PROfounders team (rollover team member to view details)
Rogan Angelini-Hurll
General Partner
Rogan Angelini-Hurll
General Partner
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Rogan is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. Most recently Rogan Angelini-Hurll headed the Citi Pan European Media Research team, covering both UK and Continental European companies including TV and radio broadcasters, consumer, business and professional publishers, directories, advertising agencies and entertainment companies.
Prior to joining Salomon Brothers (subsequently acquired by Citi) in 1997, Rogan worked at Spectrum Strategy Consultants, originating work and managing teams of consultants on a number of projects both in Asia and Europe related to media and telecoms.
In addition, Rogan helped write the original Lastminute.com business plan with Brent Hoberman.

Sean Seton-Rogers
General Partner
Sean Seton-Rogers
General Partner
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Sean is a founding General Partner at PROfounders Capital. Most recently, Sean was with Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe), where he worked closely with companies such as Bebo, Wonga.com. MoveMe, TouchLocal and BetNow.
Prior to Balderton, Sean worked with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston. Also Sean worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company, in both the US and Europe.
Sean received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. In addition, Sean graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.
Investment Partners (rollover team member to view details)

Brent Hoberman
Investment Partner
Brent Hoberman
Investment Partner

Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and was CEO and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. Lastminute.com was floated in March 2000 and in 2005 was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.
Brent most recently founded another VC-backed internet based startup, mydeco, the online interiors site that will revolutionise the way we shop and design for our homes. Brent is on the Advisory Board at MobiMate and Kenshoo. He is a Governor of University of the Arts College, London and a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo, Wayn.com and moveme.com.

Jonathan Goodwin
Investment Partner
Jonathan Goodwin
Investment Partner
Jonathan is currently the Global Head of the Media Investment Banking Group at Jefferies as a result of the firm's acquisition of LongAcre Partners.
Prior to joining Jefferies in 2007, Jonathan was CEO & Co-Founder of LongAcre Partners where he helped build the company into Europe's leading mid-market media corporate finance house. LongAcre successfully completed over $15bn of transactions prior to the sale to Jefferies. Previously, Jonathan focused on the media sector at Apax Partners and later joined the MBI team of Talk Radio, backed by News Corporation and Liberty Media. Talk Radio then became the foundation for The Wireless Group plc, of which Jonathan became Group Managing Director.

Peter Dubens
Investment Partner
Peter Dubens
Investment Partner

Peter is currently the founder and head of Oakley Capital. Prior to founding Oakley, Peter was instrumental in establishing 365 Media as one of the UK's leading online sports content providers. Peter subsequently led the sale of the company to BSkyB in December 2006 for £110 million.
He was also Executive Chairman of Pipex, the AIM listed provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services, where he led the strategic development and execution of 14 acquisitions building one of the UK's largest broadband suppliers. Pipex was sold for £330 million. Peter has over 21 years of operating experience and over the course of his career has bought, sold and restructured over 40 businesses.

Michael Birch
Investment Partner
Michael Birch
Investment Partner

Michael co-founded the social networking site Bebo in January 2005 with his wife Xochi Birch. Bebo has around 40m registered users and in 2008 the site was sold to AOL for US$850m. Previously Michael had co-founded BirthdayAlarm.com and Ringo.com, which was sold to tickle.com in 2003.
He currently serves on the board of three companies in addition to BirthdayAlarm.com, and is an investor and advisor to eight other companies including wordia.com and playfire.com.