Special Situations
& Growth Investing

Gatemore is a principal investor with a highly engaged and flexible approach across public and private markets. Founded in 2005 and with offices in Colorado and London, Gatemore maintains a deliberately concentrated portfolio, committing capital and focus to a select number of targeted opportunities where close partnership with management teams, boards and shareholders can deliver substantial value for businesses as well as investors.

Gatemore holds a controlling stake in GSE Worldwide, a leading sports agency and events company based in New York and Los Angeles.

Gatemore, along with its affiliate GVP Climate, is a lead investor in Factorial Energy, a global leader solid-state battery technology based in Boston.

Gatemore is a lead investor in Adronite, developer of groundbreaking AI-powered codebase intelligence technology based in Seattle.

Liad

Liad Meidar

Managing Partner

Lawrence Small

Larry Small

Partner & General Counsel

Matthew Scarborough

Vice President

David Cassells

Chief Financial Officer

Daisy

Daisy Clarke

Operations Manager

Gatemore Capital Management

Colorado
520 E. Cooper Avenue, Suite C7
Aspen, CO 81611
+1 (212) 251 6700

London
33 Cavendish Square
London, W1G 0PW
+44 (0) 207 580 0300

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Colorado

520 E. Cooper Avenue, Suite C7
Aspen, CO 81611
+1 (970) 746 4790

London

33 Cavendish Square
London, W1G 0PW
+44 (0) 207 580 0300

Liad

Liad Meidar

Managing Partner

Liad Meidar is the Founder and Managing Partner of Gatemore Capital Management, a principal investment firm with a highly engaged, flexible approach across public and private markets.

Since founding the firm in 2005, Liad has led the firm’s investments across turnarounds, carve-outs, special situations, and venture. Highlights include:

  • DX Group PLC (2017): Led the rescue financing and turnaround of the AIM-listed logistics firm, took a 35% stake, and became its largest shareholder, subsequently joining the board and driving major management, governance, and operational improvements that took the business from loss-making to industry-leading profitability over six years.
  • GSE Worldwide, Inc. (2018): Spearheaded the carve-out and take-private of the US sports agency from its distressed AIM-listed parent. Gatemore holds a control position, and Liad serves as Executive Chairman, supporting the company’s growth across talent representation and events.
  • Factorial Energy, Inc. (2019): Backed the solid-state battery developer, now NASDAQ-listed, alongside strategic partners Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis. Liad has served on the board since 2022.
  • Adronite, Inc. (2025): Led an investment into the developer of AI-powered codebase intelligence technology, where he serves as Chairman.

Liad also has extensive experience in shareholder activism across the consumer, industrial, media, and technology sectors, where Gatemore engages with management teams, boards, and fellow shareholders in listed small caps to drive significant recoveries in shareholder value.

In 2021, Liad launched GVP Climate, a Gatemore subsidiary and an experienced, active investor backing climate-tech companies, in partnership with its Chairman and CIO, Brett Olsher. He now serves as an advisor to GVP Climate’s investment committee.

Liad currently sits on the boards of five Gatemore portfolio companies: GSE Worldwide (Executive Chairman); Adronite (Chairman); Factorial Energy; Malibu Life Holdings Limited, an LSE-listed fixed annuity provider; and SurvivorNet, Inc., a health-focused online media company.

Liad holds an AB in Economics from Princeton University, where he serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council.

Lawrence Small

Larry Small

Partner & General Counsel

Larry serves as Gatemore’s General Counsel and is responsible for all legal aspects with respect to the Firm.

Until July 2023, Larry was a Partner and the General Counsel of Valence8, a boutique investment office, where he was a member of the management committee and responsible for overseeing all legal aspects of the Firm’s managed investment funds and advisory businesses.

Prior to Valence8, from 2004 to 2022, Larry was a Partner and the General Counsel of Cabot Square Capital, a London-based private equity firm, where he sat on the investment and operations committees. At Cabot, he was responsible for transaction structuring, negotiation, and execution across the Firm’s pan-European investment funds, including M&A, financings, reorganisations and realisations.

Larry began his career in London as part of the US capital markets practice of law firm Clifford Chance, where he was an associate from 1999 to 2004.

In addition, Larry serves on the President’s Advisory Council on Economics at Brown University. Larry earned a JD from Yale Law School and has an M. Litt in History from Cambridge University and a BA in History from Brown University. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 2000.

Matthew Scarborough

Vice President

Matthew is a vice president on the investment team.

Prior to joining Gatemore, Matthew was an Associate at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division where he advised clients on a wide range of transactions including M&A and financings, as well as general corporate finance and strategy.

Matthew graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) in Mechatronics and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance and Economics) from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He also completed part of his studies at University College London.

David Cassells

Chief Financial Officer

David Cassells is responsible for finance, operations and compliance.

Prior to joining Gatemore, David worked as group Accountant for G.H. Financials Ltd, an FCA-regulated global clearing and settlements company, where he produced year-end audited statutory accounts for three entities in the UK, US and Hong Kong and ensured the firm was FCA compliant, with particular focus on client money regulations. Prior to that, David worked at Klesch Group and was responsible for the accounting function of the FCA regulated company as well as three Swiss-based entities. Previous to this David worked as an Assistant accountant for the asset management branch of Babcock & Brown.

David is a board member of Gatemore portfolio company GSE Worldwide, Inc., a fully integrated talent management and sports agency. He received a BA in Business Economics from Leicester University and is an ACCA qualified accountant.


Daisy

Daisy Clarke

Operations Manager

Daisy is a key member of the Operations team and is responsible for overseeing the business processes and procedures.

Prior to joining Gatemore, Daisy was an Executive Assistant to the Branson family at Virgin Management and held a number of executive assistant roles within the music industry and family offices.

Daisy attended the University of Manchester and has an Executive Secretarial Qualification from Quest Professional.

 

George Cadbury

Partner

George Cadbury is responsible for all aspects of business and strategic development.

His previous experience includes the Head of Business Development and President of the largest independent hedge fund platform in the UK in 2007, PCE Investors, with peak assets of $3 billion.

George was also Managing Director of an independent Irish UCITS platform – Merchant Capital. Prior to joining Merchant Capital, George was Managing Director in Europe for Ubequity Capital, a Canadian private equity firm. He was also Head of European Operations for Mondore General Trading, a physical commodity trader.

George is a board member of Gatemore portfolio company GSE Worldwide, Inc., a fully integrated talent management and sports agency. He graduated with a BA in History from Exeter University.