JustInvesting appoints Bob Wigley as chair
FORMER Merrill Lynch chairman of EMEA operations Bob Wigley has been appointed as chairman of online investment platform JustInvesting.
JustInvesting was founded in 2012 to allow angel investors, wealth managers, institutional investors and government organisations a way to access and invest in early-stage private companies.
“Enabling investors to deploy capital into the large number of exciting early-stage businesses that sit just below Aim is a unique proposition and something that I believe will be embraced,” said Wigley. “It is a market that has traditionally been difficult to target. JustInvesting is addressing this gap, creating a new asset class and enabling early-stage businesses to access finance and achieve their growth potential.”
Wigley ran Merrill Lynch’s EMEA operations for 13 years until 2009.