Zheng Chang Zhu

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd. (MSIM) is an asset management firm headquartered in London, UK. Founded in 1986, the firm is a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Investments (UK), ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. MSIM offers a range of investment and risk management solutions to institutional and professional investors worldwide.

Part of McKinsey & Co., Inc., McKinsey & Co., Inc. (United Kingdom) is a consulting firm that helps UK manufacturers embrace new technologies for digital transformation and leadership. The company is based in London, UK. Ruben Schaubroeck, McKinsey Digital's new lead for the UK, Belgium, and Netherlands offices, spoke with Thomas Farrar, a manager of communications in the firm's UK office, about the importance of speed and pace for CEOs in this new growth journey. The British company works with organizations that pursue sustainability, inclusion, and economic growth, all at the same time, to achieve strategic foresight and built-in agility in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new trading relationship with the EU.

Bridgepoint Advisers Ltd (Bridgepoint Advisers) is a private equity subsidiary of Bridgepoint Group Ltd. founded in 1984. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.

Inflexion Private Equity Partners LLP (Inflexion Private Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1999 by John Frederick Hartz and Simon Eric Hugh Turner. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. manufactures medical devices. The company was founded by John Donoghue on February 6, 2002 and is headquartered in Foxborough, MA.

High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH (HTGF) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.

Octopus Ventures Ltd. (Octopus Ventures) is a venture capital firm Founded by Alan Wallace in 1999. The firm is headquartered in London.

RRJ Management (HK) Ltd (RRJ Management) is an independent private equity firm founded in 2011 by brothers Richard and Charles Ong. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong with additional office in Singapore.

KSL Advisors LLC ( KSL Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Mike S. Shannon and Eric C. Resnick. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Dawn Capital LLP (Dawn Capital) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Normal B. Fiore & Haakon Overli. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Kindred Capital LLP (Kindred Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015. The firm is headquartered in London, UK.

Sheffield Asset Management LLC (Sheffield) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Brian Feltzin in 2003. Sheffield serves as the investment manager for and provides discretionary investment advisory services to a private investment fund which is offered to outside investors. Investors generally consist of institutions, family offices, fund of funds, high net worth individuals and trusts.

Netwookie Ltd. provides online platform services for drivers. The British company was founded by Maximilian Bock.

Kountable, Inc. engages in financing, procurement, insurance, and logistics services for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The firm offers trade management support solutions. The company was founded by Christopher Hale, Craig Allen, and Catherine Nomura in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lateral Capital LLC (New York) (Lateral Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Rob Eloff. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of IWSR Drinks Market Analysis Ltd., Wine Intelligence Ltd. is a wine consumer research and British insights company. The company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 2002 by Lulie Jane Halstead, Richard Patrick Halstead. Lulie Jane Halstead has been the CEO since 2002. Wine Intelligence was acquired by IWSR Drinks Market Analysis Ltd. on January 18, 2021.

UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd. (UBS-UK) is the Great Britain-based investment subsidiary of UBS Asset Management Holdings Ltd., itself a subsidiary of UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1981 as Phillips & Drew Investment Management Ltd., the firm merged with UBS Asset Management in 2000 to form UBS Asset Management Ltd., which became UBS Global Asset Management (UK) Ltd. in 2002. They changed their name to UBS Asset Management (UK) Ltd. in 2015. Headquartered in London, UBS-UK provides asset management services to corporate and public pension plans, sovereign institutions, endowments and municipalities, charities, insurance companies, wholesale intermediaries, financial institutions, and private clients.

Jiayi Education Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of online-merge-offline after-school tutoring services. It operates through the After-School Education Services and Childcare Services segments. The After-School Education Services segment offers after-school tutoring courses and its proprietary mathematics and Chinese course content to third-party after-school tutoring service providers. The Childcare Services segment includes childcare centers under Bambinos brand. The company was founded by Ming Zhou Fan and Xiao Bing Wang in March 2005 and is headquartered in Huai’an, China.

BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd. (BlackRock UK) is the Great Britain-based investment management subsidiary of BlackRock Finance Europe Ltd., ultimately held by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) in the US. The firm was founded in 1964 and formerly known as Barclays Global Investors Ltd. Headquartered in London, BlackRock UK manages a range of investment products for various UK and continental European clients including defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, insurance companies, educational and nonprofit organizations, local government entities, and individual and families.

Fondazione Enea Tech promotes investments and initiatives in the fields of scientific research, economic development, and technology transfer. The private company is based in Rome, Italy, and has subsidiaries in Italy.

SeamlessHR Ltd. provides end to end human resource software for hiring, training and managing top talent in Nigeria. covers payroll, leave, performance, and onboarding. The company was founded by Emmanuel Okeleji and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Solenica, Inc. provides solar panel installation services. The company is based in Edmonds, WA. The company was founded in 2013 by Alessio Paoletti, Diva Tommei, Mattia di Stasi. Diva Tommei has been the CEO since 2013.

Symprove Ltd. is a British company that offers a unique gut health supplement called Daily Essential, which contains billions of live and active bacteria for gut support. The company is based in Farnham, UK and was founded in 2002 by Barry Smith and Barry Edward Smith. The product comes in three different flavors and is gluten and dairy-free. With over 100K happy customers, Symprove's scientifically proven product is known to boost beneficial bacteria and improve gut health. Mike Butler has been the CEO of the company since 2010.

Bd-Capital Partners Ltd. (Bd-Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2019 by Richard Baker and Andy Dawson. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

AppZone Ltd. engages in the development of banking and payment software platforms. It offers financial inclusion, digital banking, and digital payments. The company was founded by Obi Emetarom, Emeka Emetarom and Wale Onawunmi in 2008 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

• Messier 31, Inc. develops decentralized lending platform. The company was founded by Cate Rung and Brendan Playford and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Scott Investment Partners LLP is an independent investment manager headquartered in Henley-on-Thames, UK. The firm was founded in 2012 by Dr. Walter Scott. Scott Investment Partners manages concentrated, long-only portfolios of global equities and any subset thereof for institutional clients worldwide.

Part of Enechange Ltd., SMAP Energy Ltd. is a company based in London, UK. SMAP Energy originated from research at the University of Cambridge, where the team worked with academics, data scientists, and utility clients across the world to build and develop the next generation of data analytics tools. The British company seeks to transform the way energy providers and customers look at energy consumption by analyzing user behavior to derive insights that can make the energy sector more efficient. SMAP Energy's smart meter analytics platform helps utilities and other aggregators of energy consumption data to pull out the complex insights contained in the data. The company was founded in 2014 by Paul Monroe, Adnan Mortada, Yohei Kiguchi. Yohei Kiguchi has been the CEO since 2014.