team
Our members provide a range of different perspectives alongside key strategic insights that drawn upon their wide experience of working across the globe.
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS
Chairman - Dr Amir Farman Farma
Amir is the Managing Partner of Connexion Capital LLP (est. 2007), an investment advisor specialising in alternative investments. The firm has rapidly established itself as an advisor to a number of UK Local Authority Pension Funds and European family offices on investments in hedge funds, private equity funds, and direct investments. Emerging markets debt and renewable energy have been some of their areas of focus. The firm also anticipated and invested in the sub-prime
mortgage crisis.
Chairman - Dr Amir Farman Farma
Amir is the Managing Partner of Connexion Capital LLP (est. 2007), an investment advisor
specialising in alternative investments. The firm has rapidly established itself as an advisor to a number of UK Local Authority Pension Funds and European family offices on investments in hedge funds, private equity funds, and direct investments. Emerging markets debt and renewable energy have been some of their areas of focus. The firm also anticipated and invested in the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Co-founder & CEO - Peter Holland
Born and raised in Cornwall, Peter received his marketing degree from Southampton University in 2000 and moved back to Cornwall to continue his career. Peter has spent the last decade working as an inward investment and export professional for local government. He has experience assisting foreign direct investors of all sizes as they relocate and establish themselves in Cornwall, as well as in supporting Cornish businesses as they explore new markets both domestically and internationally
Co-founder & CEO - Peter Holland
Born and raised in Cornwall, Peter received his marketing degree from Southampton
University in 2000 and moved back to Cornwall to continue his career. Peter has spent the last decade working as an inward investment and export professional for local government. He has experience assisting foreign direct investors of all sizes as they relocate and establish themselves in Cornwall, as well as in supporting Cornish businesses as they explore new markets both domestically and internationally
Executive Board member - Tariq Isa
Tariq Isa an entrepreneur and investor with a successful track record in UK EdTech and biotechnology. Tariq co-founded Frog Education Limited in 1999, a digital leaning system acquired by Malaysian conglomerate YTL in 2012. Since 2015, he has invested in high-yield crop nutrient technology with a focus on open-field crops and indoor farming. Tariq is a founding partner of Starbuds, a cannabis fertilizer company utilizing advanced technology to deliver nutrients during a
Executive Board member - Tariq Isa
Tariq Isa an entrepreneur and investor with a successful track record in UK EdTech
and biotechnology. Tariq co-founded Frog Education Limited in 1999, a digital leaning system acquired by Malaysian conglomerate YTL in 2012. Since 2015, he has invested in high-yield crop nutrient technology with a focus on open-field crops and indoor farming. Tariq is a founding partner of Starbuds, a cannabis fertilizer company utilizing advanced technology to deliver nutrients during a
BOARD MEMBERS
James Suddaby
James is a Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology expert working to help pull together the entire process structure to use on the blockchain system. He has experience working with public and private organisations to help identify how new and emerging technologies, software, and process design can be applied to drive organisational development, removing friction and improving service
James Suddaby
James is a Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology expert working to help pull together
the entire process structure to use on the blockchain system. He has experience working with public and private organisations to help identify how new and emerging technologies, software, and process design can be applied to drive organisational development, removing friction and improving service
James Yarmo
James has over twenty years of experience in developing and managing residential and commercial properties. He led a US-based real estate company expansion into a multi-million-dollar corporation operating across eight states. He has a consistent track record in acquisition management, project coordination, and revenue generation, and is very experienced in leading multicultural workforces to achieve exceptional results in developing world projects.
James Yarmo
James has over twenty years of experience in developing and managing residential and commercial properties.
He led a US-based real estate company expansion into a multi-million-dollar corporation operating across eight states. He has a consistent track record in acquisition management, project coordination, and revenue generation, and is very experienced in leading multicultural workforces to achieve exceptional results in developing world projects.
Harry Ley
Harry has spent his professional career operating within Systems Finance who have active funding lines with over 100 of the UK’s leading banks and lenders, arranging highly competitive lease agreements, working capital loans, VAT funding loans, asset refinance, and hard asset finance. He is working predominantly in the commercial IT sector with some of the UK’s leading companies.
Harry Ley
Harry has spent his professional career operating within Systems Finance who
have active funding lines with over 100 of the UK’s leading banks and lenders, arranging highly competitive lease agreements, working capital loans, VAT funding loans, asset refinance, and hard asset finance. He is working predominantly in the commercial IT sector with some of the UK’s leading companies.