Our team has decades of investment expertise combined with in-depth technology know-how and a truly entrepreneurial approach.

Our Team

Our unique insights and market knowledge enable us to arrange the best possible solution for your financial needs.

Our team members have advised and supported growth companies across different industries and development stages raising from several to hundreds of millions in capital.

We firmly believe in the businesses we support, a sentiment shared by their other investors, many of whom are internationally respected venture capital and private equity funds.

Susan Draper

General Counsel
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Harsh Patel

Partner
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AJ Shazad

Partner
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Harsh Patel is a Partner at Global Growth Capital. Prior to founding Global Growth Capital, he headed up the non-US business for Victory Park Capital, a leading global credit investor in technology businesses with over $4 billion of investments. Previously, Harsh was responsible for sourcing, structuring and managing a multi-billion dollar portfolio of credit and non-correlated investments at Abu Dhabi Investment Council. He also worked in the EMEA Credit Trading Group at Citigroup, focusing on distressed and special situations.

Harsh received a B.S. in Actuarial Science with Honours from Cass Business School in London.
AJ Shazad is a partner at Global Growth Capital. Prior to joining Global Growth Capital in February 2020, he was the Head of Credit at Zorin Finance – a leading provider of private credit to UK based property developers and investors with close to £1 billion of investments. Having been institutionally trained at Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland, he has actively invested in the alternative credit sector since 2013 and held senior management roles since 2016. AJ received a First Class BA (Hons) in Financial Mathematics from London Metropolitan Business School.
Susan is the General Counsel at Global Growth Capital.   Prior to joining, Susan was Head of Legal for Bupa UK, and prior to that Head of Product and Distribution Legal and Head of Credit Legal for Barclays Wealth and Investment Management.  Susan started her career as a finance associate at Allen & Overy followed by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and partnership at Olswang in 2006.  For the past 20 years Susan has been involved in broad range of debt transactions internationally covering a wide range of transactions including corporate lending, private equity finance and real estate finance, and also including cross border transactions involving a range of security types.
 
Susan received her B.A. (Hons) Law from Oxford University followed by her LPC from Nottingham Law School.