Tim is a successful entrepreneur with over twenty years experience in commerce and the City. He was founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of Ludgate Group, the international public relations company which he sold to Interpublic.

He is currently Chairman of a number of public and private companies and his business interests include Beachcroft, Citywire, Franklin Templeton, Lexicon Partners, Marks Sattin amongst others. He enjoys sport and travel.

Tim has an invaluable depth of understanding of the financial markets and their drivers derived from over 20 years of experience. After starting as an analyst, Tim went on to head a sales desk at Citigroup before becoming Head of Research in debt and equities for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Merrill Lynch.

Tim was educated in Scotland, has a degree in Business Studies and is a keen shot.

Piers is a strategic communications advisor to some of the largest companies in the world.

He has been marketing director of both Hill & Knowlton and Shandwick, and was director of strategy and development for Richards Butler. He enjoys sailing.

Robert’s career spans 20 years in both the commercial and financial sectors from corporate financier to CEO. He has worked with a range of quoted and unquoted companies in diverse industries and holds several non-executive positions.

Robert is a qualified chartered accountant with a fondness for opera and gardening.

Prior to joining h2glenfern, Claire practised as a criminal barrister for a number of years before joining the pan-European Equity Sales desk at Merrill Lynch, where she sold UK and European equities into primarily Dutch accounts. Whilst at Merrill Lynch Claire was involved in numerous IPO and secondary fundraisings, accompanying corporates on both deal and non deal road shows around Europe.

Claire read Law at Bristol University and enjoys travel.

Steve has recently retired from a 32 year career in the Investment Management industry. His last position was Head of European Equities at Credit Suisse Asset Management, prior to this, he worked for JP Morgan and NM Rothschild leading investment management teams in equity research, portfolio management and client servicing.

Steve graduated from Bristol University, enjoys playing golf and tennis. He also considers himself to be somewhat of an expert in wild mushrooming.

Lucy has more than 12 years experience as an equity research analyst, primarily at Merrill Lynch where she worked for ten years. For the majority of that time, Lucy led the Software and Computer Services team. Under her leadership, the team was rated number one by both Institutional Investor and Extel. Latterly, Lucy was head of the pan-European Small and Mid-Cap Equity Research team.

Lucy began her career at KPMG where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant before going on to work in corporate broking and equity research at Dresdner Kleinwort.

Lucy studied History and Economics at Cambridge and has two young children.

Bill is an experienced fund manager who has worked for several leading fund management company over the past 25 years. He worked at Schroders Investment Management for 10 years, heading up the UK Equities team from 1999 - 2002. He also served on the Institutional Investor Group of the London Stock Exchange and on the advisory boards of several venture capital funds outside Schroders. After Schroders, he spent a brief period at Morley Fund Managers before becoming Chairman of the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and advising a number of privately owned companies. Bill graduated in modern history from Oxford before going on to qualify as an ACA with Touche Ross in 1980.

Bill joined h2glenfern in 2007 as a Partner.

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