Meet The Team
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By 2050, the average amount of time each of us spends in learning, training or upskilling will have tripled. Some fear a race against accelerated obsolescence. We foresee the greatest acceleration of human potential in history!
Charles McIntyre and Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet
Platform Partners
Our founders, management and directors, led by Benjamin and Charles are long standing business partners. They have decades of experience as investors, advisors and operators in fragmented industries undergoing global consolidation and digital transition, in particular the media and education sectors.
Together, they have been building and leading a thematic platform dedicated to the education, training and edtech sectors comprised of two companies – IBIS Capital and Edtech Global, which are affiliated to EdtechX Holdings. We will have access to the resources and strategic capabilities of both IBIS Capital and Edtech Global (together, our “platform partners”). Our founders and platform partners unite around a shared vision of identifying, growing, transforming and investing in next generation education and training companies. They actively track and curate a broad and fragmented universe of incumbents and innovators in the sector, globally. They are also active in shaping and disseminating industry and investment trends. We believe that our management team and platform partners’ relationships with leading edtech company founders, senior executives of private and public education and training companies, venture capitalists and private equity fund managers, in addition to the strategic capabilities brought by our platform partners will give us a competitive advantage in our acquisition strategy and our ability to identify and implement value creation initiatives.
Benjamin and Charles, also co-founded and led EdtechX Holdings Acquisition Corp., or “EdtechX 1, the first and only blank check company focused on education, training and edtech, which successfully listed on Nasdaq in October 2018 and subsequently (March 2020) completed a merger with education technology company, Meten Education Group Ltd, now operating as Meten-EdtechX (NASDAQ: METX). Benjamin and Charles are currently independent directors of Meten-EdtechX.
IBIS Capital
IBIS Capital was formed in 2003 as a sector focused investment bank specializing on opportunities arising from the impact of digital technology. IBIS Capital is headquartered in London, UK and has established itself as a leading independent investment bank within the education, edtech and media sectors, working with companies, financial sponsors, family offices and institutional investors across Europe, Asia and North and South America. IBIS Capital was a founding partner in 2006 of IBIS Capital Partners, a long/short hedge fund focused on the global media sector.
EdTechX Global
EdtechX Global, which was spun out from IBIS Capital in 2015, is a research and event company that owns and operates international conferences and publishes industry research under the EdTechX brand. Its senior executives, innovators and investors are involved in and connected to the education and training sectors. EdTech Global addresses a global audience through its digital event (EdtechX Online) and global EdtechX conference series and ecosystem tours which take place in Europe (EdtechX Europe), Asia (EdtechX Asia) and Africa (EdTechX Africa). Edtech Global also works in partnership with other event organizers in the U.S., Middle East, China and Japan. EdTech Global maintains a proprietary database of over 5,000 companies and 25,000 senior executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, functional experts, investors and influencers operating within the education and training sector across the globe.