Jonathan Seal
Chief executive, Regal London
Seal started his career as a trainee solicitor with Lovell White Durrant in 1997, qualifying into the corporate finance department and specialising in M&A and private equity. He subsequently moved away from the law into investment banking and then went on to spend 20-plus years in private equity, latterly as a partner at Nova Capital, managing its European secondary business. Seal joined Regal London in 2016 as a non-executive director to spearhead its strategic growth plans and subsequently moved into a full-time role. Seal is also a non-executive director of Modulous, an early stage proptech company.