Tom Sooke, a Cambridge Economics graduate, qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse to be followed by an MBA from Columbia University , New York. As a main board director at Granville Holdings in the 1980's, Tom established and ran its principal venture capital fund activities. Whilst at Granville, he was also a co-founding member of the British Venture Capital Association. Subsequently, he became a corporate finance partner with Deloitte & Touche until 1990. In recent years, Tom has sat on the boards of quoted and unquoted private equity funds and other companies as an independent director. He has been associated with BRAXXON for over ten years.