Our Team

The team behind Veles Capital

A firm built on decades of operating experience — leaders who have scaled, transformed and turned around some of the world's best-known technology and telecoms businesses, now working for ambitious UK, European and US companies.

25+ years at the top table

Experience earned where it counts — now in your corner.

Veles Capital is founded on more than 25 years of CXO-level experience across telecommunications, IT, media, healthcare and retail — from a start in engineering and a partnership at KPMG leading consulting across Europe and the Middle East.

That track record runs through senior leadership at Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, a global director role at Vodafone, and the chief-executive seat at Telefónica Deutschland (O2 Germany).

It's the same operator's instinct — knowing what it really takes to scale, restructure and grow — that we now bring to every business we work with.

Track Record

At a glance

The experience behind the firm

Former CEO, Telefónica Deutschland (O2). Senior leadership at Compaq, HP, Vodafone & KPMG. Group COO experience and multiple board chair roles.

CompaqHewlett-PackardVodafoneO2TelefónicaKPMG
Telefónica Deutschland (O2)

A scaling story, told in numbers

Led from the chief-executive seat — the kind of structural growth Veles Capital now helps other businesses pursue.

€3bn→€14bn
Market capitalisation growth under our founder's leadership
0
Customer connections reached
#1
O2 made the leading consumer brand in Germany
2012
Led one of Europe's largest IPOs of the year
Leadership

The people behind the work

A senior, hands-on team — built to grow as we take on more of the businesses we believe in.

Founder & Managing Partner

Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland (O2), with senior leadership across Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Vodafone and KPMG — 25+ years scaling, restructuring and growing businesses at the highest level.

Advisory & Associates

We bring in specialist operators, advisors and associates engagement-by-engagement — matching the right experience to each client's situation.

We're growing

As Veles Capital expands, we're adding experienced partners and operators to the team. If you've scaled or turned around businesses and want to do it again, get in touch.

Career

The journey

KPMG

Partner, leading consulting across Europe & the Middle East.

Compaq & HP

Senior leadership roles in global technology.

Vodafone

Global Director (from 2004).

Telefónica / O2

CEO of Telefónica Deutschland — scaling, IPO and consolidation.

Group COO

International group operating leadership at the highest level.

Veles Capital

Founder & director — putting decades of operating experience to work for others.

Philosophy

"Great companies are built on structure as much as vision. We help leaders build both."

Veles Capital exists to do for other businesses what our team spent its careers doing inside large organisations: find the constraints holding growth back, redesign the structure beneath the ambition, and stay in the room until the change is real.

Where the opportunity is compelling, that conviction extends to investment — backing select projects with capital as well as counsel.

Work with us

Bring senior, hands-on experience into your business.

Whether you're scaling, raising or rebuilding, start with a direct conversation.

Get in touch