Lisa Shaw Taylor

Lisa Shaw-Taylor is a London-based finance executive with more than a decade of experience in private equity. She trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG (in South Africa), and her earlier career spans senior finance roles at market-research and media businesses including TNS and Aegis Media, as well as International Port Holdings, before she moved fully into the private-equity world.

For several years she served as Chief Financial Officer of Alpina Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm operating out of London and Munich (formerly known as WHEB Partners) with over €300 million in assets under management. In that role she was responsible for the firm's finance function across its fund vehicles rather than for sourcing or leading investments — Alpina's investing partners are Dr. Florian Strehle and Sebastian Canzler.

In 2024 she joined Piper, a UK consumer-brand growth investor, as Head of Finance, where she leads the firm's finance function. Across her private-equity career (roughly 13 years) she has focused on fund finance, operations, and reporting rather than deal-making.

Lisa Shaw-Taylor is a finance-function leader, so an individual investment thesis is not publicly documented. The relevant thesis is that of the firms she has supported:

• Piper (current employer): growth investment in UK consumer brands.
• Alpina Partners (former employer): European technology growth capital and buyouts, targeting companies with a minimum of ~€5 million in revenue and positive EBITDA, clear technical USPs, and enterprise values roughly in the €10–€50 million range.
• Alpina sectors: B2B software, tech-enabled business services, and industrial technologies.
• Alpina geography: Europe, with a special focus on the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and the UK.
• No public record indicates she personally deploys angel/seed capital.

No personal angel or seed investments by Lisa Shaw-Taylor are documented in public sources. As a finance executive she supports fund-level activity rather than making named deals in her own name; consequently there is no verifiable individual portfolio to list. (Alpina Partners reports 23+ portfolio investments at the firm level, but these are firm deals led by its investing partners, not attributable to her.)