Michael Comish born 1965

Michael joined Hanover in September 2020 as Operating Partner having spent 15 years starting, scaling and selling Technology businesses.

Michael was previously a Director in the Operations group at TPG , working primarily on TPG’s digital businesses in Europe and North America.

Prior to TPG, Michael co-founded AirTV in Germany (acquired by Freenet) and blinkbox in the UK (acquired by Tesco) where he also served as Tesco’s Chief Digital officer. The early part of his career was spent in consulting where he was a Partner at Mercer Management.

Michael graduated from the University of Western Ontario and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Matthew Peacock born 1961

Matthew Peacock founded Hanover Investors in 2002.

In his early career he ran International M&A in London for Barclays BZW, following work in NY and London for CSFB. Over the 1990s he led a series of successful private transactions as a lead shareholder and CEO.

Since then, Matthew has led multiple PLC boards including 4imprint, Fairpoint, Elementis & Regenersis.

Matthew has deep industry experience across the outsourced services, industrial and financial sectors.

He holds an LLM in Law from Cambridge University and was one of the founding Trustees of Charity Technology Trust.