British Business Bank’s third-party arm BBB Investment Services receives approval to provide investment services to clients in first step towards British Growth Partnership launch

Non-executive Directors appointed

BBB Investment Services has appointed three Non-executive Directors to the Board, which will be Chaired by Louis Taylor, CEO, British Business Bank, effective from 7 May 2025.

Hazel Moore, OBE

Hazel is the Chair of FirstCapital, an international investment bank which provides mergers and acquisitions, private equity and growth capital advice to high growth technology companies which she founded in 1999. She was a Non-executive Director of British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, from 2019 until 2025. Previously Hazel was a Governing Board member of Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency, from 2012 until 2018; and has also held roles as a member of the Future Fifty advisory panel and on the Investment Advisory Panel of the North West Fund. Hazel was awarded an OBE in the 2017 New Years’ Honours list for services to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Tara Reeves

Tara has a track record in venture capital, investing in high growth private companies. She is a Managing Director at Eurazeo Digital, Eurazeo's flagship venture capital fund, as well as their specialist insuretech growth fund. She is also a co-founder of Turo, Inc., the peer-to-peer car sharing network, which has operations in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK with over 10m members and 350,000 car listings.

In 2019, Tara was part of the founding team of OMERS’s European series A&B venture fund. She started her venture career at seed fund LocalGlobe in 2015 where she was a Partner. Tara is a graduate of Oxford University and the Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

Mike Weston

Mike has a successful record of leading UK pension schemes and institutional asset management businesses in the private, public and charity sectors. He was previously Chief Executive of LGPS Central and the Pensions Infrastructure Platform, and the Chief Investment Officer for the pension schemes of Daily Mail & General Trust plc. In his portfolio career, Mike currently holds roles as Chair of Trustee Board and Independent Trustee, Institute of Cancer Research Pension Scheme, Accredited Professional Trustee Chair at Pi Partnership, Non-Executive Director at Wayhome, Senior Consultant at Avida International and Senior Advisor at Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP.