| Website | hansjeenetwork.co.uk |
| @ahansjee | |
| Birthplace | London |
| Birthdate | 9/6/67 |
| Edinburgh University, BSc(Hons) | 1990 |
| AI and CS | |
| London Business School, MSc | 1997 |
| Finance | |
| Kingston University, Hon. Doc. | 2011 |
| Computing |
Anil Hansjee is an investor in the early seed companies in the internet space and is currently creating a disruptive funding approach to that market. In addition, since June 2011 he was appointed a senior advisor for the Internet Industry to EQT Funds, a major Continental European PE firm.
Anil was with Google from September 2006 to June 2011. At Google he was responsible for Google’s acquisitions and strategic investments in the region as well as relationships with the early stage technology community and their backers and advisers. Anil led investments, and was a board observer for Google, into FON (Spain), Mobile Planet (Kenya) and Ubiquisys (UK) as well as selling Google investment dotMobi to Afilias. In aggregate, Anil has completed over $230m worth of deals for Google, $140m originated by himself, incl. Google’s first acquisition of a European publicly listed company Global IP Solutions.
Prior to joining Google, Anil was a Principal with the venture capital firm IDG Ventures, where he led investments and was board director, in the mobile music company, Shazam Entertainment as well as selling Lionhead to Microsoft. Between mid 2000 and end of 2001, Anil was a Vice President for corporate finance with Bear Stearns International in London completing deals such as the sale of Geneva Technologies to Convergys for $692m. Between mid 1997 and mid 2000, Anil was a member of Chase Manhattan Bank’s corporate finance group both in New York and London. Anil joined Chase’s corporate finance team after spending the first 7 years of his professional career as a software engineer and business analyst in the front office financial services sector in Chicago and London with O’Connor Associates (now UBS) and Chase.
Anil is a visiting Professor at Kingston University Faculty of Computing and received an Honorary Doctorate in computing in 2011, for services to entrepreneurial IT sector in the UK. Anil also has a BSc. (Hons.) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Edinburgh University and has a MSc. in Finance at London Business School.
Anil is also a Fellow of the chartered institute for IT (BCS) and a member of their Policy and Public Affairs Board, an advisory board member of Seedcamp, an advisor to the European-Leaders Programme and advisor to Worldflow.net – a financial services IT startup which he cofounded. He remains as an advisor to FON.
