Gresham House plc

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.

Sir Laurie has nearly 40 years’ experience in corporate finance advisory, latterly specialising in the financial institutions sector, and is currently a Senior Advisor to Evercore Europe investment banking and was previously Chairman of Lexicon Partners.

Prior to Lexicon Partners, Sir Laurie was a Partner in the Phoenix Partnership, becoming a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette after it acquired Phoenix in 1997. He spent the first 18 years of his career at Samuel Montagu, now part of HSBC Investment Bank, where his final responsibility was as Deputy Head of UK Corporate Finance.

This included a posting in Singapore, where he was Area Manager responsible for operations in southeast Asia. He is currently Chairman of Pantheon International plc and J.P. Morgan Multi-Asset Trust plc. He is a non-executive Director of Aggregated Micropower Holdings plc and Fidelity Japan Trust plc. In the not-for-profit sector, he is Chairman of Historic England and a Trustee of The English Heritage Trust, a Trustee of The Allchurches Trust and Chairman of The Windsor Leadership Trust.

Tony has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gresham House since December 2014. He chairs the Investment Committees of Gresham House 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 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).

Rupert has been the Managing Director of Gresham House Asset Management Ltd since September 2015. He is a member of the Group Management and Investment Committees.

Rupert has a proven track record of delivering significant value to shareholders and has over 32 years’ experience in asset management, private banking and wealth management, focusing on product innovation, investment management, business development, banking and wealth structuring.

Before joining Gresham House, Rupert was CEO and CIO of Schroders (UK) Private Bank for 11 years, and spent 17 years at Rothschild, where latterly he was Head of Private Clients for Rothschild Asset Management.

Kevin is the Chief Financial Officer for Gresham House plc and has over 19 years of finance and operational experience in private equity. Kevin joined Gresham House from Oaktree Capital Management where he was a senior vice president responsible for finance and operations in the European Principal team covering private equity and debt opportunity funds. Prior to joining Oaktree, Kevin was Director – Group Reporting and Valuations at 3i Group plc.

Kevin qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He also holds a BCom from the University of Edinburgh.

Andy is responsible for operational and technology initiatives across Gresham House. Andy has a strong technology, operations and business background, having previously worked for LDC and the wholesale division of Lloyds Banking Group, where he led numerous operational improvement and technology programmes.

Throughout his career Andy has advised companies on identifying value creation opportunities to support growth that can be driven through operational improvement and technology, as well as supporting complex post-merger integrations. Andy holds an MBA from the University of Warwick.

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.