Max Royde

Max is a managing partner and co-founder of Kestrel Partners, an investment management company specialising in business-critical software companies. He joined the Aferian Plc Board on 4 April 2023. Max also holds board positions at companies including CentralNIC plc (domain name registry and related services), IQGeo plc (Geospatial productivity & collaboration software for the telecoms industry) and Trailight Ltd (cloud-based compliance technology) and has previously been a board member of various public companies including Gresham Technologies plc. He has been advising and investing in quoted and unquoted UK smaller companies since 1998 and prior to founding Kestrel Partners was a managing director of KBC Peel Hunt.