Roy is a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, where he specialises in the telecommunications and business services sectors. Roy joined Amadeus as a director in May 2005, since then he has made investments in End2End, a mobile data solutions company that was sold to MACH in 2006, and sits on the board of Nomad Holdings, which supplies and operates networks providing true broadband connectivity to trains.

He has developed extensive skills in structuring deals and building companies through working at firms as diverse as Apax Partners, Providence Equity Partners, and latterly DB Capital Venture Partners, where Roy was Managing Partner. In between, he spent four years as Chief Financial Officer of Esprit Telecom Group, a NASDAQ-listed, pan-European, facilities-based, long-distance telephone operator that was acquired by GTS in 1999. Roy brings a mix of operating experience, financial expertise and broad deal-origination capability to Amadeus. He is also non-executive Chairman of Axon Group PLC, an LSE-listed company.

Roy holds an MBA from INSEAD, and won the Henry Ford II prize for coming top of his class. He received MEng and BA degrees in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University. He speaks French.