Investment Director at Jonas Software
Russell Joined Jonas in 2022 as an Investment Manager to help drive the M & A team focus in building closer corporate relationships with Professional Networks and Advisors. To help add wider growth opportunities to the existing strategy for Jonas in the UK and Europe.
He initially started his career in the Banking arena becoming a senior bank manager in London at the age of twenty-four. Russell was keen to understand more of the corporate world and looking for fresh challenges in his career, started working and managing a number of private companies before becoming enticed into the M & A world.
He also ran his own consultancy business specialising in a more involved end to end process of M & A from initial evaluation and preparation to negotiations and post completion integration work. He spent over 18 years as a strategic M & A consultant and gained a wealth of experience representing both sides of the deal process with buyers and vendors along with PE, VC, and corporate global acquirers within key sectors of Logistics, Technology & Software, and more general sectors. He actively played the role of NED and board level roles when working and preparing companies for the M & A process.
Russell believed that in too many circumstances in the M&A world, the people that helped create and drive the reputation and value of the business were too often overlooked in the financial elements of any deal process, therefore potentially devaluing the future of the company in general.
So when looking at the next phase or fresh challenge in his career, he was enthused by the ethos of Jonas/CSI in that they understood the importance of the employees and leadership teams within the businesses they acquire and their key focus on acquiring companies for the long term strategy, providing security and a long term home for employees and any vendor that chooses to become part of the Jonas global family of companies.
