Our Team

Lord Beaverbrook – Co-President

Maxwell Beaverbrook has had a varied career spanning the worlds of politics and international finance. From 1986 to 1988 he was Government Whip in the House of Lords and a Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry under Margaret Thatcher. He has also been Treasurer of the Conservative Party and was the Treasurer of the European Democratic Union between 1990 and 1992.

He was Chairman of Ventech Healthcare Corp between 1988 and 1992. He was previously chairman of Abbey Medical Inc. now Apria Healthcare Group Inc and founded Petersburg Long Distance, an international telecom carrier based in St. Petersburg, which was subsequently sold to Cable & Wireless.In 1996 Lord Beaverbrook established HighwayOne AG, a wideband telecom operator, which was later sold to Telefonica Communications SA Inc. in 2001.

Between 2001 and 2004 he was a UK representative of Data Treasury Group Corporation, a developer and patent owner of data storage and data transmission systems. From 2001 to 2005 he was non-executive Chairman of Net Integration Technologies Inc., a developer and manufacturer of advanced Linux based office servers.

Brian Basham – Co-President

Brian Basham is a respected and well connected City of London figure.  Today he is known primarily as an entrepreneur, but he made his name as a leading communications specialist.  He was a financial journalist and analyst with the Daily Mail, the Telegraph and The Times before moving into Corporate Communications, specialising in M&A, and redefined the M&A communication business worldwide with his company the Broad Street Group, which he floated.
He is founder and chairman of the ground breaking research house Equity Development, which has produced many reports on quoted companies.   

He recently retired as Chair of the Political Steering Group of the Quoted Companies Alliance.  In 1997 he instigated and guided the 1998 UK Treasury Report into the UK Quoted Company Market.  That report was published by Treasury at the same time as the Chancellor of the Exchequer's (then Gordon Brown) Pre- Budget report. He is co-author of 'Tomorrow's Giants' with the former senior Treasury official Craig Pickering.  He is Chair of the 10/10 Appeal for the charity Springboard. 

He has founded a number of companies, in addition to Equity Development. He started the Broad Street Group with £100 and floated it ten years later for £37m. He founded Primrose Care, which cared for elderly people in their own homes. Primrose Care was sold for a 7.5 times return on investment (approximately ten times counting tax breaks). 

He retains intense enthusiasm for the economic reward of smaller companies and takes as his mantra, 'Triumph of the Optimists', the great work produce by the London Business School Professor, Elroy Dimson, and his colleagues, which shows that from 1955 to 2005, micro caps returned ten times the market as a whole.   

Max Aitken – Director

Max Aitken is Managing Director of Beaverbrook, Aitken & Partners, a private family office based in London. Prior to this, Max was been involved in a variety of entrepreneurial activities and has wide experience in starting, investing in, raising money for and exiting growth companies.

He was founder and Managing Director of the UK’s first new national daily newspaper in a generation, personally raising over £12m venture capital for the enterprise. Prior to this, Max founded and ran an internet development company, Ratio One, for six years through the dot.com boom and bust, successfully selling it as an IT services business to an industry aggregator.

He is also is a trustee of The Beaverbrook Foundation, and holds an MA from Oxford University.

Daniel Borrero i Fresno – Operations Director

Daniel Borrero has been involved for 6 years into the Financial and Banking sector (“la Caixa” and Caixa Catalunya) as Office Responsible for New Costumers and Products as well as Risk Analyst on the headquarters offices.

He began his involvement into the angel sector in 2006 when he was Coordinator of Xarxa Universitària de Business Angels (Xarxa UniBA). UniBA Network is a product of the cooperation and collaboration agreement between the 5 leading technology and innovation university centres in Catalonia (Spain), becoming the first inter-universitarian Business Angels Network in Europe.

He holds a MBA from Universitat Ramon Llull-La Salle (Barcelona)  and he also participates as member of the Tribunal for MBA projects in a catalan university as well as a speaker in different conferences and academic courses in Spain.