Meet Our Team
Prior to this, he spent 17 years in the Investment Management industry including 13 years at the well-known Hedge Fund, Gartmore Investment Management (US$56 billion Assets Under Management) where he had a number of different roles, his parting one being the COO for the Investment Division.
He then spent the next 7 years as an Investor and Start-Up Growth Specialist. During this time he worked for a VC and the Private Equity firm, Hamilton Bradshaw (founded by ex-Dragon, James Caan). He was mentored by James on how to aggressively grow Start-Up businesses with a view to preparing them for an Exit.
In his spare time, he is an ‘Expert By Experience’, for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) the regulator for the Care Home industry.
He is educated to Master’s level in International Business law and graduated from the University of London.
He sold his first business, when he was just 27 years old and is the founder of a number of companies including www.disabledentrepreneurs.co.uk, the UK's largest website for Disabled Entrepreneurs. Shane is highly respected by friends and family because of his inherent ability to look for what is positive in any seemingly negative situation.
He has won the battle against depression due to his mobility problems by proving his statement: ``If I can do it, so can you.``
She is also Professor at the University of West London, External Examiner to 4 post-graduate clinical and counselling course and National Assessor for Consultant posts in the NHS. She is an Honorary member of the British Psychological Society and has been awarded 3 Doctorates from universities across the UK.
He is an experienced Non-Executive Director, and has been Chairman of the Hospedia Group Ltd and CVLV Group Ltd, and Deputy Chairman of Redstone plc. Before starting his non-executive career, Tim held several directorships within the Vodafone Group.
Tim is also the Chairman of the Investment Committee for Kaleidoscope Investments.
During the last 25 years she worked on delivering successful high-end HR ERP programs across a wide spectrum of business sectors and countries. Jacqui then established a Recruitment Business on a global scale called Star Capital that provided SAP and technology professionals. Jacqui fostered a well-respected team involved in the placements of some of the top names in the ERP industry. She entered into a partnership with Hamilton Bradshaw (James Caan) where she successfully exited that business.
Jacqui has a particular expertise in understanding how technology can be leveraged to maximise potential and accelerate growth.
As COO for Kaleidoscope Investments he is responsible for overseeing the Investment process and ensuring all relevant procedures are complied with.
Sam is all about identifying the intrinsic value and competitive advantage that hiring talented individuals adds to a business, whilst fostering engagement and innovation. Sam is now using her knowledge to support and connect people with disabilities with new opportunities.
Accomplished across a range of sectors-Retail, FMCG, Financial services and new business opportunities.
Proven creative expertise in brand development, sales, customer service with KPIs delivery & driving growth through marketing initiatives and the exploitation of new markets both on and offline.
Danielle spent her entire sporting career as world number 1, winning two Paralympic golds, three World Championship titles and holds all 12 world records. Taking gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she became the first disabled athlete to represent England in an able-bodied discipline, proving that disability is no bar to achieving.
Following her retirement from competitive sport, Danielle is now teaching others how to be the best version of themselves. She was also the Winner of the 2016 Women of the Future Awards.
Wishing to utilize the wide project and stakeholder management and communication skills developed through career so far; moving towards the next challenge and aspirations to advance within a dynamic and innovative business. Tony is PRINCE2 qualified.
Hayley has been a successful entrepreneur launching a website that had over 20,000 hits on the first day of launch. The website successfully developed a wide range of branded products into the marketplace.
In the last two years Hayley has worked for private family offices, working closely with the charitable endeavours of these businesses.
He is the co-founder of three start-ups, including the The New Covent Garden Soup Co Ltd., which pioneered and grew the fresh soup category in the UK reaching £20m in revenues. In 2005, John co-founded Little Dish, which supplies healthy, natural and convenient meals and snacks to children over one year old and sold it in 2017.
John has a particular expertise at deciphering revenue models and ensuring their assumptions are realistic and achievable.
After relocating to Dubai, Preeya leveraged off her relationship management skills, and focussed on working with Large Corporates & Schools sourcing high-end properties for the employees/parents when relocating to Dubai.
In 2006 he was appointed as a Director of Food, Beverage and Restaurants at Harrods where he was responsible for 34 restaurants and the Food hall with a collective budget of over £136m.
Soon thereafter, David co-founded Cadbury Cocoa House where he negotiated with the Cadburys Board, to obtain a licence to create and open the Cadbury Cocoa Houses.
David has significant expertise in ensuring the operational infrastructure behind any business is robust and scalable.
Anita advises across the entire spectrum of employment issues to businesses, ranging from thriving start-ups to professional services firms to global PLCs, as well as to senior executives and founders. She is particularly well versed in diversity issues which gives Anita a unique insight into disability and the laws surrounding it.
Adam is an experienced speaker and has given Tedx talks before. He is a huge disability advocate and is helping us to co-create and deliver inclusive training courses.
In 2019, Kush has received the Asian Achievers Award for Entrepreneur of the Year, was included in the BAME 100 Business Leaders Index by Green Park and received the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, by TiE London.
She spent much of her career at Thomson Reuters as Head of Sales for the UK & Israel and her team had an annual budged over £100m in sales.
Mary-Rose has a particular expertise with analysing sales models and determining whether or not they are realistic and attainable.
Caroline headed up two high profile strategic projects for Credit Suisse in this space. Caroline is a product specialist and is focused on creating products that are robust and scalable for Kaleidoscope Advisory.
I set up Hezar Ventures four years ago with a friend and partner from family business origins, and we create effective funding with our network of Family relationships and partners, as well as providing bespoke investment and strategic solutions for those predominantly Family clients but also some institutional clients, creating bridges between our home markets (UK/Europe) and where we operate, across Asia, Middle East and Africa.
A visionary, highly commercial, profit orientated leader used to operating at Board level with owner/proprietors and in PLC's, defining and delivering strategic direction.
He is an entrepreneurial customer focused problem solver able to drive complex projects and inspire multi-site, multi-discipline teams.
With a high degree of technical aptitude over a large scope of IT software, hardware and infrastructure, Naomi is influencing and shaping the direction Kaleidoscope Group IT. Her mind-set ensures that our business efficiency and collaboration across multiple functions, departments and levels comes first.
A wife and a mother, Naomi was diagnosed as autistic a few years ago. She is a role model of the strengths and capabilities that being autistic can bring. She helps change people’s views of what being neurodivergent means and will ensure her children grow up knowing there is no difference in ‘different’.
His practice primarily focused on corporate transactions on both a local and national level, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions before he moved in-house to Barclays Bank PLC where he specialises in complex derivatives and structured capital markets products and the agency lending world.
In his spare time Seb keeps active by running and continues to play a variety of sports socially.
A project manager who has created, marketed, run and managed virtual events and careers fairs for employers and university faculties – including during the pandemic. A fundraiser, youth mentor and leader, and volunteer listener. Lily has been a peer mentor, professional mentor and student ambassador. She has lectured at the University of East London, tutored secondary school students from deprived backgrounds through the entry process in to higher education, apprenticeships or employment and delivered children’s mental health week programmes to primary school children in South West London. Lily is a proven creative thinker motivated by making a meaningful difference in the lives of others, increasing human capital and social mobility through awareness raising, education, connection and engagement. “Standing up for injustice and inequality is what lights a fire within me”.
It is Lily’s mission to combine her diverse skillset with 24 years of lived experience of multiple hidden disabilities to help realise a world where equality, diversity and inclusion are celebrated and lay at the heart of both society and every workplace.
He was the accountancy department’s Training Coordinator arranging, sourcing and delivering training to the accountants when and where needed.
Away from work he has always enjoyed sport and participated at a high level in both football and Special Needs Judo. In 2009 he won the bronze medal at the British Judo Championship and was ranked in the top 3 disabled judo players in the UK.