Bio

Rupert Ashe is Founder and CEO of D5 Capital. A corporate financier and serial entrepreneur, Rupert has started and sold several businesses as a principal, as well as advising on over 100 transactions including company sales, acquisitions, IPOs and private placements. His areas of specialist knowledge cover ecommerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Marketing Services (including MarTech and AdTech), Media, SaaS and Sports. Rupert qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte before working in corporate finance. He entered the media industry in the 1990s with the co-founding of Focus Communications, a financial public relations and investor relations consultancy, which he subsequently sold to Grey Global Group (now part of WPP) in 1998. Since 2001 he has sold numerous private companies and has raised over £200m of capital for companies operating in the media, marketing & technology sectors in UK, Europe and Israel.