Seed Innovations Limited
SEED:LN
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SEED believes that attractive investment returns can be generated from investing in emergence of global health trends.
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Board of Directors
Jim Mellon
Chairman
Jim Mellon is an entrepreneur with interests in a number of sectors. After leaving Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, he worked in Asia and the United States in two fund management companies, GT Management and Thornton Management (Asia) Limited, before founding Regent Pacific Group Limited in 1991, subsequently quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He was also a co-founder of UraMin Inc. and Red Dragon Resources, both mining groups. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time developing start-up opportunities in undervalued sectors, currently concentrating on life sciences, robotics and fintech. He is also the co-author of four books: “Wake Up!”, “The Top 10 Investments for the Next Ten Years”, “Cracking the Code” and “Fast Forward”. In addition, Mr. Mellon is Chairman of Plethora Solutions Holdings plc, Manx Financial Group plc and Port Erin BioPharma Investments Limited, and a Non-executive director of Charlemagne Capital Limited, Condor Gold plc and West African Minerals Corporation, all listed on AIM. He is also a director of Portage Biotech Inc. and Miraculins Inc., both quoted in Canada.
Ed McDermott
Executive Director
Ed McDermott has over 10 years’ experience in the management, financing and development of small companies he has broad experience in a number of sectors including natural resources, technology, financial services, retail and leisure. Ed is currently a Non-Executive Director of AIM listed Fishing Republic Plc and a Non-Executive Director of Emmerson Plc listed on the Official List (Standard Listing). He is part of the corporate finance team at Optiva Securities Limited, the Company’s Broker. He has previously served as a Director of AIM listed Stellar Resources Plc and Noricum Gold Ltd.
Lorne Abony
Chief Executive Officer
Lorne Abony is a well-known technology and media entrepreneur whose many successful tech ventures include the 2001 co-founding of FUN Technologies (“FUN”), an AIM listed company. In 2004 as CEO of FUN, Mr. Abony became the youngest CEO of a listed company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and he sold FUN in 2006 to Liberty Media for Cdn$484 million. Mr. Abony is the former CEO of Mood Media Corporation, the world's largest integrated provider of in-store customer experience solutions, providing services to over 580,000 locations globally. In this role, Mr. Abony oversaw a public company listed on both the Toronto and London Stock Exchanges with offices in 48 countries, employing over 2,300 employees. Mr. Abony has raised over $1billion through the public and private debt and equity markets, including over $100 million for Petopia.com, $190 million for FUN Technologies and over $820 million for Mood Media. Mr. Abony’s entrepreneurial and investment interests focus on companies with market disrupting technologies and in industries with favourable macroeconomic trends such as FinTech (financial technology) and EdTech (education technology). Mr. Abony currently serves as the Executive Chairman of investee company Vemo Education, an EdTech company focused on collaborating with higher education institutions to develop and implement alternatives to traditional debt-dependent student financing options. He is also the Executive Chairman of Schoold, a mobile app that acts as a student’s complete college admissions and career counselor by using machine learning, crowd sourcing, natural language processing and social media analytics. In addition to his board seats at Vemo Education Inc. and Schoold, Mr. Abony is also lead director of Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU), a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play games for smart phone and tablet devices. Mr. Abony is the Chief Executive officer of TSX-V listed Nuuvera Inc a global cannabis company founded on Canadian principles, and built with the whole world in mind. Mr. Abony was born and raised in Toronto. He received his undergraduate degree from McGill University and after graduating from the University of Windsor law school in 1994 with an LL.B and the University of Detroit Mercy with a J.D. (Juris Doctor), he practiced corporate and securities law at a large Toronto law firm. Mr. Abony subsequently earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and embarked on his successful and continuing entrepreneurial career.
Ian Burns
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Ian Burns is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in both England and Wales. He is the founder and Senior Executive Director of Via Executive Limited, a specialist management consulting company and the Managing Director of Regent Mercantile Holdings Limited, a privately owned investment company. Mr. Burns is currently a Non-executive Director and audit committee chairman of two London listed companies, River and Mercantile UK Micro Cap Investment Company Limited and Twenty Four Income Fund Limited. He is also the Chief Financial Officer of Circum Minerals Limited and a Non-executive Director of Darwin Property Management (Guernsey) Ltd. and Premier Asset Management (Guernsey) Ltd. Mr. Burns was previously the Finance Director of AIM-listed Polo Resources Limited, an Executive Director of Anson Fund Management Limited and Group Managing Director of Investec Trust. He is the former Chairman and a current committee member of the Guernsey Association of Trustees.