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Expansion of Senior Finance Leadership Team
EMV Capital plc announces a significant expansion of its senior finance leadership team, appointing Anesh Patel as Group Chief Financial Officer and creating a new Portfolio CFO role for Stephen Crowe, effective December 1, 2025. This restructuring reflects the company's growth to over £100 million in Assets Under Management and a portfolio exceeding seventy companies. Patel brings over twenty years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, and AIM-quoted life sciences companies, while Crowe will focus on providing financial services to EMVC's portfolio companies. These changes are intended to support the group's scaling operations and drive towards break-even. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nStrictly embargoed for: 07.00 a.m. on 24 November 2025\n \nEMV Capital plc\n(EMVC, Group or the Company)\nExpansion of Senior Finance Leadership Team\nAppointment of new Group CFO and creation of Portfolio CFO role\n \nEMV Capital Plc (AIM: EMVC), the deep tech and life sciences VC investment group, announces the appointment of Anesh Patel as Group Chief Financial Officer (non-Board) with Stephen Crowe, the Company's current CFO, transitioning to a newly created role of Portfolio CFO (non-Board). Both changes are expected to take effect from 1 December 2025.\nThe creation of these two distinct roles reflects EMVC's development into a business with over £100 million of Assets Under Management (AUM) and a portfolio of more than seventy companies, supported by multiple revenue streams across corporate finance, fund management, and value-creation services. As the Group has scaled, the scope of the finance function has naturally evolved, requiring a dedicated Group-focused CFO and a separate senior role focused exclusively on supporting portfolio company growth.\nAnesh Patel is an accomplished strategic finance leader with over twenty years of relevant experience. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and his subsequent experience in investment banking and leadership roles within AIM-quoted life sciences companies closely align with EMVC's core areas of corporate finance, M&A projects, portfolio management and venture development.\nStephen, who has been with the Company for over seven years, will support an orderly handover before concentrating full-time on providing senior financial and accounting services to selected EMVC portfolio companies (paid for by the portfolio companies), ensuring continuity and strengthening of the Group's active portfolio-management model.\nDr Ilian Iliev, CEO of EMV Capital, commented:\n\"As the Group continues to grow, we are expanding our senior finance leadership. Stephen has been instrumental in helping build EMVC to where it is today, and I am delighted that he will continue to support our portfolio companies in a dedicated capacity. His move into the Portfolio CFO role allows us to deploy his strengths even more directly into supporting our portfolio.\n\"We are equally pleased to welcome Anesh to EMVC. His blend of financial leadership, capital-markets expe...