About

Leslie was made Editor for Growth Company Investor magazine in 2000, then headed up the launch of Business XL magazine, and then became Editorial Director in 2007 for the online and print publication portfolio of Vitesse Media (until 2012). Among the titles of this group were: What Investment, Information Age, Growth Company Investor, Growthbusiness.co.uk, and smallbusiness.co.uk.

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Knifton lines up Timestrip deal

Serial City wheeler-dealer Leo Knifton has lined up a reverse takeover of Internet Music & Media, one of a number of AIM-listed cash shells he currently chairs.

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Sallitt joins Quester

Henry Sallitt, former finance director of struggling AIM software concern AFA Systems, has moved from industry to investment, taking up a post at tech specialist Quester Capital Management.

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New funding for wireless technology firms

Fledgling companies operating in the wireless technology sector are set to benefit from an additional source of funding, thanks to the launch of a new dedicated investment network.

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LDC lands Airclaims MBO

Aviation insurance services firm Airclaims has been bought by its management in a multi-million pound deal funded by private equity group LDC.

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New Advent fund raises £128 million

London-based Advent has concluded the first phase of its latest fundraising, raking in an initial £128 million for its latest fund, Advent Private Equity IV.

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Storm Aviation takes off

Gatwick-based Storm Aviation has completed a deal, which sees the aircraft maintenance group’s founders leave the business and management conclude a buy-out.

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Brown & Mitchell quit F&C

Bill Brown and Robert Mitchell, who manage the two AIM VCTs alongside other small cap funds, have decided to leave F&C Asset Management following the merger with ISIS.

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£3.1m for Marrakech

E-procurement solutions provider Marrakech has received £3.1 million in funding from a group of venture capitalists including Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.

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AIM lesson for AEC

AIM's drive to attract more international companies appears to be bearing fruit, as educational course provider AEC Education has become the first Singaporean company to apply for a sole listing on the market.

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Benyon weighs in

Tom Benyon, entrepreneurial former Tory MP, well-rewarded past organiser of Lloyd’s insurance market activists and financial publisher, is keeping himself busier than ever these days as prime mover of the Guild of Shareholders.

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Ofex wins new recruit

Corporate financier and fund management veteran Duncan Fitzwilliams, who founded one of the early high-tech success stories CASE Communications, has given his blessing to the new-look Ofex.

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Ventus tests AIM wind

Stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has come up with a venture capital trust unlike any other. The Ventus VCT wants to raise £25 million purely to invest in a spread of ‘small on-shore UK wind farm projects’.