Sarah was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of the Company following the conclusion of the Company’s 2022 AGM. Sarah is a qualified chartered accountant and brings to the Board over 30 years’ experience in financial services including audit, corporate finance, investment banking and asset management.

During her executive career, she was a top-rated equity research analyst covering the UK general financial services sector and also founded and ran a hedge fund investment management business. Sarah is Non-Executive Director at CMC Markets plc, Marex Group plc and XPS Pensions Group plc.

Leigh joined Gresham House Ireland as Head of Compliance in August 2022.

Prior to joining Gresham House Ireland he was Head of Compliance for Kestrel Capital Limited. He has also held the role of Head of Compliance, Chief Risk Officer and MLRO for both Sanford C. Bernstein Ireland Limited and New England Asset Management Limited in Ireland. He spent 4 years in Dubai where he worked with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Head of Compliance for the Middle East and North Africa. Prior to this, he had been Compliance Director with Merrill Lynch in Dublin.

Leigh obtained a BComm from University College Dublin and an MSc in Finance from the University of Strathclyde. He is also a member of the Compliance Institute in Ireland.

Anastasia joined Gresham House in August 2022 as a Compliance Manager working alongside the Head of Compliance, and his team. Anastasia has previously worked at the London headquarters of Cheyne Capital Management in a similar compliance generalist role as a Strategic Partner to the firm advising predominantly on Private and Public equity assets, Real Assets as well as their Credit business.

Anastasia achieved a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Manchester and, in 2019, completed her Level 6 Diploma in Risk and Compliance Management from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

David Hunter qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC before joining 3i, the FT100 listed private equity group where he became Managing Director of Investment Management responsible for the entire UK portfolio of assets.

David is Chairman of UCLB which, with commercial funding, manages all technology transfer and resulting investments/licenses for University College London. David’s other interests include Treasurer at Motability, the charity that oversees the disabled car scheme and has a £1bn plus endowment and Chair of the Audit Committee at Big Society Capital.

Past roles have included Chair of the Audit Committee of one of the Baronsmead family of listed venture capital trust ,membership of the Bridges Ventures Investment Committee, Chair of the Strategic Finance Committee at Age UK and Chair of the Development Committee at PA Housing.

30 years VC & banking experience. Founded Spark in 1995. Former Investment Committee member at Brandt’s, Credit Suisse, Bank of Montreal and Mitsubishi Finance London. Start-up investor/director of lastminute.com, mergermarket.com, Chairman of Kobalt Music, notonthehighstreet.com, ARC, MAID, amongst others.

David Gardner has been CIO, Forestry and a member of the Forestry Investment Committee at Gresham House since May 2020.

He joined from Global Forest Partners LP, a US based timber management and investment company, where he worked from 2009 to 2019. David was responsible for developing the company’s international growth as well as supporting the management of the existing forestry investments. While at Global Forest Partners, David served as an Investment Director as well as being a partner and serving on the Investment Committee. Prior to that, he was President of Asia Pacific (Forest Industry) at the international management consulting firm Poyry, based in Singapore.

David has over 30 years of experience in the global forest industry, with the last ten years focused on international institutional investment and asset management in forestry.

David holds a Bachelor of Science, a Master’s degree in Forestry and is an MBA graduate from Cranfield University.

Juanita joined the Strategic Equity team in August 2022 and is responsible for supporting on all Company Secretarial matters relating to the four Mobeus VCTs.

Juanita has previously held Company Secretarial roles at Tate & Lyle PLC and Link Group (Company Matters).

Juanita is a Graduate member of the Chartered Governance Institute and holds an MSc in Corporate Governance from London South Bank University.

Cathy is a legal adviser who has specialised in the investment company sector for over 20 years. Cathy is currently a Partner at CMS, a top global law firm. Prior to this, she worked in the asset management practice of another top global law firm for almost 20 years, 8 of which as a Partner.

Cathy’s work has encompassed investment fund structuring and fundraising for domestic and international investment funds. Cathy is also a member of the Law Society Company Law Committee and sits on the Regulatory and Governance Committees of LPeC, the industry association for listed private capital funds.

Rachel joined the Company as a Non-Executive Director in March 2018 and is Gresham House plc’s Consumer Champion. She spent her executive career in equity research and sales and was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment banking division. Since then she has worked as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of a number of companies.

She is currently a Non-Executive Director of Witan Investment Trust plc, The Mercantile Investment Trust plc and Cushon Group Limited. She was previously Chair of the Association of Investment Companies.

Abdul joined Gresham House in May 2023.

Abdul previously worked at GAM Investments within their compliance team, specialising in employee compliance, transaction monitoring and surveillance and cost analysis.

Abdul holds a BSc (Hons) in Banking and International Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly CASS), and in 2023 was awarded the CFA UK Level 4 Investment Management Certificate.

Tara is a Commercial Property Asset Manager for the Real Estate team in Ireland and has over 16 years of property management experience.

Tara joined Gresham House from CBRE where she was a Director responsible for leading a team to deliver property management services for the UK’s leading commercial funds. Prior to joining CBRE, Tara was Director at Group Workman LLP.

Tara qualified as a Chartered Member of The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) and of The Royal Institution of Chartered  Surveyors (RICS) in 2014.

She also holds a 1st Class Honors Bachelor’s degree in Property Studies.

Gareth joined the Company as a Non-Executive Director in October 2019, having previously served in the Company’s Advisory Group. He is Chair of the Sustainability Committee.

Gareth is Chairman of M&C Saatchi and PodPoint plc. He was previously Chair of William Hill plc, Ferguson plc and DS Smith plc. Gareth’s executive career was spent at Imperial Brands, serving for 38 years. He became CEO in early 1996, leading the de-merger from Hanson plc. During his tenure as CEO, Imperial grew to be one of the world’s largest global consumer products businesses, posting huge shareholder returns.

On retirement in mid-2010, Harvard Business Review cited him as one of the World’s Top 50 CEOs in terms of value creation.

Extensive business experience, including experience in debt finance and capital markets.

Robert has held roles at J.P. Morgan, HSBC Markets Limited and HSBC Investment Bank in London working initially as Managing Director in Global Capital Markets and subsequently as Vice Chairman for Client Development. Robert was also Chairman, Debt Finance & Advisory at HSBC Bank plc. As Director and Chair of the Overseas Promotion Committee of TheCityUK Robert served as financial services sector adviser to the UK Minister for Trade & Investment.

He was Chairman of the International Primary Market Association and Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Regulatory Policy Committee of the International Capital Market Association.

Educated at Sherborne School and St. John’s College, Cambridge University where he gained a MA (Hons) in History.

Pádraig joined Gresham House in January 2023 and is a Associate Director in our Compliance team.

Pádraig has experience across financial services, and has led engagements with the Risk Advisory practices of KPMG, EY and PwC, including a secondment as Head of Line 1 Risk.

Pádraig has over 15 years of regulatory compliance and operational risk experience and holds a BComm (Hons), Professional Diploma in Compliance, and is a Chartered Accountant.

Peter is Managing Director of Gresham House’s Sustainable Infrastructure division and Fund Manager for our British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) strategy. He is also a member of the Gresham House Sustainability Executive Committee and the Gresham House Asset Management Board.

Prior to Gresham House, Peter led the investment and exit of the Sustainable Infrastructure-focused Environmental Capital Fund (ECF) for SEP, one of Europe’s most successful VC firms.

With over 22 years of public and private equity investment, development and fund management experience, including two top-decile infrastructure fund exits, he has invested into and exited over 200 infrastructure and technology companies across all sectors with an equity value of over £1.7bn and capital value of c.£5.5bn.

Peter has had board member roles on over 90 investee companies and is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Peter is also an active investor in early-stage sustainability companies.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with honours and two further Bachelor degrees in Finance (BFin) and Commerce (BCom), all from the University of Adelaide, and is a proud graduate of CISL’s Business Sustainability Management programme.

Scott is the co-author of the Numis Smaller Companies Index which he undertakes as part of his research role at London Business School.

Scott has a long history in research having worked as an academic economist and an investment banking analyst since graduating from Bristol University in 1990. He started his research career at the Institute of Economics & Statistics, University of Oxford where he conducted research into the performance of quoted and unquoted companies, he then joined the Institute for Fiscal Studies where he focused on corporate taxation. After a number of years of working in academic research, Scott moved into the investment banking industry. Having started as an Equity Strategist at UBS, he held a number of senior roles within research at various financial institutions including: ABN Amro, Merrill Lynch and Espirito Santo Investment Bank.

Ian joined Gresham House Ireland (formerly Appian Asset Management) in June 2009 after spending over five years at Bear Stearns. Ian worked within Bear’s Fixed Income/Equity operational departments for two years followed by three years in the Legal & Compliance Department where he worked as an AMLO Officer & Compliance Officer. In June 2009, Ian worked within the Account Opening/Compliance departments before managing the operations department. Ian has built up a strong relationship with our brokers and clients over the past nine years. Ian brings a wealth of experience into our client relationship team having worked in the industry for nearly 14 years. Ian is a Qualified Financial Advisor.

Joe joined Gresham House in September 2022 and is an Investment Director in the Forestry team.

His 30-year career spans forestry, manufacturing, energy and technology. With some short spells in the Public Sector, he has spent most of his career in StartUp and Scaling businesses. Having sold a bioenergy business to a multi-disciplinary energy company in 2014 he set up and ran its solar and biomass division. In 2016, he was appointed Chief Commercial Officer for the Group, with responsibility for EBITDA growth across the energy trading, power marketing, asset management and energy solutions businesses as well as developing a pipeline of pre-qualified development opportunities in offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, biomass and energy storage.

Joe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Science from University College Dublin and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University College Cork. He recently completed a Diploma in Company Direction as part of the IoD Chartered Directors’ Programme.

He is a Climate Reality Leader with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project and a Member of the Jury of the European Innovation in Politics Institute. He is an active investor in early-stage Technology companies, particularly in the eMobility, EdTech and FinTech sectors.

He is on the Board of Directors of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and also sits on its Audit & Risk Committee.

Sarah joined Gresham House in September 2022 as a Finance Assistant in the Finance, Real Assets department.

Prior to joining Gresham House, Sarah worked in the charity sector, working as a Finance Manager for multiple companies, managing all aspects of financial reports and reporting to the Directors and Trustees. Prior to this Sarah worked in retail and gained experience within the companies finance department, managing international expenditure.

Sarah has four years experience in the finance sector and has achieved AAT levels 2,3 & 4. Sarah is currently studying for her ACCA.

Anthony was appointed as a Director in December 2014. He has spent over 50 years working in the City of London and was Chairman of the Association of Investment Companies from 2001 to 2003.

He is a Director of Hansa Capital Partners LLP and was until recently Chairman of BMO Global Smaller Companies plc and Finsbury Growth & Income Trust plc.

Anthony was a Director of Brit Insurance Holdings plc from 1999 to 2008 and represented the company on the Council of Lloyd’s of London from 2006 to 2008. Prior to this, he was Managing Director of Finsbury Asset Management Limited from 1988 to 1998.

Jerome is a Chartered Surveyor (FRICS) with over 30 years experience in providing specialist property management & service charge services. He previously held senior property management positions with CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, Savills and Mason Owen & Lyons. Jerome is a previous chair of the IPFMA and of the PM & FM professional Group of the SCSI. Jerome was the lead author of the SCSI Commercial Service Charge Practice Statement and of the SCSI Commercial Service Charge Handover Procedures Guidance Note.

Graham is an experienced forestry professional, responsible for all operational aspects of the Gresham House forestry funds. After a short period of practical experience in the UK, Sweden and New Zealand, he joined UA Forestry Ltd (a division of United Auctions Group) as a forest manager, progressing to become their managing director in 1997.

In 2001, he left UA to found his own forestry management company, Aspen Forestry Ltd, which specialised in providing forest management services across Scotland. Following the successful sale of Aspen, Graham joined Gresham House in 2007. His specialism is in developing, negotiating and managing non-forestry ‘higher and better use’ investments on behalf of client funds, particularly renewable energy developments, telecom rentals, power line access and compensation and residential developments.

Duncan is a Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director with over 20 years’ public and private commercial experience. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and qualified with PwC in London. Duncan was part of the senior management team that turned Corona Energy from a gas trading business into the largest independent supplier of gas to UK businesses and has also served as CFO of an M&A team bidding for thermal power stations. Duncan is also a non-executive director and the Chair of the Audit Committee of Atrato Onsite Energy plc.

Recently he spent several years as Finance Director of Belltown Power, a renewable energy site operator (hydro, solar and wind) holding a portfolio of 215 MW. He is a Trustee of Cambodian Children’s Fund UK.

Rob joined Gresham House in November 2015. He is a member of the Forestry Investment Committee.

Rob joined the group from Aitchesse Ltd where he was a Company Director for two years and Head of Acquisitions for three years. Prior to joining Aitchesse Ltd, Rob spent five years at CNBC Europe as a technical analyst covering financial news. Following this, he was managing his own consultancy business specialising in carbon management and commercial forestry for two years. Rob has 11 years of investment experience in the commercial forestry sector, investing in the UK and globally.

He holds a Master’s degree in environmental economics from Glasgow University and a Bachelor of Art in engineering from Southampton Solent University.

James is an Investment Manager at Gresham House. James moved to the New Energy team in 2019 after joining Gresham House in 2018 as part of Gresham House Ventures, having previously been at Livingbridge since 2016.

James’ current role covers a broad range of work across fund management and new investments, primarily focused on energy storage and renewables. Amongst other things he is responsible for modelling for the energy storage fund, both at fund level and for new investments drawing on his experience and understanding of BESS markets. Prior to joining the New Energy team, he worked as an Analyst covering mostly early-stage companies in the Venture Capital and Equity Fund vehicles as part of Gresham House Ventures. This role provided experience with investment decisions across a variety of markets as well as exposure to growth companies and management of quoted investment vehicles.

His career started in TMT audit at EY where he spent three years and qualified as a chartered accountant.

James holds a first-class Master’s degree in Mathematics from Durham University.

Enda joined Gresham House Ireland (formerly Appian Asset Management) in 2019 and is Director of Operations. He is a graduate of the University of Limerick and trained as a Chartered Accountant. He has gained over 20 year’s experience in financial services initially with NCB Stockbrokers and more recently with the Merrion Capital Group where he was Chief Financial Officer for nine years. He is a Registered Stockbroker, Qualified Financial Advisor and is also a member of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland holding a Professional Diploma in Compliance.

Bruce was appointed Chairman of the world’s leading insurance market, Lloyd’s of London, in June 2017 and is Vice Chairman of Banco Santander SA and Chairman of Cuvva Ltd, an app-based motor insurance provider. He was Non-Executive Chairman of Moneysupermarket.com Group plc from 2014-2019 and a Non-Executive Director of JLT Group plc from 2016 to 2017, prior to which he was Non-Executive Chairman of Aon UK Ltd from 2012 to 2015, Senior Independent Director of Catlin Group Ltd from 2010 to 2014 and Chief Executive for Marsh UK and Europe from 2003 to 2006.

He was also a Senior Independent Director of Close Brothers Group plc from 2006 to 2014. He previously worked at JP Morgan for 18 years in a number of senior roles and was Managing Partner of 3i Group plc’s Quoted Private Equity Division from 2007 to 2009. He is a past President of the Chartered Management Institute.

Rod is a former investment manager and investment company specialist with over 30 years investment experience including equity long only and hedge fund management. Since 2006, he has developed a portfolio of non-executive and consultancy roles. Rod’s experience includes managing JP Morgan Fleming’s investment company business and he is a former director of the Association of Investment Companies.

Fund Manager; responsible for management of in-forest operations and fund reporting. Post qualification, he worked as a forest manager on the full spectrum of forest activities, with a particular emphasis on adding value through bare land planting. In 2004, he moved to the Forestry Commission where he held various responsibilities including regulatory compliance role over the industry’s private sector. Latterly he was project manager of an IT project, and represented the Forestry Commission on the SEARS (Scotland’s Environmental & Rural Services) programme of organisational change. In 2012 he joined Gresham House Forestry and is one of the teams qualified chartered foresters.

Tom Joined Gresham House in April 2022 as a Site Condition Monitoring Engineer and is now a Data Scientist in the New Energy division.

Before joining Gresham House, Tom completed an MPhil in Physics at the University of Bath with the thesis title “Towards Brillouin Enabled Photonic Switching and Quantum Memories”. During this time, he investigated the viability of two photonic devices for use in linear optic quantum computing platforms both theoretically and experimentally and developed a unique set of skills allowing for a wide variety of applications.

Prior to his time in Bath, Tom studied for a BSc in Physics at Aberystwyth University and an MSc in Diamond Science and Technology at the University of Warwick, during which time he completed research placements at Strathclyde University and the University of Oxford.

Simon joined the Company as a Non-Executive Director in December 2017 and was appointed Chairman of the Remuneration Committee in October 2018. Simon has over 26 years’ experience in the City and was, until 2022, CEO of Bonhill Group plc, an AIM-listed digital media and events business.

He was previously, Chief Executive of Liberum, the investment bank that he co-founded in 2007 and a Director of the Little Forest Folk group of outdoor children’s nurseries. Prior to Liberum, Simon was Head of Sales for small companies at Collins Stewart plc and was also a Director at Beeson Gregory Limited.

A former infantry officer he is Chairman of the Gloucestershire Regiment Museum Trust.

Geoff joined Gresham House in August 2019, after spending 4 years at Nikko Asset Management. Prior to that he held compliance roles at Henderson Global Investors, Royal London and Barclays Wealth. He began his career in personal banking at HSBC.

Samee has been the Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary of Gresham House plc effectively since April 2019. Samee is responsible for all Gresham House Group legal matters. He has over 25 years of legal, commercial and financial experience, covering private and public equity, M&A and corporate finance. Samee joined Gresham House from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where he built and led ADIA’s Private Equity legal and compliance function.

Prior to ADIA, Samee worked at SVG Capital plc alongside Tony Dalwood, where he was heavily involved in the structuring and development of private and public equity solutions and was also a member of the firm’s fund management risk committee. Samee holds a first-class degree in Law and qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May in London.

Katie joined Gresham House in August 2023.

Prior to joining Gresham House, Katie completed a Corporate Finance Graduate Programme with the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which involved three eight-month rotations in Irelands Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), NewERA and the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA).

Katie holds a MEconSc in International Finance and completed a six-month study abroad at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Dominik joined Gresham House in 2022 and is responsible for housing regulatory and performance reporting for all the Registered Providers within the division. He has over 16 years of experience working in the real estate, public and charity sector.

Prior to joining Gresham Housing, Dominik was part of the founding team at Sage Housing – Blackstone portfolio company and a major for-profit housing provider in England where he was responsible for leading their Corporate Compliance function and managing operational reporting for the business. Before that, Dominik worked for one of the largest London’s housing associations – One Housing Group where he was responsible for overseeing performance of their retirement and supported housing portfolio.

Dominik is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Annie is a Non-Executive Director for Strategic Equity Capital plc as of 14 February 2022.

Annie was recently Group People and Culture Officer at Unicredit, a leading retail corporate and investment banking organisation.  She started her career in 1980 at British Petroleum in Branding and Communications. This was followed by reputational risk, branding and corporate communications roles from 1984-1992, including Head of the London Stock Exchange Press Office; press officer in the Prime Minister’s Press Office and the Ministry of Defence.

In 1999 she moved to Goldman Sachs in London and in 2004 to New York to work for the then Chair and CEO, creating the first Chairman’s Forum, a culture enhancing leadership and reputational judgment programme for Partners and Managing Directors.

In 2006 Annie joined GAM Investments, the investment management firm, as Global Head of Branding and Employee Engagement before creating her own consulting business Alpha Performance Consultants.

Annie became Global Head of Client Marketing at UBS Investment Bank in 2011, taking on the additional role of Global Head of Culture in 2015 until moving to Unicredit in 2021.

Stephen joined Gresham House in May 2018 following the acquisition of FIM Services Ltd, where he had served as Chief Financial Officer and Compliance Officer since 2013. Prior to this, Stephen worked at E.ON, where he held a variety of financial and commercial roles from 2000 onwards, ranging from leading large finance teams, developing power station projects, M&A transactions, and working with HM Government delivering low carbon solutions. His experience includes leading on the commercial aspects of the acquisition of the Staffordshire Street Lighting project and the sale of Horizon Nuclear Power to Hitachi.

Stephen began his career at PwC in 1996 and trained as a Chartered Accountant with an emphasis on corporate tax issues. He has 24 years of industry experience and is a law graduate and Barrister, having been called to the Bar in 1996.

With over 20 years in private equity, Hazel is an experienced investor and director, and has helped build numerous quality boards. Hazel qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen before spending a few years in corporate finance with British Linen Bank advising public and private companies.

She joined 3i in 1993 and in 2000 opened a London private equity office for Bowman Capital, a $6bn hedge fund with $750m for private equity. She invested throughout Europe before gaining operational experience by heading up the UK for Cross Atlantic Capital Partners. Since 2000, Hazel has been sitting on boards for private equity and independently and since 2006, she has been formally helping companies build quality boards and management teams.

Hazel joined Gresham House in March 2019. She continues to help create and maintain quality teams and is a Non-Executive Director at Parsley Box, a food delivery firm.

Ciarán joined Gresham House in March 2021.

He began his forestry career as a timber harvesting manager in Ireland and over the past nine years has worked in a variety of roles in commercial forest management and regulation. He has experience in both the public and private sectors in the UK and Ireland working within the forestry regulatory environment and in large scale commercial forest management, resource planning and timber harvesting.

Ciarán holds a first-class degree in forestry from University College Dublin.

Tony has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gresham House plc since December 2014. He chairs the Investment Committees of Gresham House plc and Strategic Equity Capital plc and is a Non-Executive Director for Gresham House Asset Management Ireland Limited.

Tony led the management buy-in and established a new management team that transformed the firm from an investment trust into the listed specialist asset manager it is today.

Tony has a long track record of investing and advising numerous public and private equity businesses. From 2002 to 2011, he established and grew SVG Investment Managers before being asked to lead SVG Advisors (formerly Schroder Ventures, London) as CEO. He started his career at Phillips & Drew Fund Management (later UBS Global Asset Management), one of the UK’s most prominent value investment firms with £60bn in assets under management at its peak and where he was a member of the Investment Committee. He was also previously Chair of the LPFA Investment Panel and Non-executive Board member.

Tony has over 25 years of investment experience and holds an MA in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge (where he was also a junior rugby international and Blue).

James joined Gresham House in May 2018, following the acquisition of FIM Services Ltd.

James is Fund Manager of Gresham House Solar Distribution LLP. James takes an active role in the day-to-day management of the fund including reporting, asset management, capital rising, acquisition of new assets and conducting valuations. Prior to joining Gresham House, he worked at J.P. Morgan, RWE Supply and Trading and latterly at Computershare Investor Services as an Equity Dealer, managing a range of global share plans and option schemes on behalf of corporate clients.

James has over ten years of experience in financial services and holds a BA (Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Plymouth. He has also obtained the Investment Management Certificate and is enrolled as a Level II candidate in the CFA program.

Wayne is an Investment Director in our New Energy division and has 29 years of technical, commercial, stakeholder and general management experience in the energy sector.

Before joining Gresham House, Wayne served as COO at FIM Services Ltd, and prior to that Wayne was an Onshore Wind Development and Construction Director for RWE Innogy.

He has overseen the construction of 17 wind farms (~400MW) and the sale of 12 wind farms (~200MW) over the past 12 years. He has also represented the industry on aviation matters as a director and vice chair of the Aviation Investment Fund Company Ltd.

Wayne is a Chartered Engineer and has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Sheffield. Wayne is also a registered adviser with the Financial Conduct Authority.

Richard is a Chartered Surveyor whose experience covers all property issues. His expertise includes: complex documentation and due diligence matters, developing and implementing investment schemes – particularly those based on tax-efficient structures – and managing a wide range of investor contacts established through FIM’s investment business. Richard is a registered adviser with the Financial Conduct Authority.

Olly Hughes has been Managing Director and an Investment Committee member of our Forestry division since January 2019. He is responsible for managing the growth and development of Gresham House’s forestry activities including acquisitions, fund and private client management and forestry asset management.

Prior to joining Gresham House, Olly was a Partner and Head of Infrastructure at Oxford Capital for six years where he built and managed a portfolio of over £300mn of solar and wind renewable energy assets. He started his career at ING Barings in 1995 focusing on asset backed structuring and since then has focused his career on real asset investment management.

Olly has over 26 years of investment experience and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Biological Science. He also obtained the Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Society in the UK.

Maya joined Gresham House in September 2019, having spent 4 years at Octopus Investments, investing in real estate-backed healthcare companies and entrepreneurs.

Prior to that she worked at KPMG for 7 years in audit and corporate finance.

She has a first class degree in Modern History from Oxford and is a Chartered Accountant.

Matt is a chartered surveyor with over 13 years’ experience in investment management. He is responsible for the asset management of Gresham House’s forestry portfolio and for family office and high net worth individuals’ forestry and renewable portfolios worth over £571m. Matt is also responsible for the valuation and acquisition of investment opportunities.

Prior to Gresham House and FIM, Matt worked for Smiths Gore as a rural estate manager, advising a number of private clients on the management of their diverse property portfolios. Before this, he worked for Jones Lang LaSalle in their financial services team advising on the formation of joint venture property development companies. Matt holds the Certificate in Investments and is a registered adviser with the Financial Conduct Authority.

Ken Lever is Chairman of Biffa plc and RPS Group plc and Non-Executive Director of Blue Prism plc and Vertu Motors plc. Ken was previously Chief Executive of Xchanging plc and during his career has held listed company executive board positions with Tomkins plc, Albright and Wilson plc, Alfred McAlpine plc and private equity owned Numonyx BV.

In his early career Ken qualified as a Chartered Accountant and became a partner in Arthur Andersen. Until 2014 Ken was a member of the UK Accounting Standards Board. He graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Management Sciences.

Claire joined Gresham House in August 2023 as Head of Business Development in the UK and Irish Institutional market.

Prior to Gresham House, Claire worked at Schroders for ten years and held positions as Head of Sustainability UK and Co-Head of the UK Institutional Business.

Claire started her career at M&G Investments, before moving to Baring Asset Management where she spent 11 years with the last six years in a UK Institutional Business Development role.

Claire is IMC qualified and has obtained the CFA ESG certificate.

Joseph joined Gresham House in September 2023 as a Finance Assistant in our Strategic Equity team.

Prior to joining Gresham house, Joseph has had client-facing experience in Venture Capital at Kin Capital.

Joseph has a BA in Economics from De Montfort University and has completed the IMC certification.

Alan has been a private equity investor for 30 years, in roles including Senior Partner and Global Head of Healthcare at the private equity firm 3i Group plc. He became CEO of Hermes GPE in 2010 before leaving to co-found GHO in 2014. Alan has invested in a number of high-growth healthcare companies including Quintiles and Phibro Animal Health, and currently serves on the boards of drug development specialist Quotient Sciences, pharmaceutical ingredient specialist Alcaliber, and intensive care specialist Linimed Gruppe.

Alan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law, an MSc in Enterprise and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD. He has served as Chairman of the BVCA and its Responsible Investment Advisory Board.

John is a highly-experienced international executive in the energy sector and an investor and advisor in renewable energy and digital technology. In his early career, John worked in civil nuclear power generation and held a number of senior roles at BP, focusing on the North Sea and Azerbaijan. Latterly at BP, he held a range of corporate-level executive roles, including Group Chief Information Officer.

He was also responsible for group-wide physical and cyber security and led the development of corporate digital transformation investment activity. John is currently a senior advisor to global blue-chip consultants specialising in energy and digitisation, a partner with donedeal (Monaco) – a boutique financial advisory and M&A house – and is on the board of cyber security firm Global Integrity. John also serves on the Enterprise Committee of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

David is a financial journalist and commentator for several leading publications, including The Financial Times, Citywire and MoneyWeek. He is Executive Director of leading alternative finance news and events service altfi.com, which covers major trends in marketplace lending, crowdfunding and working capital provision for SMEs. David is the author of a number of books, including a bestseller on ETFs and their use within portfolios in Europe for the FT.

David was a Director at The Rocket Science Group and before that a Senior Producer in business and science for BBC TV. He is also a Non-Executive Director on the SQN Secured Income Investment Trust and the Aurora Investment Trust.

Izzy leads on M&A in the UK and internationally. He joined Gresham House in May 2018 following the acquisition of FIM Services Ltd.

Prior to joining Gresham House, Izzy worked for six years in commercial real estate advisory, building out investment and agency team platforms at Cushman & Wakefield (and formerly DTZ), Knight Frank, and Strutt and Parker. Prior to this he worked as an Investment Analyst at European equity hedge fund Libra Equity.

Izzy is the youngest visiting professor at the prestigious IEB University in Madrid, teaching the CFA curriculum for five years. He has a combined 14 years’ of experience, is a CFA charterholder, and has an MSc in Finance from the University of Exeter. He is also fluent in Spanish and Dutch.

Matthew was a founding partner of LGT Vestra in 2007, where he ran the ventures team, focusing on renewables, unlisted commercial property and private equity investments. Prior to that, he ran the financial planning department at PwC in London.

More recently, Matthew founded CH1 Investment Partners LLP, which provides bespoke investment solutions to high net worth, professional and sophisticated investors. He is also a director of several other businesses, including Longhedge Renewables, Lake District Biogas Limited and Osprey Solar.

Beata joined Gresham House in 2019 and is a Finance Analyst. Prior to this, Beata worked in the finance department of a multi-site training company based near Milton Keynes. She is currently studying towards the AAT Professional Diploma in Accounting.