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Ferovinum announces £17.5 million series A funding round for investment in platform development. Read more.

A transformational tool for the wine and spirits industry

Ferovinum is a platform that uses technology to provide wine & spirit producers, brands, distributors and merchants with financing and supply chain services previously reserved for large commodity producers and traders.

We take no commercial position on transactions

Ferovinum is not a broker or trader, there's no speculative element to our commitment and the commercial relationships remain with our clients and their buyers / sellers.

TEAM
We're a team of finance specialists, technologists and industry insiders with a passion for wine & spirits

Mitchel Fowler

Founder & CEO

Originally from the Hunter Valley, Mitch has over 14 years structured finance and investment banking experience focusing on commodity supply chain financing solutions, hedging and project finance.

Daniel Gibney

Founder & CFO

An owner of several hospitality venues, Dan has over 15 years corporate finance and debt advisory experience helping companies and governments raise, re-organise and restructure debt.

Jos White

Board Member

Jos is an entrepreneur turned investor and currently a partner at Notion Capital, a venture capital firm invested in Ferovinum focused on B2B SaaS/Cloud. He co-founded, built and exited three businesses including  MessageLabs was acquired by Symantec in 2008 for $700m.

Daniel Cobley

Board Member

Dan spent 8 years at Google, running European marketing and then the $5Bn UK and Ireland business.  He is the co-founder of ClearScore (20 million users) and Salary Finance (5 million reach), and is an investor, advisor and board member to Ferovinum.

Gregor Mathieson

Director of Spirits

Gregor was previously co-founder of Edinburgh Whisky - an award-winning boutique independent bottler – and The Edinburgh Distillery company, which were both exited to a large privately-owned group at the end of 2019.

Kirsten Polyansky

Director of Americas and CLO

Kirsten’s career has spanned 20 years of private practice, industry and investment banking focused on commodities and global markets businesses. She joins us from international law firm Reed Smith, where she served as a partner in the Energy and Natural Resources group.

Ho Yin Lai

Chief Technology Officer

Ho Yin was previously technology director at Macquarie, leading the evolution of their Commodities and Global Markets (CGM) group’s risk platform managing assets in excess of £5bn across multiple trading businesses.

Zhi Huang

Chief Product Officer

Zhi was previously VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, where he spearheaded their algorithmic trading platforms and derivative pricing systems for global trading desks. He then went on to co-found tech company Gamma Innovations which was sold to Animoca Brands before he joined Ferovinum to lead product development.

Alex Shaw

Chief Operating Officer

Formerly Head of Product Development & Research at the London Metal Exchange. Alex bring years of deep experience from physical commodity supply chains, financial markets, product design and risk management.

Edward Sainsbery

Chief Risk Officer

Previously Director of Structured Commodities Origination at ICBC Standard Bank, Edward leads the overall risk management of Ferovinum, ensuring robust, scalable controls and processes are in place.

Max Noble

Head of Growth

Max is a qualified accountant from BDO who has worked in growth roles for a number of fintech investment and lending platforms that have distributed £billions across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

James Moorhouse

Head of Business Development

James brings deep spirits experience, having covered the sector as an analyst at BNP Paribas. He combines this with experience scaling a FinTech startup, and time in PwC's M&A Advisory division to fuel Ferovinum’s growth.

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