James Foster
Finance Director
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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2025
Finance Director
2025
2022 - 2025
Finance Director, Legal & General Growth Partners
2024 - 2025
Head of Finance, Legal & General Growth Partners
2022 - 2024
2016 - 2022
Head of Finance
2020 - 2022
ADV is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital and invests in early stage technology companies and venture capital managers. I have ownership of all finance related activity within ADV.
Transaction and Investment Lead
2017 - 2020
Investment Lead
2016 - 2017
2014 - 2017
Investment Manager
2015 - 2017
Investing in and supporting ambitious entrepreneurs in Seed stage companies. Working with senior management teams on various aspects of strategy, finance and fundraising. My role and responsibilities included: - Sourcing investment opportunities - Evaluating potential investment opportunities, including market analysis, review of strategic aims, team composition, interrogation of financial forecasts and their underlying assumptions. - Production and presentation of investment recommendation papers to investment committee - Leading successful recommendations through a formal legal transaction and due diligence process to completion. Including the negotiation of key commercial terms with senior management, existing and incoming co-investors. - Participation in Board meetings of portfolio companies - Helping portfolio companies raise further capital, including input into the construction of strategic business plans with accompanying financial forecasts that showcased the commercial potential of an investment.
Finance Manager
2014 - 2015
2012 - 2014
Insight Analyst
2013 - 2014
Management Accountant
2012 - 2013
2009 - 2011
HR Project Assistant
2009 - 2011