An entrepreneurial-minded team who share a simple ambition.
IMS Group unites deep expertise across digital assets, private markets, risk management from its equity partnership of investors, operators, and family office principals. The partnership is underpinned by proprietary technology that has been developed over the past ten years in its internal research and development lab.
Our ambition is simple: to shape and participate in rare, often off-market opportunities alongside founders, sovereigns, and top-tier institutions.
Each equity partner contributes deal flow, distribution and capital from their own ecosystem, creating a flywheel where every new relationship strengthens the platform and compounds the opportunity set for the whole IMS Group. Partners also have the ability to coinvest alongside IMS on favourable terms, sharing in the economics of the transactions they help originate and build.
Anastasios founded IMS in 2016 and subsequently established IMS Digital Ventures, merging operational experience with the ecosystem advantage of a multi-generational family-office network. He leads the Group across all four operating divisions, sets the investment thesis, and represents the partnership across the global network.
Trained in mergers and acquisitions at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Anastasios brought institutional rigour to a model that built proprietary technology before it raised external capital. The result is a Group anchored by ten years of compounded R&D, a family-office network that anchors every commitment, and an investment management business built for the underserved corners of private capital.
He holds a Law degree and a Management degree from HEC Paris.
Operational partners.
Meet the operators driving IMS Group across investment, technology, and the family-office network.
Dennis Plomp
Dennis joined IMS in 2020. He brings with him twenty years of experience in PE & VC investments and M&A advisory across Europe and Asia. Dennis has a successful track-record of corporate finance transactions in various industries with companies ranging from start-ups to stock listed corporates.
Dennis held roles at among others Nest Ventures, Oaklins and Gimv Private Equity, and is an active advisor and mentor to tech start-ups and SMEs in Hong Kong.
Ed Myer
Ed(ward) Myer was appointed Partner at IMS Digital Ventures in 2023. Ed is responsible for investments at the Myer Family’s Yulgilbar Group of Companies and a Non-Executive Director at private investment company Wallaby Downs. Ed is the co-founder of Horizons, a global network of Next-Generation family offices focusing on investment, education, collaboration and networking.
Previously, Ed worked at Pendal Group, one of Australia’s leading Fund Management businesses with over $100bn under management across Asia, America and Europe. Ed also spent three years building a new mobility start-up, Placie, backed by $8bn ASX-listed company Carsales.com. Prior to this, Ed spent three years in Hong Kong working for JP Morgan in their Chief Investment Office and Treasury departments.
Angus Walker
Angus brings over 10 years of investment experience, providing insights and strategic thinking to the IMS operating team. Most recently, Angus worked for 8 years as a Senior Analyst in the investment team at a Hong Kong-based asset management firm. His research and insights focus on global growth equities across both listed hedge fund and unlisted venture capital portfolios — specialising in technology, financial services and healthcare sectors.
During his investment career, Angus held Non-Executive Director and Advisor roles to a number of investee companies, helping to shape corporate strategy and consult on capital structure. Angus began his career as part of the Group Strategy team for Commonwealth Bank of Australia, expanding the firm’s digital banking presence and entry into frontier markets in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa through a mixture of organic growth and M&A.
Vatche Manoukian
Vatche joined IMS as a partner in January 2024. He began his professional career in the UK as a Project Finance lawyer at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner before moving to the US to help a private family office build, develop and operate one of the largest and most successful gaming and entertainment companies in the world.
He leveraged his experience with building businesses and project execution to start investing in and joining the boards of early stage CPG marketing platform ventures such as Wecheer.IO and renewable energy technology ventures such as Standard Gas Technologies.
Vatche received his LLB Hons law degree from University College London, along with completing the Venture Capital Executive Education programme at Columbia University Business School.
Robert Pugsley
Robert has spent his career investing in and building successful, pioneering enterprises, and his collegiate approach has empowered them to maximise their potential. From foreign exchange, tech and biotech firms to high growth SMEs in Africa, his portfolio is as broad as his interests.
Manuela Buerki
Lawyer by training, venture capitalist by trade, Manuela is a founding member of IMS. She oversees the strategic expansion of our portfolio companies and lends her social media, growth marketing, and community-building expertise to developing their go-to market strategies.
Prior to IMS, Manuela gained experience in policy development, compliance, and risk management: from negotiating the Brexit and European Venture Capital negotiations on behalf of the French Market Authority to lobbying liquidity ratios under Basel III for the Bank of England.
She has a Master’s degree in Finance, Regulation, and Risk Management from Sciences-Po, Paris, as well as a law degree from UCL.
Harry McPhail
Harry joined IMS Digital Ventures to lead the UK activities across the portfolio of companies.
Before joining IMS Digital Ventures, he played a strategic role in a boutique consultancy working with high growth software companies as they scale into new markets. He worked with founders and board directors delivering projects with access to capital, talent and advisory services to support go to market strategies.
Immigrating to London in 2015, he has immersed himself in the venture space in Europe as an angel investor and is passionate about the shifting intersection of talent, capital and technology.
He holds Business Management and French degrees from University of Otago in New Zealand.
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