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Jon Andrew
Co-founder

Jon co-founded Ārahi in 2021 having spent two decades in Private Equity Value Creation. When he met Rupert, the two immediately bonded over a shared frustration with the often-suboptimal relationship between investors and the businesses they back. Both passionately agreed that there must be a better way. 

Jon started his career with PwC where he worked across the Audit, Training and Transaction Services functions. 

He subsequently moved into Private Equity, where he spent more than 13 years in senior roles at Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) and Inflexion, establishing and leading the value creation functions at both firms. 

Jon is a veteran of over 100 value creation programmes and has held a wide variety of roles including CFO, COO, CIO, Executive Chair, and Non-Executive Chair. He currently serves as Chair of a Bridges Fund Management business, Nexgen Services. 

Jon is an authority in the Private Equity industry, he leads several flagship courses for the British Venture Capital Association, and is a regular speaker for PEP-Talks, a peer-to-peer network for investment-backed CEOs. Jon is a published author with Strategic Value Creation (2024) which he wrote together with Rupert Morrison.  

Jon holds a BSc in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from the University of Durham and is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. 

Jon Andrew

“We set up this business because we felt there had to be a better way to improve the odds of achieving success. It is the business I was born to be in – working with boards to help them be more effective and using technology to do so. The whole team embodies this approach. Developers and consultants alike, we will spend hours solving problems like the effectiveness of a dashboard or a piece of commentary in a board pack. And as geeky as that may sound, that’s why I love it.”