Since joining Buchanan from Journalism in 1985, Tim has advised on more than 100 flotations, high-profile M&A deals and has built a portfolio of retained clients. His experience covers a variety of sectors, countries and deal structures. He has also worked in the debt markets, although the equities have demanded substantially more of his time. Tim has built an expertise in healthcare, but remains active in many other sectors including hi-technology, support services and financial services. BA (Hons) Economics.
Peter joined Charles Stanley in 2002, having worked previously for Teather & Greenwood, Albert E Sharp, Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers and SG Warburg. He has specialised in the smaller companies sector for over 25 years, first as a salesman and subsequently as an analyst. He has focused on a number of sectors including Industrial Transportation (Shipbroking, Shipping and Marine Services sectors) as well as Distribution, Construction and Building Materials and Property Services among others. He covers a broad range of both Full List and AIM companies.
Leslie has worked in the media sector for over 12 years in an array of roles, including journalist, analyst, editor and executive director. He joined Vitesse in 1997 as a journalist on Growth Company Investor, ascending to the role of editorial director of Vitesse Media Plc by 2000, with responsibility for the delivery of Vitesse’s products across all platforms – online, events and print. Since mid 2006, Vitesse Media Plc has doubled in size, and Leslie has played a significant part in the integration of What Investment (purchased by the company in December 2006) and Information Age (purchased in December 2007). He was appointed to the role of chief operating officer in March 2008 and is also editor-in-chief of the company’s publications.
James Crux is editor of Growth Company Investor and GrowthCompany.co.uk. He covers a wide range of small-cap companies on both AIM and the Full List. He has been with the team for more than eight years.
Giles is the chief executive of Hargreave Hale Ltd. He commenced his career in 1969 with James Capel as a trainee analyst. In 1974, he joined Management Agency And Music Plc as a private fund manager. In 1986, he founded Hargreave Investment Management, which was merged in 1988 with Hargreave Hale & Co, a provincial stockbroking firm controlled by other members of his family. Since then Giles’s reputation within the industry has grown, and with the help of his team, his performance with the Marlborough Special Situations Fund has been exceptional.
Simon is the chief executive of KBC Peel Hunt. Previously head of corporate finance, he has over 12 years’ experience advising quoted companies on all aspects of corporate finance. KBC Peel Hunt is a leading adviser and broker to smaller companies and has won the AIM Adviser of the Year Award in each of the past five years.
Emma entered the world of PR in 1987, since when she has headed both in-house communications teams and external agencies. In January 2000, she founded Redleaf, to focus on delivering communications solutions to help organisations achieve their corporate goals. The Redleaf team was awarded Financial PR Company of the Year at the 2009 Growth Company Awards.
Tom Price has worked in the City, since 1990, as an equity capital markets corporate financier specializing in small/mid-cap companies with Evolution Securities (formerly Beeson Gregory); and Westhouse since 2009. In recent years he has focused on UK companies in consumer-facing sectors, and has also specialised in bringing Chinese and Indian companies to the UK stockmarket. He is chairman of the QCA Financial & Nominated Adviser Committee and is a London arts adviser to the Columbia Foundation.
Philip Rodrigs is portfolio manager of Investec’s UK Smaller Companies Fund, and is also a technology sector specialist in Investec Asset Management’s UK Equity team. Prior to joining Investec Asset Management, Philip worked for T. Rowe Price as a Pan European Associate analyst, specialising in small and mid cap stocks. He made a substantial contribution to the strong performance of both the small cap and specialist funds. Previously, he worked for Invesco as a graduate trainee Fund Manager, specialising in Pan-European equity. Philip graduated from Oxford University with an Honours degree in Economics and Management in 2002.
Philip is a corporate finance partner at Grant Thornton UK. He is a chartered accountant and an authorised nominated adviser and sponsor, with extensive experience in providing advice on a wide range of quoted public company transactions, including company flotations on AIM and the Official List, acquisitions and disposals, reverse takeovers and public company takeovers. In 2000, he returned from an 18-month secondment to the London Stock Exchange at which he worked with both the equity markets group, advising companies quoted on the Official List, and the AIM market team, where he advised and regulated AIM companies and market professionals. Philip is now a member of the London Stock Exchange AIM Advisory Group and chairman of the Quoted Companies Alliance Nominated Adviser Committee.
Graham Shore is the managing director of Shore Capital Group Plc, the investment banking group. He is responsible for Shore Capital’s corporate finance department and is also heavily involved in managing Shore Capital’s Puma VCTs and St Peter Port Capital, the AIM-listed pre-IPO fund. He was previously a management consultancy partner of Touche Ross (now Deloitte & Touche). Graham has a degree in PPE from Oxford and a Master’s degree in Economics from the LSE and has previously worked for the government as an economic adviser.
Richard qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in 1999, before joining the hedge fund boutique Bradshaw Asset Management as an Assistant Fund Manager. In 2001 he moved to SGAM and became Head of UK Small Company investments in 2002. He holds the CFA designation. Richard is a founding Partner at River and Mercantile Asset Management launching their first funds in August 2006. Richard is Research Director and as a Fund Manager he is focused on the UK Income Fund and the UK Small/Mid Cap strategies.
Gervais Williams joined Gartmore in 1993 and heads the award-winning smaller companies team. Gervais has been investing in the UK Small Caps sector since 1985. The UK & Irish Smaller Companies OEIC fund was set up in 1994 and is the top performer in its sector since that time. The Gartmore Irish Growth Investment Trust was set up in 1995, to capture the benefits of the Irish growth story, and has delivered substantial returns (32.3% over 5 years).
The AlphaGen Volantis market neutral hedge fund, set up in 2002, has generated over 260% for investors. In the pursuit of making good returns for clients, he remains convinced that the best returns can be found in the smaller quoted stocks hence his focus on the universe.
Gervais has sat on various DTI committees and is also a member of the LSE’s AIM Advisory Panel. He has won a number of Investment Awards since including Investor of the Year at the Quoted Companies Awards 2009.
Sara founded Vitesse Media Plc in 1997 and is its chairman and chief executive. Her role includes developing the acquisition strategy as well as leading the 50-strong London-based team. Sara is a well-known business author. Over two million copies of her book, The FT Guide to Business Start Up (formerly the Lloyds TSB Small Business Guide) have been published. She is a member of the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Advisory Group and holds the investment advice certificate and an MSc in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics.
John joined Tavistock from Cambridge University as the Company’s first graduate trainee in 1996. He is a champion of growing companies and led Tavistock’s move into AIM. More recently, John headed up the firm’s expansion into Asia. He became CEO in 2007.”
Tim is Head of Corporate Finance at Evolution Securities. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Whinney Murray (now Ernst & Young) and has since had over 25 years experience in investment banking and corporate broking at ANZ, Williams de Broë, Beeson Gregory and Evolution Securities, working with growth companies. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the QCA for 6 years. His experience covers a broad range of sectors and he has completed over 50 IPO's and numerous fundraisings and advisory mandates for growth companies.
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