Christopher Tucker

Christopher has worked for some of the leading investment banks in Europe and is now a corporate finance and strategy adviser to growing technology companies from around the world. He has over fifteen years’ experience of capital markets and over ten as a corporate finance and strategy adviser. His experience includes deal origination, strategic advisory services, strategy development, strategic reviews, investment analysis, raising finance (seed round to IPO), IPOs, developing strategic alliances, transaction support, and investor communications. He has a strong technology sector background and extensive international experience.

Christopher is currently the CEO of Tucker & Partners / T&P Ventures, a management consultancy firm he founded to provide advisory and business development services to growing companies in the telecom and technology sectors. The firm now has over 15 associates in Europe, the USA and China, many with C-level experience in Fortune 500 companies, or director / vice president level experience in investment banking, management consulting, or professional services. Christopher’s clients have included technology companies, venture capital firms, technology incubators, corporate finance firms, law firms, entrepreneurs, economic development agencies, and national and international trade organisations. Christopher is also a senior adviser to a large City law firm with one of the leading technology practices in Europe.

Since March 2011, Tucker & Partners has represented the China Guanghua Science & Technology Foundation on an exclusive basis in Europe for all matters relating to technology transfer and the commercialisation of technology. China Guanghua Science & Technology Foundation is a top ten, not-for-profit organisation in China run by the committee of Communist Youth League of China – an organisation out of which China draws many of its leaders. Christopher has initiated and facilitated collaboration between the Foundation and the UK’s Science & Technology Facilities Council, a government agency which spends about £600 million per annum, leading science and innovation centres in the UK, and a leading British University, as well as promoting the Foundation at the highest levels of government.

Christopher is a non-executive director of Sphere Resources, a resources company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada, and Condor Wind Energy, one of the world’s leading two-bladed wind turbine companies. He also served for over three years on the investment committee of Ouest Ventures, a French venture capital firm specialising in the technology sector.

Prior to founding Tucker & Partners, Christopher had spent most of his career in investment banking, where he rapidly established his reputation as a leading (“rated”) analyst in the telecommunications and technology sectors, and subsequently held director / vice president level roles in investment research or corporate finance at Kleinwort Benson, Banque Indosuez, Banque Paribas, and WestLB. During the 1990s, he worked on most of the major IPOs and secondary offerings in the telecoms sector in Europe. While at Banque Indosuez, he played a key role in securing the bank’s first UK privatization mandate, and subsequently, at Banque Paribas, was the lead analyst for the IPO of France Telecom, for which the bank was global coordinator and adviser to the French Treasury. Christopher spent his early career in the Central Electricity Generating Board, the UK’s nationalised electricity utility, initially as a physicist and subsequently as a strategist at the company’s headquarters.

Christopher has an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from London University. He is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, a Member of the Institute of Consulting, a Chartered Engineer, and a Chartered Physicist.