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About us
Our mission is to make it easy for more people to invest in the world around us
Our vision is a world where we all have better opportunities to invest in what we care about
Meet the team
We are an international and diverse team with senior experience in all elements of helping investors access the potential benefits of investing in real assets. Our strengths range from legal structuring, regulatory compliance and investor relations, to full-stack engineering, product, design, brand and research.
Rob Lamb
Co-Founder
Rob is a co-founder of Hedgehog. He is a previous digital entrepreneur and spent the first 15 years of his career in institutional private equity, including a decade with Partners Group. Rob is also a Non-Executive Director of the Development Bank of Wales and Expectation State, a private consultancy focused on positive change through social impact investment in emerging states.
Michael Ward
Co-Founder
Michael is a co-founder of Hedgehog. Michael started his career in the investment banking team at Goldman Sachs. Following this he was an investor at an equity long/short hedge fund, where he witnessed the increasing involvement of individual investors in traditional financial markets.
Vanessa Murphy
Head of Compliance
Vanessa has more than 25 years experience in financial services, most of which has been spent in compliance roles, across both public and private markets. Vanessa’s career to date has included time at Octopus Investments, Newton Investment Management, M&G and the Financial Services Authority.
Django Shelton
Head of Engineering
Django was Hedgehog's first Senior Engineer and came on board with 8 years industry experience. Previously, Django worked as a full stack engineer at Bulb and IBM where he helped with delivering innovative experiences for clients in government, banking, and consulting.
Gareth Morgan
Head of Finance and Risk
Gareth has over 20 years of experience in financial services in Europe and the Far East across a variety of disciplines, working with companies at varying stages of their evolution. Former roles include Global Chief Risk Officer at HSBC in Asia Pacific and Chief Operating Officer at Delio.
Lisanne Pinfield
Head of Brand
Lisanne has worked within the global marketing teams of apps like Trainline and BlaBlaCar and Ioves working together with product designers and engineers. She believes branding can work like a glue for both the actual product offering, as well as the internal culture of a company, and the best part being that it never stops evolving.
Vincent Racine
Senior Engineer
With 8 years industry experience, Vincent worked most recently at Atellio as a Lead Sales Engineer and Product Manager. Vincent likes that Hedgehog is adopting modern technology to disrupt an established industry. He’s excited to contribute his experience to help achieve Hedgehog's vision.
Igor Dudenkov
Head of Mobile
Igor has experience working for fintech companies like Revolut and building consumer-focused products at JP Morgan Chase. Igor believes that investing in real world assets is an area that is due to be transformed, and being part of this transformation is one of the main reasons he's joined the team.
Joe Bloxsome
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Joe has close to a decade of experience in software development and brings expertise in Cloud Infrastructure as well as Machine Learning from his previous roles at Codeherent and VortX. He’s passionate about Decentralised Finance and Blockchain technology, and is excited to apply those concepts towards democratising real estate investments at Hedgehog.