WHEB Venture Partners LLP

WHEB Venture Partners LLP, our sister company, are leaders
in European cleantech venture capital

  • WHEB Partnership created in 1995 as pioneering cleantech corporate finance advisory firm
  • WHEB Ventures created in 2003 to launch Europe’s first specialist cleantech venture capital fund
  • WHEB Ventures now has assets under management of £125m across two funds and a team of nine investment professionals across two offices in London and Munich, including:

James McNaught-Davis

James McNaught-Davis

  • MA from Cambridge and MBA from Wharton Business School
  • Originally investment banking with Schroders & Merrill Lynch &
    then responsible for M&A at Misys plc, helping grow the business from £50m to £1bn in revenues
  • 10 years VC at partner level with Warburg Pincus and Advent
Dr Rob Wylie

Dr Rob Wylie

  • MA and PhD in chemistry from Cambridge, post doc at Geneva University
  • 10 years in Shell’s agrochemical business
  • 20 years cleantech experience with Rothschilds, KPMG and WHEB including 5 as VC investor
  • Active participant in numerous Government and university advisory boards
Kim Heyworth

Kim Heyworth

  • Economist with an MA from Trinity College Dublin
  • 20 years relevant cleantech experience in:
    • KPMG Consulting - global chairman of Strategic Services and Environmental Practices
    • WHEB co-founder in 1995
  • Experienced Government and industry board advisor including Waste Recycling Group Plc, one the UK’s largest waste companies
Ben Goldsmith

Ben Goldsmith

  • Began work with Hargreave-Hale, a London-based private client brokerage firm
  • 2 years leading a group of private investors backing clean technology businesses at an early-stage
  • Co-founded WHEB Ventures with Rob and Kim in 2002
  • Speaks French and Spanish
Jorg Sperling

Jörg Sperling

  • Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering – University of Aachen, Germany. Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories (New Jersey USA) and at Israel’s Institute of Technology (Technion)
  • 8 years VC experience; 6 years in Silicon Valley (Infineon Ventures and Ridgewood Capital), 2 years in Germany as cleantech focused venture partner at Target Partners, Munich
  • Vice President of Sales at ZMD AG