Our Capital Markets Transactions trainer is an investment specialist with over 30 years’ experience in the institutional fund management and investment banking sectors. His experience spans both public and private equity.
In 2010 he founded Frontier-Invest Ltd. Frontier-Invest provides consulting and transaction advisory services to companies, particularly in relation to raising and structuring PE and VC capital in international markets.
He started his investment career with Ivory & Sime, where he managed equity portfolios for institutional clients. He subsequently joined Cazenove Fund Management where he ran Global Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific funds. In 2007 he was recruited to a specialist firm that ultimately became UBA Capital, the Investment Banking subsidiary of one of Africa’s largest banks, where he acted as Global Head of Research.
The trainer has a deep understanding not only of just company analysis and investment structuring, but portfolio construction and management through the investment cycle. Having worked through numerous business and economic cycles, and a variety of developed and emerging market crises, he has learnt invaluable investment lessons in difficult environments as well as in good times.
He has a Master’s degree from Edinburgh University and accountancy and economics certificates from the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He is fluent in several languages and has provided training courses in both English and French to clients across Europe, Africa and Asia.