Following a record year for capital deployment, with over £500m deployed, ECI kicks off the new year with five promotions, maintaining its strong momentum into 2025.
Promotions across the Investment and Commercial Teams include:
Rory Nath is promoted to Partner in ECI’s Investment Team. Having joined ECI in 2015 as a Commercial Team Associate, Rory moved to the Investment Team in 2018 where he is now a Partner. He has worked on several successful investments in 2024 including TAG and Croud, and sits on the Board of both businesses. Rory has also been involved in previous exits at KB Associates, CPOMS and Investis Digital, averaging a 3.8x return.
Isabella Fox and Sarthak Sawlani are both promoted to Investment Director within the Investment Team. Isabella enjoyed a prolific start to her career at ECI since joining in 2023, having worked on several completed transactions including Commify, ISMS and IGG. She also played a key role on Commify’s significant acquisition of Text Request in October 2024. Sarthak has worked on two new investments in the last year – CMap and IGG. He also works with CSL and BCN, playing a key role in supporting BCN with M&A, with the business completing four acquisitions since investment.
Mia Smith is promoted to Investment Manager within the Commercial Team after having worked on three new investments (ISMS, TAG and Croud) since she joined ECI in 2022. She has also supported the portfolio on a range of value creation initiatives, including helping to develop Mobysoft’s Social Value Strategy and supporting ISMS with channel diversification.
Louis Jans is promoted to Investment Manager within the Investment Team. Having joined ECI in 2023, Louis was part of the deal team on Insurance Insider, provider of digital news and intelligence to the insurance industry. He has also worked with Peoplesafe and Avantia since joining. As a multi-lingual Belgian national, speaking Dutch, English and French, Louis’ skills and experience are a tremendous benefit to assisting ECI’s management teams with their European expansion efforts.
