Nick joined Motion Ventures as a Venture Partner in April 2026. He works with portfolio companies on performance and exit readiness. Having spent the best part of a decade buying, building, running and selling maritime digital businesses, he brings an acquirer's view of what makes a company worth buying. Nick is Group Strategy and Corporate Development Director at Lloyd's Register, the global maritime classification and professional services group. He owns the Group's growth strategy, partnerships, acquisitions and divestments. He led the transaction to acquire Ocean Technologies Group and restructured the Group's balance sheet to create a separately financed digital business. In 2025 he served as Interim Co-CEO of Lloyd's Register's combined digital businesses, serving 30,000 vessels and more than a million seafarers. Before that, Nick spent five years at Equistone-backed OneOcean Group as Corporate Development Director and Interim Chief Commercial Officer. He ran M&A end to end, transformed OneOcean into a subscription-based software and services business, and led its sale to Lloyd's Register. Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade across a range of roles in private equity, leveraged finance, corporate development and general management, including turning around and selling a sports data consultancy. Nick holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School and an MA in Geography from Cambridge. (Motion Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund Manager regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Nick Copley serves in an independent advisory capacity.)