Alliott is passionate about enterprise and entrepreneurship. He is involved in all aspects of the investment process at Octopus Ventures from the evaluation and assessment of new opportunities, to the negotiation and documentation of deal terms, through to the monitoring and support of portfolio companies post investment.
Prior to joining Octopus, Alliott spent four years at the international law firm ashurst, where he worked within the corporate finance and private equity team advising on a number of high profile MBO, IPO, takeover and merger transactions for various clients including Goldman Sachs, Apax Partners, Sporting Bet, N M Rothschild and Terra Firma. During this period he also spent year at N M Rothschild advising on several high profile M&A transactions.
Alliott is a Director of the British Business Angel Association and the University of Oxford society Oxford Entrepreneurs. He also sits as a Board Observer at The Key Revolution, Graze and Villas to Go. Alliott graduated with an MA (Hons) in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University.
