VPC Specialty Lending adds investment experts to board
VPC Specialty Lending Investments has appointed two investment veterans as non-executive directors.
The alternative finance-focused investment trust has named Nick Campsie and Martin Rigby as new board members, effective from 12 June 2024, after the firm’s annual general meeting.
Campsie has extensive experience in both public and private asset investment, both as an investment manager and manager of managers. As global head of illiquid investments for Eton Park Capital Management he was responsible for the winding down of a significant portfolio of private assets between 2012 and 2019.
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He also serves as the chairman of the Legal Aid Agency, is a non-executive director of HM Prisons and Probation Service and is an independent member of the London Policing Board.
Rigby has over 35 years’ experience as a venture investor and has been involved in the realisation of the assets of 14 funds.
He has backed growth technology businesses including UK listed digital payments business Bango, where he was a non-executive director for 12 years until 2019.
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He is chair of the FSE Group, a UK-based provider of equity and debt funding to high-growth businesses, and managing director of ET Capital, a venture fund manager based in Cambridge.
Campsie and Rigby will also serve as members of the firm’s audit and valuation and management engagement committees.
VPC’s latest annual report revealed a strong performance in its asset-backed lending portfolio that was partially offset by “setbacks” in its equity holdings in 2023.
