Experience

Old City Investment Partners

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Looking for high-quality niche investments and investment managers. Looking to help others. Looking to create win-wins for our clients and our investors, alongside whom we invest ourselves. http://www.oldcitycapital.com Looking for high-quality niche investments and investment managers. Looking to help others. Looking to create win-wins for our clients and our investors, alongside whom we invest ourselves. http://www.oldcitycapital.com



Diversifying Strategies Limited

• Director

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Diversifying Strategies Limited (DSL) is a London-based placement agent focused on alternative investments, including environmental investment opportunities and tail risk strategies. Our role is to join the dots between allocators seeking interesting, value-added strategies that provide strong diversification benefits, and asset managers running such strategies. Diversifying Strategies Limited (DSL) is a London-based placement agent focused on alternative investments, including environmental investment opportunities and tail risk strategies. Our role is to join the dots between allocators seeking interesting, value-added strategies that provide strong diversification benefits, and asset managers running such strategies.



Respira International Ltd

• Advisor

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Respira International provides carbon finance to unlock verified carbon emission reductions at scale. Its principal focus is the sustainable land-use sector that includes forestry, regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration. Respira underwrites carbon offsets and structures these for sale to corporations seeking to balance their unavoidable emissions. Respira International provides carbon finance to unlock verified carbon emission reductions at scale. Its principal focus is the sustainable land-use sector that includes forestry, regenerative agriculture and ecosystem restoration. Respira underwrites carbon offsets and structures these for sale to corporations seeking to balance their unavoidable emissions.



Global Harvester Holdings

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor

  • Jun 2019 - Dec 2022

  Global Harvester Holdings (GHH) is a hybrid merchant bank / placement business applying capital market solutions to combat climate change, primarily via decarbonisation, energy infrastructure, and regenerative agriculture. Mandates include illiquid as well as liquid investments spanning private equity, private credit and asset management opportunities. Where possible, GHH seeks to be a shareholder in the companies it works with. Global Harvester Holdings (GHH) is a hybrid merchant bank / placement business applying capital market solutions to combat climate change, primarily via decarbonisation, energy infrastructure, and regenerative agriculture. Mandates include illiquid as well as liquid investments spanning private equity, private credit and asset management opportunities. Where possible, GHH seeks to be a shareholder in the companies it works with.



Hilltop Fund Management LLP

• United Kingdom

• Founding partner

  • Jul 2009 - Jan 2019

  Founded in 2010, Hilltop pursued a strategy focused on delivering a truly idiosyncratic, non-correlated return profile. To do so the company focused on strategies which, themselves, targeted low, no or negative correlation. Whilst Hilltop’s mandate precluded us from investing in mangers which exhibit anything more than slight positive correlation, our core skill was identifying managers with a genuine, analysable edge, opportunity set or source of differentiation. Such managers are in a minority with far too many so-called hedge funds heavily (and perpetually) long biased but charging higher fees than long only managers. The Hilltop Core Select Fund delivered positive returns in seven out of eight years with sub 3% volatility and no correlation to equity markets. Whilst not an ‘emerging manager’ fund, Hilltop was happy to back emerging talent and had an excellent track record of doing so: Metacapital, Deer Park, Kestrel, Barak, CCI Tech, Northlander and Spruce Point were all managers backed when they had sub $50m under management and which went to build very successful businesses. Ultimately, Hilltop could not achieve the scale of AUM required to run a properly resourced business and a decision was taken in August 2018 to return capital to investors. Show less



Dexion Capital

• Think Tanks

• Director, Single Manager Marketing

  • May 2002 - Jun 2009

  Recruited as Dexion’s first employee with responsibility for promoting single manager hedge funds to investors. Played a pivotal role in Dexion’s development into highly successful boutique investment bank focused on hedge funds and other alternative investments. During my time in this role, I performed the following tasks: • Sourced, researched and selected hedge funds to represent, all of which performed strongly post selection. • Set up and managed Dexion’s fledgling local office in Guernsey. • Orchestrated single manager sales team expansion from solo effort initially to five specialists • Personally raised over USD1bn into hedge funds during time at the firm. • Perfect hit rate in the GFC with all nine funds (run by six managers) selected for representation by Dexion, delivering positive returns in the core crisis period of Jul-07 through Feb-09. Show less



SG Securities

• France
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Emerging Market Sales, London

  • Sep 1996 - Mar 2000

  Held the following roles: Head of Emerging Market Sales into UK and Europe Co-Head of Asian Equity Sales into UK and Europe Senior Asian Equity Sales Executive focused on UK institutions Held the following roles: Head of Emerging Market Sales into UK and Europe Co-Head of Asian Equity Sales into UK and Europe Senior Asian Equity Sales Executive focused on UK institutions



Crosby Securities

• Pakistan
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Director, Head of Sales, London

  • Feb 1994 - Aug 1996

  Subsequently acquired by SG Securities Subsequently acquired by SG Securities



Cazenove

• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Institutional Equity Sales

  • Oct 1986 - Jan 1994

  Institutional Equity Research and Sales Executive Institutional Equity Research and Sales Executive