Announcement • May 08
IP Group Plc Announces Board Changes, Effective June 18, 2026 IP Group Plc announced the appointment of Michael Queen as Non-executive Director and Chair Designate. Michael will succeed Sir Douglas Flint, CBE, as Chair of the Board following IP Group's Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2026, when Sir Douglas will retire from the Board after almost eight years of service. Michael was formerly Chief Executive of 3i Group plc, the global investment company where after 25 years he retired in 2012 having developed 3i's activities in the infrastructure sector through founding 3i Infrastructure plc. He is currently Chair of Coller Capital Ltd, a UK based international Private Equity Group, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Surrey, Chair of Thames Tideway Tunnel and a non-executive director of TAQA, a Middle East based industrial group. He has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, having been a member of the Prime Ministers Business Advisory Group from 2010 to 2012 and having been seconded to HM Treasury in 1994 to help to develop the potential for the Private Finance Initiative in the NHS as Head of the NHS Private Finance Unit. In 2002 Michael was Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and he was also President of Surrey 100, a Business Angel Group attached to the University of Surrey from 2012 to 2018. Michael has a BA (Hons) Industrial Economics from Nottingham University and is a Chartered Accountant. Sir Douglas Flint, CBE, will retire from the Board after almost eight years of service. Announcement • Apr 16
IP Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 18, 2026 IP Group Plc, Annual General Meeting, Jun 18, 2026. Location: the offices of the company, 3 pancras square, kings cross, n1c 4ag, london United Kingdom Announcement • Mar 30
IP Group PLC Announces Launch Of IP Group Climate Catalyst Fund With Clean Energy Finance Corporation IP Group plc announced that it has launched the IP Group Climate Catalyst Fund with Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). The new fund will help scale Australian technologies that can decarbonise hard-to-abate industries and has a target size of up to AUD 150 million. The IP Group Climate Catalyst Fund will target Seed and Series A investments in areas including industrial processes (cement, steel and chemicals); mineral processing and supply chain; heavy transport (aviation, shipping and freight); energy-efficient AI and data centres; agriculture and land use; and dispatchable energy and grid balancing. First close of the fund has been reached with IP Group contributing AUD 30 million and CEFC AUD 20 million as cornerstone investors. Fundraising is underway to bring additional third party investors into the Fund. In Australia, IP Group's cleantech portfolio includes Hysata, developing the world's most efficient hydrogen electrolyser; Electralith, an innovator in lithium extraction and refining; Optigrid, an asset optimisation platform for grid-scale batteries; and Banksia Minerals Processing, which is developing a novel process for refining copper from challenging ores. IP Group currently manages over GBP 500 million in third-party capital, including a AUD 435 million mandate for Hostplus, one of Australia's top ten superannuation funds. The IP Group Hostplus Innovation fund, managed by the Group's Australian team, has already supported a range of IP Group portfolio companies including Oxford Nanopore, Genomics, First Light Fusion, Oxa and Hysata, providing additive growth capital as these businesses scale.