Mark Spiteri | Portfolio CTO, Montagu

Career History

Dr Mark Spiteri is a Partner and Portfolio CTO in Montagu Private Equity’s Full Potential Partners team. He works with investment teams, boards, CEOs and technology leaders across the investment lifecycle, spanning technology, product, cybersecurity and AI due diligence, value creation, transformation and board-level oversight.

Mark focuses on the areas where technology most directly affects the investment thesis, customer value and business performance. He helps portfolio companies strengthen product strategy, software engineering, platform modernisation, cyber resilience, data foundations and delivery performance. He also leads AI adoption across the portfolio, helping businesses progress from experimentation to responsible, scalable applications that improve customer outcomes, productivity, margins and product defensibility.

Previously, Mark was SVP of Software Engineering at Experian, Chief R&D Officer at FinancialForce and SVP of Engineering at Software AG. He also held senior engineering leadership roles at Progress Software, supporting the successful integration of multiple acquisitions. Earlier in his career, he built the engineering organisation at Apama, a Cambridge start-up that pioneered complex event processing and high-frequency algorithmic trading.

Mark holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Malta and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

About Montagu

Montagu Private Equity traces its roots to 1968, when Midland Bank acquired Montagu Trust, owner of the British merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co., and set up a private-equity division. After HSBC bought Midland Bank in 1992, the business became HSBC Private Equity. In a management buyout, Montagu’s leadership acquired 80% of the shares and restored the Montagu name.

Today Montagu is a leading private-equity firm headquartered in London, with around 150 employees and offices in Frankfurt, Luxembourg, New York and Paris. The firm focuses on five priority sectors: Healthcare, Financial Sector Services, Critical Data, Digital Infrastructure, and Education. The firm has a total assets under management (AUM) of approximately €15bn.