The Team

Simon formerly co-founded Fenchurch Advisory Partners, the leading independent UK FIG investment bank.

Previously, he was Director of Strategy and Director of e-Business at Prudential plc, and he began his career at Boston Consulting Group, where he was a partner in the Financial Services Practice.

Simon chairs the University of Bedfordshire and serves as Treasurer of the National Academy for the Mathematical Sciences.

He has a first-class honours degree in Mathematics from Cambridge, and studied Economics as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard.

Mike was at Morgan Stanley in London, in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking team for nine years and latterly spent two years at leading financial institutions M&A specialist firm Fenchurch Advisory Partners.

He started his career at PwC in Banking and Capital Markets, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant (FCA).

Throughout his career, he has focused on fintech and all of its subsectors. He has extensive experience in M&A, equity capital raises, IPOs, valuation and strategic reviews.

He studied Engineering at Oxford University.

Rupert has over 30 years of experience in financial services, working mainly in international capital markets.

He started his career at Linklaters, where he spent eight years advising clients in debt and equity capital markets, moving to UBS Investment Bank, initially as an in-house lawyer supporting UBS’s European Investment Banking business and then in the European ECM team. Following a stint at Deutsche Bank, Rupert spent 11 years as a Managing Director in the European ECM and Corporate Broking team at RBC Capital Markets in London.

He has extensive experience of investment banking transactions across EMEA, including private placements, IPOs, rights issues, convertibles, exchangeables, block trades and eurobonds.

Rupert is an English-qualified lawyer and studied Civil Engineering at Bristol University.

Nick has over 30 years of experience in financial markets. He began his career at Tullett Prebon in 1993 in exchange-traded derivatives, and later worked at Man Group and MF Global as a senior interest rate futures and options broker. He returned to Tullett Prebon in 2010, where he was desk head for exchange-traded interest rate futures and options until 2018.

He then joined SI Capital as Director of Corporate Broking, delivering pre-IPO, primary and secondary fundraisings for companies listed on the London market.

Nick is a Non-Executive Director of Great Southern Copper and was previously a Non-Executive Director of AMTE Power.

He studied Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Chris has over 30 years of strategic, operational and M&A experience across the construction, building materials and infrastructure sectors. His operating career includes Blue Circle Industries and Italcementi.

At HSBC, Barclays Capital and Moelis he led or advised on more than US$20 billion of M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions for clients including Lafarge, Holcim, Heidelberg and Dangote.

He was later CEO of Cementis, the regional group formed in 2021 from LafargeHolcim’s Indian Ocean operations, where he led its integration across the region.

He has also served as Senior Advisor to Sinoma Cement (Beijing) on international M&A and advised the Hong Kong SAR Government on infrastructure investment.

Paul has over 20 years of investment banking experience, having advised on and executed more than 50 M&A and capital markets transactions across financial institutions, technology, real estate and healthcare. His experience includes public and private M&A, cross-border transactions and capital raising.

Prior to joining Shawpoint, he worked at RBC Capital Markets in London, most recently in M&A and Private Capital, and previously at UBS Investment Bank in London and Tokyo.

Paul studied International Relations at Kyoto University.

Dan qualified as a solicitor with Nabarro Nathanson in London. He then became Senior Counsel at the London Stock Exchange and then General Counsel at Tradition, the world’s third-largest interdealer broker.

He then became co-head of Tradition’s EMEA business managed out of London. He sat on multiple advisory boards and committees and within Tradition he was responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives.

Roger-Marc has over 20 years’ experience in operating and corporate development roles across Financial Services, Data and Technology firms.

He is a former Managing Director and Member of the Operating Committee of DWS (Deutsche Bank), former Chief of Staff of Solactive and Head of Client Strategy at Barclays Capital.

He is a mentor at ABN AMRO’s Future of Finance Techstars Accelerator.

A fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Roger-Marc has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and is an Ingénieur Commercial from the Solvay School at the University of Brussels.

Max is an Analyst at Shawpoint. He was previously at Heritage Holdings, the Ferragamo family office, where he joined its Portfolio Management team at inception as the sole analyst, working directly under the department head to help build and automate its core functions.

He studied Economics at the University of Warwick, including a year in industry at Quaero Capital, and graduated in 2025 with a first-class average in his last year.

Mark enjoyed a 20-year career at the Jardine Matheson group with a track record in senior leadership roles for international retail and engineering businesses. For three years Mark was CEO of Dairy Farm International’s Singaporean and Cambodian food retail business. He then spent eight years as CEO and CFO of the Jardine Motors Group in the UK and prior to that held senior financial positions in Jardine’s heavy equipment & coal mining, construction and aviation businesses in Greater China and SE Asia.

Mark spent the first nine years of his career in corporate recovery and business turnaround for PwC, London and Coopers & Lybrand, Auckland.

He studied Accounting at Auckland Technical University.

Roger was Group CEO of LCH.Clearnet, one of the world’s most important financial infrastructure companies providing clearing services to the world’s largest stock exchanges and the OTC market. Prior to this he worked at Citibank and Goldman Sachs where he was Global Head of Operations based in New York.

Roger began his career in mining as manager of a UK coal mine in Kent during the 1980s. He has served on a number of financial infrastructure and mining boards including Euroclear.

Roger studied mine engineering at Nottingham University.

Specialisms: capital markets infrastructure, and mining.

Sarah is CEO of Minerva Analytics Ltd., the UK’s first electronic proxy voting service founded in 1995. In addition to a full-service voting platform, Minerva’s services include objective data and research covering voting results, governance, remuneration and sustainability, customised voting policies as well as a number of proprietary ESG benchmarking solutions for up to 6,500 global companies.

Specialisms: proxy voting, corporate governance, ESG and sustainability data and analytics.

Jonathan is Chair of Birmingham Health Partners, the academic health science partnership of the UK’s second city. This includes: the University of Birmingham and Aston University Hospitals and nine other Birmingham NHS trusts.

Prior to this he was Head of Health at PA Consulting, a Senior Partner at GE Healthcare, and a founding partner and Director of Business Development at Circle.

He started his career on the NHS Management Training Scheme and was an epidemiologist at the West Midlands Regional Health Authority.

Jonathan read Geography at the University of Exeter and took a Master’s in Public Health at the University of Birmingham.

Nawaz is CEO of Issufy, an equity markets IPO platform for investment banks and asset managers. Previously he worked at Citi where he held a variety of roles in equity sales, trading and strategy, including Head of Emerging Markets Equity Trading Strategy. He also worked at JP Morgan Asset Management and Private Bank in Asia.

Nawaz has significant experience in corporate strategy, financing and investing.

Nawaz read Economics at the London School of Economics, and took an MBA from the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Specialisms: equity capital markets, emerging markets fintech, and wealth management.

Stuart was European Head of ABS Trading and Sterling FRNs at Barclays Capital where he led the team trading residential and commercial ABS.

Stuart studied for a Master’s at the University of Nottingham and an undergraduate degree from Leeds University.

Specialisms: asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) structuring and valuation, and property.

Patrick has over 30 years’ experience in the International Executive Search business and has been involved in the building, sale and disposal of several recruitment businesses, more latterly the Hanover Search Group, which he started in 1995 and sold in 2014.

His area of expertise is in the Global Family Office, MFO, UHNW and Wealth Management sectors acting in both a recruitment and advisory capacity.