), Sunglasses Shop (sunglasses) and Lens On (contact lenses). The company sells a pair of eyewear online every 30 seconds, shipping over 2,000 orders a day via 10 international local language sites. Myoptique was sold to Essilor International S.A in August 2016

Non Executive Director

2014 - 2016

Big Data Partnership is the leading EMEA-based big data specialist solution provider. Offering a combination of big data engineering, data science, certified training services and support. Big Data Partnership helps organisations to identify use cases to address their big data challenges and more importantly realise value from it. This encompasses end-to-end consultancy from data strategy, technology enablement and application of data science techniques. Big Data Partnership consultants are certified industry experts who have worked extensively with Big Data technologies and toolsets including the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Cassandra and other NoSQL databases, Apache Spark and search technologies including Elasticsearch to provide scalable and reliable data solutions. Big Data Partnership was sold to Fortune 1000 company Teradata Inc in July 2016