Yannick Roux

Yannick Roux

Associate, Forward Venture Partners

Yannick is part of the team at Forward Venture Partners, a London-based “captive” VC fund investing across Europe in web, media and ecommerce companies. Yannick also looks after the M&A activity of Forward Internet Group, which Forward Venture Partner is part of. Forward is a media technology company that creates, acquires and operates an integrated collection of web brands, including uSwitch and Omio (price comparison), Justshops (ecommerce) and Invisible Hand (browser extension). Yannick actively contributes to value creation for the existing portfolio companies.

Prior to Forward, Yannick started Likebees.com, a group buying website, which was later sold to larger player in the sector.

In his prior life Yannick worked in the City of London as an investment banker doing M&A advisory.

Yannick speaks four European languages (Italian, English, French and Spanish).