Stacey Kivel

Oil & gas, Africa

Stacey has for many years been in-house counsel and legal adviser for a number of oil and gas companies: H Oil, Equator Exploration, Minexco Petroleum, DIG Oil, Tower Resources and Nor Energy. She has also worked for Euromoney and Consensus International Business Development. She has unprecedented experience negotiating contracts in many African counties.

Fluent in both English and French, she holds both US and UK citizenship. She has a JD in Law from Pepperdine University School of Law, California, a BS in Finance and Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and well as studying at the American University of Paris.

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Charles Hancock
Charles Hancock

Chief Executive

Charles is a senior investment banker with over 30 years’ experience in international corporate finance. During his time, he has been involved with some of the most complex transactions of the period: Argyll’s £2.5 billion hostile bid for Distillers against Guinness (then largest UK take-over bid), WPP’s hostile US take-over of J. Walter Thompson, creating the £483 million European venture capital fund for Electra Investment Trust (then the largest European private equity fund), advising the large German conglomerate VEBA on its European joint venture with Cable and Wireless, including a purchase of £896 million shares in Cable and Wireless, then the largest ever stock market transaction. Prior to Anglo-Suisse Capital, Charles worked for Samuel Montagu, Morgan Grenfell and NatWest Markets. He was Chief Executive of London quoted Anglo Asian Mining PLC and Managing Director of LII Europe GmbH, a large German chemical company.

Stephen McHugh
Stephen McHugh

Chief Operating Officer

Stephen leads the asset gathering activities of Anglo-Suisse by identifying and developing new relationships with family offices, institutional investors, endowments and foundations, etc. and leading the development of marketing and investor materials for both potential and existing investors. With a sales and marketing background, he conducts the appropriate market research on target prospects, setting up meetings and clearly communicating the project fundamentals, initiating client relationships and managing the entire process including long term relationships with investors, including regular IR activities such as roadshows, conferences etc. He was previously a management consultant with Cognizant, where he had been providing mission critical operations guidance and expertise at the CxO level to both SME and global corporations. He has over 25 years of management experience with companies such as Aviva, Telefonica, Arabic Radio & TV, RAI TV, Allstate Insurance, FPL, Prudential, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Sky TV, STAR TV and Rolls-Royce Cars.

Neil Campbell
Neil Campbell

Head of Alternatives

Neil was previously Head of Alternative Investments division at Tullett Prebon, which provides its institutional investor base with the opportunity to access primary and secondary markets in all types of alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds. The focus of the team is to facilitate the exit and entry of positions in alternative investment funds and he managed over $6 billion of secondary sales to private equity and hedge funds. Prior to this, Neil was a Portfolio Manager in commodities/natural resources for Axiom Funds and he launched a niche Commodities/natural resource product. His role was to identify managers in Europe, Asia and the US, negotiate capacity and allocate capital as well as completing several secondary transactions. He was the head of Capital Markets for Harlow Butler in Tokyo following equity sales for Charles Stanley. Neil studied Business and Marketing at Bournemouth University.

Simon Piggott
Simon Piggott

Family offices

Simon Piggott was a Director of Finance & Investment for the SEE Property Fund and a Senior Advisor to Lehner Investments, Monaco. He was Chairman and Director of the Boka Fund from 2005-2008, the leading Residential Property Fund in Montenegro. Chaired the Investment and Oversight Committee from inception and was involved closely with Finance and Institutional Investor relations for the Fund. He has also had a long career in Wealth Management having filled the roles of Senior Client Manager with Lloyds TSB Bank and HSBC in Monaco and Head of Italian Department for Merrill Lynch. He holds a B.A. Hons. from University College London and an M.A. from Milan University. Simon is bilingual English-Italian and speaks fluent French and Spanish.

Timothy Holder
Timothy Holder

Middle East

A highly accomplished investment banker with established relationships and expertise across a broad range of disciplines, Timothy Holder is based in Zurich and has 26 years of corporate and project finance experience, mostly in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. His experience includes advising the Government of the UAE on the adoption of Public-Private Partnerships in a number of sectors including healthcare and education. Much of his career has been spent in the Middle East, where he has spearheaded a series of complex project financings in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Lebanon. Previously head of the Bahrain office for Taylor-DeJongh, a specialist merchant bank. He has held positions at Business Development Asia LLC, MerchantBridge, Schroders (now Citigroup), Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse and Close Brothers. Since 1990, Mr Holder has advised the UK Ministry of Defence on the Al Yamamah Economic Offset Programme in Saudi Arabia. He is an economics graduate from the University of Warwick and a qualified chartered accountant.

Stacey Kivel
Stacey Kivel

Oil & gas, Africa

Stacey has for many years been in-house counsel and legal adviser for a number of oil and gas companies: H Oil, Equator Exploration, Minexco Petroleum, DIG Oil, Tower Resources and Nor Energy. She has also worked for Euromoney and Consensus International Business Development. She has unprecedented experience negotiating contracts in many African counties. Fluent in both English and French, she holds both US and UK citizenship. She has a JD in Law from Pepperdine University School of Law, California, a BS in Finance and Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as studying at the American University of Paris.

Alain de Brauwere-Bentinck
Alain de Brauwere-Bentinck

Adviser

Alain, a Dutch national, resides in London. He is a legal, investment and corporate finance professional, with over 27 years work experience and working at partner level with (International) Law-Firms, an Investment Bank (”Managing Director”) and Family Offices. Alain graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Dutch Law and in International Law (Masters with Honours) and from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with an extension at Exeter University and Harvard Law School. Alain joined the Hanson Group of Companies as Director Special Opportunities and Business Development an asset management company. Currently Alain is still advising and partnering with the Chairman of Hanson Capital, the Hon. Robert Hanson in relation to investments and fund raising for opportunities in different sectors, such as agriculture, media, logistics, energy and medcare. For a period of 3 years, Alain worked as Managing Director at a London based boutique investment bank, Clermont Energy Ltd, focusing on emerging markets.

Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris

Middle East

Johnny is an experienced stock broker and specialist salesman with a particularly strong contact base amongst large institutional investors based in the Middle East. Prior to joining Anglo-Suisse Capital, he worked for Numis Securities. He has over 30 years experience in advising companies on their approach to international equity capital markets including how best to raise funds by way of primary or secondary public offering, rights issue or placing. After Ampleforth and The Scots Guards, he became a Partner with stockbroker Fielding Newson Smith and continued as a Director following the merger with County NatWest. He continued his career as an institutional equity salesman with particular responsibility for Arab institutions at Kitcat & Aiken, Williams de Broe and Durlacher. From 2004 to 2006, he was with HCM Asset Management Group where he was involved with markets, stocks and writing a monthly bulletin for investors. He is a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute.

John Wilkes
John Wilkes

Oil & Gas, Middle East

John has completed over 100 corporate assignments with a combined value exceeding £12.5 billion in his 23 years of corporate finance experience across Equity Capital Markets, M&A, Capital Raising for Funds and Private Equity advisory work. He has worked across all sectors of the market but has particular knowledge of Oil & Gas/Natural Resources, Financial Services and the Leisure Sector. He has worked as an AIM Nominated Adviser (“Nomad”) or NA2 experienced in IPO and secondary share issue work. He also has extensive experience of M&A, Private Equity, Equity linked debt issues and Restructuring work. For 15 years, John worked for HSBC Investment Bank which had acquired Samuel Montagu. After HSBC he became a Director of British Linen Advisers where he was part of the Buy Out/Buy In from Bank of Scotland and then a Partner at Nabarro Wells. Nabarro Wells was noted for its Oil & Gas and Natural Resource work and John was responsible for many of the larger clients. John is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Oxford University graduate.

Kyle Thomas McHugh
Kyle Thomas McHugh

Executive Investment and Research Analyst