Corporate Governance

Mr. Lefebvre is Chairman of Heritage Group, a diversified conglomerate with interests in the cruise industry, property and financial investments. Mr. Lefebvre assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Silversea Cruises from 2001 until 2020. During this period, Mr. Lefebvre transformed Silversea Cruises from a cruise line with five vessels to a market leader covering over 900 destinations worldwide. Further, he expanded the product range of Silversea Cruises by adding an expedition fleet, which quickly became a leader in luxury expedition cruising as well. In 2018, Mr. Lefebvre sold two-thirds equity stake of Silversea Cruises to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. for approximately $1 billion. Heritage Group recently acquired a majority stake in the high- end tour operator Abercrombie & Kent with Mr. Lefebvre also becoming co-Chairman of its board. Mr. Lefebvre serves as the Vice President of the Monaco Chamber of Shipping, Member of Executive Committee of the World Tourism and Travel Council, and has held a number of key roles in Cruise Lines International Association, including European Chairman, Member of the Global Executive Committee, and Chairman from 2007 to 2013. Mr. Lefebvre was honored with the Chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint Charles and Grimaldi by SAS Prince Albert of Monaco.

Mr. Barbiero has nearly two decades of experience in investment management and financial operations. From 2013 to 2020, he held the positions of CFO and CIO at Solidarietà Veneto, one of Italy’s largest pension schemes, and in 2020 he joined the Heritage Group as Investment Director. Mr. Barbiero holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Mr. Calabria has close to four decades of experience in the financial services sector and has held multiple senior leadership positions at some of the world's largest financial institutions. In 2012, he founded CMC Capital Limited, an investment banking boutique specializing in mergers and acquisitions and debt restructuring, which he led until 2016, and then returned in 2021. Mr. Calabria is a mergers and acquisitions expert with vast experience across different sectors and regions. In 2016, he joined Barclays as Chairman of M&A and then served as Head of Banking for Barclays Europe from 2016 to 2020 and was responsible for investment banking activities in Continental Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Barclays, he served as Head of International M&A, first at Credit Suisse and then at Merrill Lynch from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Mr. Calabria worked at Credit Suisse from 1990 to 2006 and began his investment banking career at Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd in 1983. Mr Calabria holds a Master of Arts (Honors) in Economics from Rome University, La Sapienza.

Mr. Chandler is an entrepreneur, investor and company builder, with 20 years of experience in forming, funding, running, advising and investing in technology businesses. Mr. Chandler is a co-founder of over ten businesses with involvement in dozens more. Since 2009 he has been the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Notion Capital, a venture capital firm focused on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service. Following an early career at Deloitte and then UBS, he was the Chief Financial Officer at MessageLabs, a cyber security company, through to its acquisition by Symantec in 2008. He is currently a board director of several growing tech companies, including GoCardless, Paddle, Panaseer, Novatiq and Virtual Stock. Mr. Chandler is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Accounting & Economics from the University of Exeter.

My passion for tech runs deep, so let's start at the very beginning. As a child I grew up in a household littered with half finished electronic projects courtesy of my fathers radio amateur passion (call sign G4ECB) this then really catching fire for me when the 80's home computer boom took hold. I cut my teeth on the family Sharp MZ-80K, but my real passions were a succession of Commodore home computers which I couldn't help but want to disassemble, hence leading to my Masters in Microelectronics Systems Engineering from Manchester's UMIST, a city which gave us so much computing history including the legendary Alan Turing. A career in silicon hardware looked a certainty until I met Microsoft and made a sharp left into the world of software, followed by the world of leadership after joining GE, then the largest and most admired company on the planet.

But the real explosion for me was to come when I discovered the Valley and the world of startups - it was a revelation! I've now been fortunate to grow and lead five consecutive companies from early days, each resulting in an IPO: Ariba, SuccessFactors, Bazaarvoice, Workday and Hortonworks. These companies have gone on to be big independent companies, some have been acquired and some are now part of much larger companies - but each taught me a ton about myself and the skills required to lead and grow companies.

The tech waves of SaaS, Cloud, Social and Big Data have thrown me into meeting and working with some amazing people, each teaching me a little bit more about myself and growing a dominant company. It was the open source community-led business model of Hortonworks that also opened my eyes to the devops revolution that was happening in the UK and Europe, and it was here I met the next generation of ambitious homegrown startup founders. Through seed and scale-up funding i've now met so many amazing founders, but I was always left feeling I wanted to do more - how could I pay forward my deep experience in building, leading and scaling companies? The answer was was relatively easy, as all I had to do was answer the question of who did I repeatedly meet in growing Series A+ Enterprise SaaS companies - Notion.Series A+ is where I can really leverage so much of my experience, especially in figuring out the GTM and how to scale it.

Working with leadership teams to determine the best path to growth is incredibly rewarding and seeing the results is even better.

Mr. Ritchie has over 25 years of experience in banking and finance where he has held a number of senior leadership positions. In 1996, Mr. Ritchie joined Deutsche Bank in the Johannesburg office and went on to become a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee in 2009 as Head of Equities. In January 2016, Mr. Ritchie was appointed to Deutsche Bank's Management Board with responsibility for Deutsche Bank's markets division. In 2017, he became Co-Head of the newly created Corporate & Investment Bank. In 2018, he became its sole Head and was appointed as President. In June 2020, Mr. Ritchie joined Centricus, a London-based global investment firm, where he leads the firm's capital markets and advisory business. Mr. Ritchie earned his B.Com. in Finance and Economics from the University of Port Elizabeth.