Meet Ocean Technology Group’s Board of Directors

Alex Collins is Partner at Oakley Capital. He joined Oakley in 2007 and has over 19 years of private equity investment and operational experience.

Alex’s focus at Oakley is primarily on deal origination, execution, portfolio management and realisation. Alex began his career at GE Capital in 1995 before being seconded to Advent International for two years as Associate Director. He subsequently joined Henderson Private Capital as Principal.

Alex joined Oakley in 2007 from Wharfedale Capital where he was a Partner involved in purchasing secondary assets.

Sam Fenton-Whittet is Partner at Oakley Capital. Sam joined Oakley in 2015 and focuses primarily on deal origination, execution and investment advice. During his time at Oakley, Sam has worked on Oakley’s investments in Time Out Market, IU Group, Schülerhilfe, Inspired, Ocean Technologies Group and ICP Education.

Prior to joining Oakley, Sam was Speechwriter and Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. He previously worked in a number of finance positions in HM Treasury, including as senior adviser responsible for coordinating the government’s £40bn annual capital budget.

Sam holds an MA (Oxon) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford.

Thomas Zanzinger is Chief Executive Officer at Ocean Technologies Group. He brings over 30 years of leadership experience working at global SaaS and software vendors that provide mission critical Enterprise B2B solutions.

Most recently he served as CEO at inriver, a global leader in digitization through product information management. At inriver Thomas accelerated international growth across all regions, increased customer retention, brought new and additional solutions to market as well as added strategic capabilities via M&A. Prior to Inriver Thomas worked for software engineering simulation and 3D design software business ANSYS as well as market-leading companies Aptean and Software AG.

Matthew O’Sullivan is Chief Financial Officer of Ocean Technologies Group. An experienced Chartered Accountant, Matthew has held CFO positions in a number of fast-growing entrepreneurial businesses.

He started working in private equity backed businesses in 1994 and since then has gained extensive experience in a variety of companies, executing 3 trade sales, 3 management buy-outs and worked with 11 different private equity investors. He has worked on multiple financing structures, company reorganisations and M&A transactions in that time leading to positive business transformations in multiple sectors.

He mentors other CFOs and is a Business Mentor with The Prince’s Trust through which he has given guidance to a number of young entrepreneurs. He also volunteers for St Mungo’s, a homelessness charity and a number of other charities close to his home in the South East UK.