A private investor and advisor with a background building and scaling data and analytics businesses, Jonathan Reed has more than 20 years of experience. For some 18 of them, he served in leadership roles with progressive responsibility at Acuris Global, Ltd (which was sold to ION Group - becoming ION Analytics). He began his career in institutional equity sales at ING Group in 2001 and joined Acuris two years later. Initially, Jonathan Reed was sales director for Europe co-founding Debtwire and was later promoted to head of sales for the Americas, before becoming Global Managing Director.
From 2008 to 2020, Jonathan Reed was Global Managing Director of Fixed Income for Acuris. As leader of the largest of its six divisions, he oversaw the rollout of seven new products, increased revenues from $40 million to more than $100 million, and solidified Acuris’ market position via the acquisition and integration of multiple businesses. He also served on the company’s Executive Committee from 2012 until the firm’s sale in 2020.
As an investor, Mr. Reed primarily targets niche data companies. He also offers his business and commercial expertise as a board advisor with a number of the companies in his portfolio. He completed the Executive Finance Program at the University of Oxford and holds a bachelor of arts in business administration and management from the Bristol Business School at the University of West England.