Andrew Cavaghan

Andrew is Executive Director of Blue, having been CEO and then Executive Chairman of Joule Africa since 2011.

Previously, Andrew was a Director at the UK-based private equity firm Octopus Investments. He was part of the original investment team whose performance helped increase funds under management from £20m in 2004 to over £800m when he left in 2009 (funds under management are now over £8bn). During his time at Octopus, Andrew was responsible for numerous middle market buy-outs, realising an IRR of over 26% over 5 years with four successful trade sales and two IPOs. Earlier, Andrew was part of the founding team at London Seed Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund owned by Greater London Enterprise. Andrew, spent an early part of his career working at corporate law firm Theodore Goddard, (now Addleshaw Goddard) in the corporate finance department of their London office.

Andrew holds a BA Hons in Philosophy from University College London and is a qualified Barrister in the UK.