Formerly Chairman of Global Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan, Ian has worked on over 300 transactions in over 40 countries during a 30 year career. Ian’s capital markets experience includes transformational transactions for BHP Billiton, Xstrata, BT, SABMiller, Pakistan Telecom, Rio Tinto, Rosneft and HSBC. He built J.P. Morgan’s natural resources business into the leading franchise in the sector and is responsible for introducing to the London market – and growing into leading blue chip stocks – several of the major diversified mining companies (BHP Billiton, Xstrata). Ian is a former Captain in the Territorial Army (TD) and has degrees from Imperial College BSc (Eng), ACGI and London Business School (MBA, MSc Econ). He is also a Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE, CEngl, FEANI).
Neil is the CEO and co-founder of Hannam & Partners. He has worked for nineteen years in natural resources corporate finance, advising on a broad range of capital markets and M&A transactions across the natural resource sector for clients including Xstrata, BHP Billiton, British Petroleum, Savannah Energy, and others. He has helped raise over USD30bn in capital in more than 60 capital markets transactions in his career, as well as advising on several of the resource industry’s transformational mergers and acquisitions. He is an active investor and serial business founder in sustainable agriculture and nature based carbon. He is a member of YPO’s London Chapter. He was one of Financial News’ ‘Rising Stars of Finance’. Neil was formerly a helicopter pilot in the British Army and has an MBA and MA (Oxon).
Giles has 30 years of investment banking experience focusing on global capital markets. Prior to joining Hannam & Partners in 2014, Giles was President and Head of Capital Markets at Canaccord Genuity in London. From 2005 to 2008 Giles led Fox–Pitt, Kelton (specialist FIG Investment Bank) as CEO following an MBO from Swiss Re – Giles and the management of FPK teamed up with JC Flowers on the buyout from Swiss Re. Prior to joining FPK, Giles spent five years on the Global Equities Management Committee at ABN AMRO, first as Global Head of Trading and latterly as Head of European Equities. Prior to the purchase of Hoare Govett by ABN AMRO Giles was Managing Director for Secondary Markets. Giles has a BA from Southampton University.
Andrew was previously a Managing Director at Canaccord Genuity where he worked for almost eight years in the natural resources team. He has a broad range of international corporate finance, capital markets and M&A experience focussing on the metals, mining and natural resources sector. He has successfully advised on numerous IPOs, public and private equity and convertible capital raises and M&A transactions including AIM, TSX, ASX, NASDAQ and Official List companies, with a particular focus on Africa and the FSU. Prior to joining Canaccord Genuity, he spent four and a half years with law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner and is a qualified solicitor. He has a first class law degree from Manchester University. Andrew is acting as NED for Cora Gold Ltd (LSE: CORA) and Metals Exploration Plc (LSE: MTL).
Samuel has diverse experience in sourcing and executing M&A and capital raising projects in the energy, infrastructure and oilfield services sectors globally. He previously served in the U.S. Department of Defense as an energy envoy overseeing activity in the Middle East and Central Asia. He worked with Afghanistan’s Minister of Mines & Petroleum to structure, negotiate and manage the implementation of Afghanistan’s first-ever production sharing contracts with CNPC, Dragon Oil and TPAO. He managed seismic operations, monitored operators’ work programs and field development plans, and developed oil & gas marketing and logistics, including the negotiation of the TAPI Pipeline. Samuel is member of the Association for International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and sits on AIPN’s Leadership Committee for its Young Negotiators program. He is a graduate with honours from Union College and completed studies at Central European University (Hungary), University of Tuebingen (Germany) and Babes-Bolyai University (Romania).
Matthew was previously Managing Director at Numis Securities responsible for the mining team. He worked for 7 years as a specialist salesman and latterly in the Investment Bank. He has a broad range of skills including equity capital markets, M&A and private equity transactions. He has worked on a many IPO’s and capital raise’s for LSE, AIM, TSX & ASX companies including Randgold, Pretium, Ero Copper, Yellow Cake, Pilbara Minerals and NexGen. Prior to joining Numis he spent three years at Collins Stewart who were bought by Canaccord Genuity.
Ernest advises primarily on mergers & acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on the financial services sector. His broad public markets experience includes advising on multiple hostile and contested takeovers, cross-border takeovers, and IPOs on the London Stock Exchange and other global exchanges. In M&A he has acted for leading private equity firms, UK FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies in successful buyside and sellside processes. He has a particular focus on the London market including UK Takeover Code advice. Prior to joining Hannam & Partners in 2013 he worked in the UK investment banking teams at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Investec. He has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.
Jay has over a decade of capital markets experience focussed on the natural resources sectors. Prior to joining Hannam & Partners in February 2018, Jay was a Director of Sales and Corporate Broking and head of natural resources at WH Ireland. Jay also worked at RBC Capital Markets as a specialist equity salesman in London and in the natural resources investment banking teams in Canada. Over the course of his career, Jay has advised and raised capital for numerous mining and oil & gas companies on most of the major stock exchanges.
Andrew has over 20 years of capital markets experience covering the Industrials and Energy sectors as both an equity analyst and specialist salesman. Prior to joining us he was a Director at Exane helping to launch Energy coverage and before that at Bank of America Merrill Lynch spearheading top ranked teams in both the Energy and Industrials sectors. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in numerous capital raises for both Industrial and Energy companies.
Roger is Managing Director of Research at Hannam & Partners, leading a team of analysts providing equity market and industry insights for investor clients. Roger has over 16 years’ experience in mining & metals equity research, having worked at UBS, Sanford C Bernstein and J.P. Morgan Cazenove. Prior to joining H&P, he headed J.P. Morgan’s European Steel Sector coverage, winning recognition in the 2016 Institutional Investor survey. Roger holds a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University, graduating with first class honours, and is a CFA charter holder.
