Our team

Steven is a Partner at Hg. He is the Partnership’s COO and a member of Hg’s Operating and Realisation Committees, with oversight of Client Services and other non-investment related functions.

Steven joined Hg in 2003, having previously worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was involved in a number of M&A and capital market related transactions.

Matthew is a Managing Partner, Chair of the Hg Investment Committee and is a member of the Operating Committee of the firm.

Matthew focuses on Technology investments and is a board member of several Hg investments including Achilles and Mitratech. He was formerly on the boards of Allocate Software, Intelliflo, Valueworks and Sequel Business Solutions.

Luke’s responsibilities include managing the day to day activities of the Client Services team. At Hg he focuses on investor coverage across Europe, Asia and the US, fundraising, co-investment syndication and other client service management, and firm-wide strategic initiatives.

Nic is the Senior Partner of Hg. He has ultimate responsibility for Hg’s strategy, management and governance. He focuses on larger software investments that provide daily-use mission critical applications for accountants, lawyers, tax/compliance professionals and designers/engineers/scientists.

Nic is currently a director on the boards of Foundry, IRIS, Sovos Compliance, Visma and CogitalGroup. He has led or co-led more than 30 investments over the last 27 years, including Addison (accounting), CSG (legal/ERP), e-conomic (SaaS ERP), Geneva Technology (telecom OSS), IRIS (Accounting/ERP), NextGenTel (telecoms), RAET (payroll), Rolfe & Nolan (banking), Visma (ERP), Xyratex (storage).

Ben is a member of the Client Services and Saturn teams.

He has 15 years of corporate finance experience from prior roles at Deloitte, UBS and most recently Goldman Sachs, where he was Co-Head of the UK Mid-Cap Investment Banking team. Ben joined Hg in 2023 and his current focus is on managing exits within the Hg portfolio as well as managing the HgCapital Trust.

Ben is from the UK and holds a degree in History from the University of Oxford.

Justin is a Managing Partner, member of the Hg Investment Committee, the Realisation Committee and a member of the Hg Board. Justin is also responsible for Hg’s Munich office.

Justin joined Hg in 2002. He is currently a Director of Benevity, P&I, CaseWare, Gen-II, Mein Auto, GGW, Transporeon and is a member of the Waystone board. He has led or co-led more than 25 investments since joining Hg: among them Serrala, F24, MediFox, RAET and STP.

Prior to Hg, Justin was employed by Goldman Sachs and Deloitte. He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Cologne.

Prior to joining Hg in 2024, Barty worked as an analyst for J T Financial Management.

Barty holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Warwick.

George is a Consultant to HgCapital Trust plc. Previously, George spent nine years at Partners Group in its Client Solutions, Private Wealth team in London, covering UK wealth managers and led investor relations for its LSE-listed private equity investment company. Before this he worked at Numis Securities and PwC in London.

Laura is the Senior Investor Relations Manager.

Laura joined Hg in 2010. Prior to this Laura had spent more than 20 years’ within financial services on both the buy and sell-side, initially at Smith New Court and Merrill Lynch and more recently at NewSmith Asset Management providing investor coverage to their hedge fund clients.