Our Vision
Capital markets should be more accessible for companies regardless of their size, market, or type of deal. We are on a mission to make raising capital easier, faster, and cheaper. For overall efficiency, market participants need easy to use digital tools that allow them to collaborate, streamline their processes, and remove the manual, time-consuming, repetitive. Technology is key to realising that vision.
For overall market efficiency, market participants need to collaborate and their processes need to be streamlined and structured. We use technology to create an ecosystem for market participants, be it lawyers, bankers, advisors, issuers or regulators.
Our Story
We have believed in the digitisation of capital markets documentation for a long time. Founded by people who worked in the sector who found the old manual process old-fashioned, frustrating and incredibly time-consuming. We got our first beta product into the market in 2016. Since then, professionals who are equally frustrated have been adopting the product. No more taking comments on old versions, no more waiting for hours for typeset versions, no more nightmares of creating verification lists.
Our journey in capital markets has been unique and we have always believed in solving todays problems. We focus on non-trading processes and today’s problems in capital markets allowing market participants to collaborate using structured data on capital markets transactions. Simpler, faster, digital with ScribeStar.
Our Team
We are a diverse team of individuals who are bound together by the love of technology and the excitement of capital markets and what their future brings. With many different nationalities, career backgrounds, skillsets, and definitely characters, we believe these differences nurture our ideas, give us new perspectives, help our decision-making, and improve our performance. ScribeStar’s collaborative platform is a reflection of our culture. We are always on the lookout for new team members.
If you believe you can contribute to our mission, please reach out to us!
Srinivas Suravarapu
Adam Shaw
Damir Cimer
Robert Westmacott
David Krucik
Greg Lunn
Andrew Prozes
Srinivas Suravarapu
A qualified engineer with a MBA in Innovation & Strategy, he has led product innovation and engineering of commercially viable products in early/growth stage fin-tech and digital media businesses. His expertise includes building strong engineering teams, delivering minimum viable products and evaluation of technology businesses for strategic acquisitions and partnerships. He has an in-depth understanding of the capital market structures and of the technology landscape across legal and financial services.
Sri joined as Chief Architect and now manages the technology and commercial roadmap for ScribeStar
Adam Shaw
Adam is a Founder of Scribestar and has a background in investment banking and private equity.
Adam has worked on many public and private transactions. He was recently a partner at L1 Retail from 2016 to 2019, doing large PE deals. Prior to this he did SME PE at Manfield Partners from 2010 to 2016. Prior to this he led the UK arm of an Icelandic investment firm, was UK head of M&A for Kaupthing Bank and at Enskilda Securities.
Adam was one of the founders of ScribeStar and helped with its funding from 2010 to 2013 before rejoining in 2019.
Damir Cimer
Damir joined the team in 2020 and now manages our operations, innovation and strategy roadmap, partnerships, and our relationships with stock exchanges. He has a background in banking, project management, regulatory policy, and international affairs. He was recently the Adviser to the Board of European Bank for Reconstruction from 2015 to 2019, focusing on innovation, strategy, and business development. Prior to that he was with the Government of Croatia where he was in charge of managing fiscal consolidation and structural reforms, including overarching digital transformation efforts. He also spent 8 years working for OECD in the SEE and Central Asia on infrastructure financing and Public-Private Partnerships. In his (limited) free time he is one of the Directors of the British Croatian Chamber of Commerce and Co-founder of Global Tech Connect – the alliance of UK-based International Startup Programmes.
He has a deep understanding of international financial markets, stakeholders, and technology trends, and a particular interest in ESG matters in relation to capital markets.
Robert Westmacott
Rob is a Founder of Scribestar and up until 2015, he was CEO. As CEO, he led the development and evolution of Scribestar while helping to raise funding to grow the business. Previously, he held senior sales and business development roles in fast-growing technology and print-related businesses, serving the Capital Markets sector. He is an EC Council certified Blockchain Professional, and he is also on the board of a “Privacy Tech” start-up, called Guardum.
David Krucik
David Krucik has been with Scribestar as a board member since 2012. He is a senior partner of the international strategic consultancy OC&C. He specialises in strategic advisory for clients in the consumer, retail, technology and business services sectors. He was managing partner for OC&C from 2016 to 2017 and oversaw its expansion to 14 countries around the world. Prior to OC&C David was a consultant for Kalchas Group and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Greg Lunn
Greg is a qualified lawyer and an ex Army officer with extensive international experience inside and outside the legal profession. From 2006 to 2013 he was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Lancashire Holdings Limited, an insurance and reinsurance group listed on the London Stock Exchange. His legal work has covered an extensive array of legal transactions over many years, including M&A, capital markets and advising on corporate legal issues.
Andrew Prozes
Andrew has extensive experience in both technology businesses and service providers to the legal sector. He served as CEO of LexisNexis and was on the Board of Directors of Reed Elsevier from 2000 until 2010. Today he serves as Executive Chairman of Alert Global Media (ACAMS), and on the boards of Transunion, Interactive Data Corporation, Asset International, Synaptive, and Ethoca. During Andrew’s tenure, LexisNexis grew from $1.7 billion in 2000 to over $4 billion.
