Mark Beeston

Mark Beeston is the Managing Partner and founder of Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital firm focussed on financial services technology currently investing from its third Series A fund and its first Series B fund. Illuminate Financial actively partners with major participants in the financial services industry and across it’s two active funds numbers twelve strategic partner LP’s drawn from the largest global names in banking, finance and markets infrastructure.

Mark launched the firm in 2014 after over 20 years experience across capital markets where he had been both the consumer of financial markets technology as well as the entrepreneur (T-Zero / Creditex), operator (ICAP), and early stage funder of successful capital markets businesses.

Prior to founding Illuminate, Mark was an Excecutive Committee Member at ICAP as the CEO for the Post Trade Risk and Information business (now Osttra, a KKR portfolio company) and where he also oversaw the creation of ICAP’s own investment subsidiary. Before ICAP Mark was on the Executive Committee of the interdealer broker Creditex Group (a TA Associates portfolio company), where he was President of their credit derivatives trade processing platform. This resulted in the successful acquisition of the Creditex Group by ICE in 2008. Mark began his career with 13 years at Deutsche Bank including periods as COO for both the Global Rates and Global Credit businesses following a decade of running various Fixed Income derivative trading businesses.

Mark has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).