Peter Wakeham of WILink Joins Ariadne Capital Investor Members

London - -- Ariadne Capital, the London based venture group, has announced that Peter Wakeham has joined the Ariadne Capital Investor Membership. Wakeham has more than 37 years experience working for bluechip multi-nationals and in entrepreneurial ventures, and co-founded WILink (World Investor Link) with Graham Morse in 1989.

Wakeham joins a group of select investors in Ariadne Capital that includes Wayne Lochner and Terry Plummer, the founders and top executives of Affinity Internet Holdings Plc, Gerhard Huber, founder and CEO of ENBA Ltd, Susan Dark, Founder and Managing Partner, Pendulum Partners, and Gerard F. Bonnevay, a member of the Board of Credit Agricole C.E. /Indosuez Group.

“Peter brings a wealth of operational knowledge and important relationships to Ariadne Capital, and his focus on providing the best service to Investors, as the success of WILink proves, will be invaluable to us as we build out Ariadne Capital’s platform in the next decade.” said CEO Julie Meyer. “I’m particularly pleased that he is joining us at Ariadne Capital as an Investor Member.”

“Investing in Ariadne Capital was an easy decision – it makes business sense,” said Peter Wakeham, WILink’s chief executive officer. “How best to use the resources that Ariadne Capital provides is the hard part as one is spoilt for choice.”

Wakeham worked in the 1970s and 1980s for Mars,
Inc. and PepsiCo, Inc., where he held senior international marketing and
general management positions in the U.K., Sweden, Japan and the United States.
During this period, he also undertook consultancy assignments in
Scandinavia, Australia and the U.K. as an engagement manager with McKinsey & Co., Inc.

In 1988, Wakeham was a founder member of the buy-out team which
acquired Bricom, a business services conglomerate, from British and
Commonwealth Holdings plc. He then became Divisional Director, Business
Services Europe for BET plc until its acquisition by Rentokil-Initial plc in
1996.

In 1996, he left Rentokil-Initial plc to take up the full-time role of
Chief Executive Officer of WILink.

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www.ariadnecapital.com/investor.htm