Sam Tidswell-Norrish is part of the founding team at Motive Partners and joined at inception in 2015, where he is a Managing Director on the Investor Relations Team, leading on Investor Coverage and Marketing, and based out of the London office. Sam served as EVP & CMO of Dun & Bradstreet International, a former Motive Partners portfolio firm, where he led the company’s international re-positioning and was focused on marketing, communications and business development prior to the NYSE IPO and subsequent divestment.

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Prior to joining Motive, Sam worked for Monitise Plc as Vice President and subsequently was Group Chief of Staff, where he focused on the firm’s operations and strategy. Prior to that, Sam spent nearly five years at Barclays Capital, in the Equity Finance Group. Sam currently sits on the Board of the Chief of Staff Association and the Board of the World Wide Web Foundation, an organization established in 2009 by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee, to advance the open web as a public good and basic right.

Sam is also the Chair of the Board & Founder of the social enterprise, OPUS, that convenes world-class entrepreneurs globally. Sam received a Master of Science in International Business at Leeds University Business School. Sam has also participated in Harvard Business School executive education courses in recent years.

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Managing Director