An Audience With: Richard Baker

Richard is a partner with Acuity Advisors.

Having held influential leadership, corporate development and consulting roles at JP Morgan, Monitor and Diageo plc, Richard has had great insight into the world’s most successful businesses and a number of the UK’s most outstanding start-ups. He has extensive experience working alongside investment banks on M&A transactions across technology and telecoms.

Insight is one of Richard’s notable strengths. He very quickly grasps what drives a company’s bottom line and growth, an understanding that’s bolstered by his personal experience of running and then exiting his own business. Richard easily builds strong working relationships with potential buyers and has a keen and intuitive sense for what motivates them.

Since securing a first class degree in Economics with Statistics, Richard has worked extensively in Europe, US and Australia as well as in the UK, providing him with an enviable and comprehensive international network.

Client successes

Richard is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Acuity with 25 years’ experience in all aspects of corporate finance. Richard focuses on the Enterprise Software including transactions in FinTech, InsureTech, MarTech and RegTech.  Recent successes include:

• the buyout of Kallik by FPE Capital
• the investment into Community Fibre of £50m
• the sale of JHC to FNZ
• the investment into Call Flow of €30m
• the acquisition of Spamina by Hornetsecurity
• the acquisition of Groeneveld ICT Solutions by Vehco
• the sale of CommuniGator to Spotler
• the strategic review of Lanner Group
• the sale of Vehco to Addsecure
• the MBO of Sparkol
• the investment into Ncam Technologies by YFM Equity Partners
• the investment into TrueSpeed by Aviva plc
• the sale of Verilocation to Isotrak