Tusker Mattresses Limited has joined Ibuka, Nairobi Securities Exchange's (NSE) premium incubation and acceleration program for
high growth companies in Kenya.
Mantri is to join the healthcare investment banking group and advise life sciences companies while Scansaroli is to join the equity capital markets group and focus on
high growth companies across the healthcare sector.
John Waddell was a solicitor and has extensive experience of driving value and leading early stage
high growth companies to successful exit.
The company has worked with more than 200
high growth companies over almost two decades, helping more than 20 achieve IPOs and others raise billions in private investor funding.
Thirty-eight percent of
high growth companies were classed as 'formalising' or 'integrating', but only 17% of low growth fell into those categories.
She said: "The reason we launched the Business Growth Network was to offer insight to some of the
high growth companies we have worked with through our Business Ready programme.
Before specialising in life sciences and technology companies, she spent over fifteen years in professional service accounting firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was dedicated to
high growth companies in multiple industries, including the pharmaceutical industry.
He has since built an investment firm that invests in global value-oriented,
high growth companies. In 2016 and 2017, Phoenician generated net returns of 40.8 per cent and 33.0 per cent, respectively, versus 12.0 per cent and 21.8 per cent for the S&P 500 TR.
Mattacchione has more than 30 years of experience in financial leadership positions with
high growth companies across the life sciences tools, biopharmaceutical, chemicals and technology sectors.
At TEDCO, we help transform innovative life science and technology businesses into
high growth companies,said George Davis, TEDCO's CEO.
Wales has the second-lowest number of
high growth companies at 77, though this clears the region with the lowest number, Northern Ireland, by a wide margin - it has just 12 high-growth companies.