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.

Ana joined Gresham House in September 2022 and is responsible for implementing the EPCM structure and delivering the New Energy team’s project pipeline.

Ana is a multi-skilled professional with 12 years of experience delivering innovative, award-winning renewable energy projects in the UK.

Previously, Ana helped to establish quality management, project delivery, and commercial project functions at GRIDSERVE Sustainable Energy. She also successfully delivered the UK’s first Electric Forecourt and subsidy-free solar and battery storage hybrid projects with bi-facial panels and tracking technology. Before joining GRIDSERVE, Ana was part of the BELECTRIC projects team building utility-scale solar farms.

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.

Jamie joined Gresham House in March 2023 as HR Manager.

She will be contributing to the development and review of HR policies, procedures and best practice in a generalist HR capacity. She is a trusted advisor on a broad range of HR issues covering the full employee life cycle.

Her most recent role was at OakNorth bank, providing specialist advice on the people regulatory aspects of HR (focusing on SMCR).

Prior to this, Jamie worked for 14 years at Daiwa Capital Markets, a fast-paced Japanese investment bank as an Associate Director. In this role she was responsible for providing full generalist HR support and leading on HR project work, including the implementation of a performance management system.

She holds a CIPD post graduate qualification in Management and Human Resources.

Kathryn joined Gresham House Ireland in March 2022 to spearhead our offering for private clients. She has worked as an investment manager with private clients for over 15 years, aligning their investment strategies with their personal goals, across various wealth structures. She has over 20 years’ experience in the wealth management sector, having advised individuals and their families, not-for-profits, corporates and pension clients in this time.

Kathryn graduated with a degree in Corporate Law and interned at MetLife Bank in New York prior to commencing her career at a large wealth management business in Dublin. She is a Chartered Member of the Securities & Investment Institute in London and holds the CFP® designation. She also holds a first-class MSc in Financial Services, and has served as a Professional Pension Trustee Practitioner. Demonstrating her commitment to sustainable investing, Kathryn recently completed the ESG Certificate via the CFA.

Ben is Head of Institutional Business, and joined Gresham House in May 2024.

Prior to joining the firm Ben was the EMEA Commercial Officer at Cambridge Associates, where he was responsible for Business Development & Marketing focussing on Institutional investors, Endowment & Foundations and Family Offices. Before, joining Cambridge Associates, Ben spent 18 years at Mercer Investments in several leadership roles including European Head of Mercer Sentinel and the UK Head of Fiduciary Management. In his previous roles Ben has been responsible for developing propositions across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including spending time as the Head of Mercer’s Middle East business based in Dubai.

Ben holds a MSc in Accounting and Finance from DeMonfort University and a BSc (Econ) in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Buckingham. He is also a qualified Actuary, has passed the Investment Management Certificate and has over 20 years-experience in the financial industry.

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.

Kevin joined the team in Ireland in June 2023.

Kevin has over 14 years of experience in the property industry and was previously Financial Controller at McDermott and O’Farrell Group.

Kevin holds a Business degree from the University of Limerick and completed his ACCA exams in 2012.

Kenneth joined Gresham House Ireland in March 2023.

Prior to Gresham House, Kenneth spent two years with Bank of Ireland in a Welcome and Operations role dealing with commercial and personal customers.

Kenneth graduated from the University of Galway with a Bachelor of Commerce and is studying for his Qualified Financial Advisor exams.

Charlie joined Gresham House in May 2023 to assist the Housing team with all of their reporting.

Charlie has over three years’ of professional experience working for Langham Hall, a Fund Administrator in the Real Estate sector, where he gained valuable experience as the main preparer for all deliverables across seven Real Estate Funds with an AUM of £0.8bn. During his time at Langham Hall, Charlie was promoted to Assistant Fund Accountant and was the main point of contact for all client correspondence and annual audits.

Charlie is currently completing his ACCA exams to become a qualified accountant and holds a BSc. in Economics from the University of Sheffield, graduating with a first-class degree.

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.

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.

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.

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.

William joined Gresham House in January 2022 and is a Associate Director in the Forestry team.

Prior to Gresham House, William worked at Tilhill, advising clients on commercial forestry and woodland investments, new woodland creation, woodland carbon investment, and portfolio modelling for individual and institutional investors.

Before this, he spent five years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, managing low-risk European equity portfolios, including launching and co-managing a sustainable equity fund. He has also worked at KPMG Corporate Finance, focusing on long-term project finance investments. He spent his early career as an infantry officer in the British Army.

William holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, a Master’s degree in Environmental and Forest Management from the University of Aberdeen, and is a CFA Charterholder. He also has a year of postgraduate research experience at Newcastle University, focused on tropical forest carbon cycling, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity relationships.

Graham works with our investment teams and portfolio companies providing the link between people strategy and investment strategy.

A Sport Science Graduate, majoring in psychology, he has 25 years’ experience leading HR & Talent functions and building high performing teams across a broad spectrum of organisations with diverse ownership structures.

These include HR leadership in a successful Private Equity backed SME, building pioneering approaches to Talent Management and Organisational Design, across over 150 transactions from within a leading Mid-Market Private Equity fund and an innovative executive search and advisory firm.

Graham latterly built his own consulting firm solely focussed on supporting investor backed, high growth SME’s with creative Talent Strategy.

Sarah is an experienced, independent non-executive who has served on a variety of boards and committees, after a varied career in the asset and wealth management industry. She is a non-executive board member of Boston-based Arrowstreet Capital Partners and is also a Pension Trustee Director of Genome Research Pensions Trustee Limited and Wellcome Trust Pensions Trustee Limited. She chairs the Cambridge University Endowment Fund Investment Advisory Board and also serves on the board of Quilter Investors Ltd, a subsidiary of Quilter plc.

Sarah retired from her executive role as Head of Risk at Wellcome Trust in 2019 and as Chair of JP MorganGlobal Emerging Markets Income Trust plc on 28 November 2022. Sarah was previously Chief Investment Risk Officer at RBS Asset Management (formerly Coutts).

Rob has over 30 years of financial services experience. Rob joins us from Ahren Innovation Capital, a boutique venture capital fund manager, where he was Chief Financial Officer responsible for finance, operations, compliance, HR and IT. Prior to joining Ahren, Rob was Head of Finance and Fund Administration at Eikoh Research Investment Management, a Japanese equity hedge fund manager. Rob is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Fiona joined the Baronsmead Venture Trust plc Board on 1 September 2021 as a Non-Executive Director and has been appointed as Chair in 2022.

Fiona is the CEO of Barts Charity a health foundation with a £550m financial investment and commercial property portfolio. Barts Charity funds transformational medical research and innovation in healthcare delivery and technology. Over the last five years, Barts has also allocated 25% of its portfolio to private equity and venture funds including early stage venture and life sciences funds.

Fiona brings to Baronsmead a wealth of experience, spanning over 25 years, in investing in and leading growth companies. Her early career was in finance and private equity at Goldman Sachs and Murray Johnson Private Equity, and she then had a successful entrepreneurial career prior to joining Barts Charity in 2016 including five years at Social Finance UK, a leading impact investing and advisory firm. Fiona is Trustee of John Lyons, Chair of Lifting Limits and sits on the Barts Life Sciences Advisory Board. Fiona has an MBA from INSEAD.

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.

Ken is Managing Director, Public Equity, and leads the investment team managing public equity investments. He is lead manager for LF Gresham House UK Micro Cap Fund, LF Gresham House UK Multi Cap Income Fund, Strategic Equity Capital plc and manages AIM listed portfolios on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs. Ken graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. He was an equity research analyst with Commerzbank and then Evolution Securities prior to spending the past 12 years as a Fund Manager at Livingbridge and now Gresham House specialising in smaller companies.

George joined the Public Equity investment team at Gresham House permanently in January 2024 having previously undertaken an internship from May 2023. George works across all three open-ended funds and the investment trust within the Public Equity division, conducting sector-agnostic equity research to generate and execute on new investment ideas and support portfolio management.

Prior to joining Gresham House, George worked for a private European fintech company, providing technology services to UK fund managers investing in emerging markets. He then completed the CFA Level 1 in February 2023.

George graduated from Cambridge University with a History degree and three academic awards in July 2022.

Callum joined Gresham House in January 2024.

Prior to joining Gresham House, Callum worked for Goodbody Stockbrokers as a sell-side equity analyst, initially covering macro research before covering the UK video games and technology sectors.

Callum holds 3 years’ financial services experience and holds a BSc in Financial Mathematics & Economics from National University of Ireland, Galway.

Maddie joined Gresham House in December 2023 as a Sustainable Investment Analyst.

Before joining Gresham House, Maddie worked at Lombard Odier as a Quantitative Analyst within the Sustainable Investment Research team. Her work was focused primarily on physical risk modelling but also included assessing companies against sustainability criteria and most recently researching investable opportunities within nature including carbon credits and nature-based solutions. Prior to this, Maddie worked at Atkins Realis as a geospatial analyst, conducting analysis for environmental impact assessments of engineering projects.

Maddie holds and MSc in Geospatial Science and Remote Sensing and a first-class degree in Environmental Science, both from the University of Southampton.

Dorian joined Gresham House in December 2023 as an Investment Manager within the Forestry Division covering acquisition and asset management of commercial and carbon forestry assets both in the UK and Internationally.

Prior to Gresham House, Dorian spent five years at Sail Ventures, an alternatives investment firm base in the Netherlands, where he was part of the founding team of a global climate fund (&Green) focused on sustainable agriculture and forestry which scaled to over US$ 400 million. As a senior investment specialist in a lean team, Dorian was primarily focused on growing Sail’s portfolio and was responsible for structuring investments with embedded ESG features, catering to both early-stage pre-profit enterprises and more established multibillion dollar listed companies globally. He was also involved in fund management and fundraising activities. During his tenure at Sail, the firm received the Asset Manager of the Year award from Environmental Finance on two occasions.

Dorian is also affiliated with the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, where he advises on financing and scaling investment into Nature Based Solutions (NBS). He has undertaken published research on NBS focused funds and participated in mapping nature and climate risks to the financial system as part of the Nature-Climate Scenarios and Analytics for Financial Decision-Making (INCAF) project for the Bank of England.

Dorian holds a first-class Bachelor of Business Science in Finance and Accounting and Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (Hons) from the University of Cape Town as well as a first-class MSc in Climate Change, Management, and Finance from Imperial College London. He is a CFA Charterholder.

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and gaining an MBA in 1987, Brigid Sutcliffe spent thirty years working in investment banking and as a strategic change management consultant, advising companies across a wide range of sectors. She has been a non-executive director for a variety of organisations in the public, private and third sectors over the past eighteen years, including science and technology research, technical business services, higher education and social housing. Brigid is also a non-executive Director and Audit Chair of Troy Income & Growth Trust plc.

James joined Gresham House in May 2024 as Sustainable Investment Manager.

Before joining Gresham House, James worked at Jupiter Asset Management as an ESG analyst within the ESG Research & Integration team where he supported investment managers in embedding ESG into investment processes. His work primarily focused on, climate risk, biodiversity, human rights, and human capital as well as stewardship activities including engagement with investee companies, proxy voting and ensuring good governance. James supported the implementation of new sustainability related regulation and disclosure in addition to policy writing and report writing.

Prior to this, James worked within PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change team for nearly 3 years on a variety of projects primarily specialising in ESG strategy for large corporates and Private Equity firms as well as corporate security strategy and health & safety. He spent time managing digital transformations and operational excellence productivity improvements for clients globally whilst supporting other areas of the firm on risk assurance and deals.

James holds a BA (Hons) in Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Birmingham, CFA certificate in ESG Investing, Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy and NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety.

Oscar joined as Associate Asset Manager (Commercial), in the New Energy team in March 2024.

Previously he worked as a commercial asset manager with Syzygy consulting, managing a portfolio of 200 rooftop solar assets.

Prior to this, he worked within Chesterton’s New Homes team helping to establish new build developments across the UK.

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.

Jordan joined the New Energy team as a Commerical Asset Manager in September 2024.

Previously Jordan worked for Zenobe Energy as Commercial Asset Manager. His responsibilities included: delivering grid scale battery projects for market entry and commercial go live, testing for ancillary service markets, delivering EV sites for ancillary service participation and managing project delivery for sites in the EU and Australia, as well as developing and implementing commercial templates for project delivery of GRID scale battery sites.

Jordan has also has experience in the onshore and offshore wind industry, through previous analyst positions with RWE, Wood Group and Natural Power consultants covering policy and regulations, as well as asset performance and optimisation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.