Hazel Moore

Hazel Moore OBE is a mergers, acquisitions and venture capital specialist. Hazel Moore is the co-founder and chairman of FirstCapital, an investment bank which provides mergers and acquisitions, private equity and growth capital advice to high growth technology companies.

Moore graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1990. After a short period working as an engineer for GEC Marconi, Moore went to Hong Kong and joined WI Carr as an equity analyst.

Moore founded FirstCapital in 1999 with current CEO Jason Purcell.

Moore joined the board of Innovate UK in 2012.

Moore received an OBE in the 2017 New Year's Honours list for services to Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She was given her OBE at by HRH Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on 17 February 2017.