Shamik J Parekh

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Shamik J Parekh is a founding partner of Havilland Health, a UK healthtech advisory that helps international medtech and digital health companies enter the UK health system and supports British healthtech businesses expanding into the US, India and the Middle East. The firm works with companies that have proven products, regulatory clearance and established traction.

Before Havilland, Parekh spent close to four years as an early-stage healthtech investor at Octopus Ventures, where he was one of the founding members of the firm's dedicated TenX Health fund alongside Joe Stringer and Dr Pooja Sikka. He sat on the boards of portfolio companies including Little Journey and Mango Sciences. He later joined HSBC Innovation Banking on the early-stage healthtech team. Earlier in his career he worked at California-based CerraCap Ventures and at a boutique commodities-focused hedge fund.

He holds an MSc in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter, where his dissertation examined private equity buy-and-build strategies. He has mentored healthtech founders through Enterprise Ireland's Digital Health programme and continues to advise early-stage healthtech companies.