Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Sean Park combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking.

Founder of Anthemis Group SA, author of The Park Paradigm, and serving as non-executive director on the board of a number of high growth companies, Sean has a proven track record of successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups.

A founding investor in innovative companies such as Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and an early investor in Zoopla, before founding Anthemis Group, Sean was part of the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of businesses including their groundbreaking Digital Markets initiative.

He was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European fixed income markets in early 2000s and authored the seminal “AmazonBay” video exploring the future of finance in 2005.

Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

He is now based in Geneva and refuses to give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics.