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Equities Team

Name John McMillan
Title Head of Corporate Broking
Email john.mcmillan@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7189

John joined Matrix in May 2006 with over 20 years experience in institutional broking. This includes 12 years at Hoare Govett, where he was a senior institutional salesman and also helped establish the South African business. This was followed by several years at both Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Credit Agricole. John has extensive experience both in primary and secondary markets.

Name Oliver Hoare
Title Head of Pan European Equity Sales
Email oliver.hoare@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7386

Oliver joined Matrix in September 2009 as Head of Pan European Equity Sales. He has over 20 years experience in financial sales: most recently having worked at Collins Stewart and prior to that he spent a number of years managing sales teams at Dresdner Kleinwort and Commerzbank AG. Oliver worked at Merrill Lynch between 1990 and 1998. During this time he was relocated to Switzerland and on his return he held a country manager role for Global equities into Switzerland.

Name John Peat
Title Sales Director
Email john.peat@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7363

John joined Matrix in January 2009. Having read law at Oxford, he has spent nearly 30 years in broking, starting off in Private Clients, followed by L.Messel & Co, later Lehman Brothers, in Institutional Broking as a senior institutional salesman, then Morgan Stanley, and lastly with Collins Stewart. Where he spent thirteen and half years in their Capital Markets team, responsible for bringing a number of companies to the market, as well as secondary fund raisings.

Name John Howes
Title Sales Director
Email john.howes@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7194

John joined Matrix in April 2008. After starting his career with Legal and General Investment Management he then moved across into Broking. With over 20 years experience in Institutional Broking he was a senior institutional salesman with Panmure Gordon and Seymour Pierce where he was responsible for many primary and secondary issues

Name Murray Jacobson
Title European Equity Sales
Email murray.jacobson@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7392

Murray started in the City in 1992 as a graduate trainee with Smith New Court, having read Banking and Finance at Loughborough University. He worked as a UK equity salesman and then joined the European desk following the takeover by Merill Lynch in 1995. Murray joined Collins Stewart in 2000 where he worked as a European salesman.

Name George Fraser
Title Pan European Equity Sales
Email george.fraser@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7316

George joined Matrix in January 2010 having previously worked for the US brokerage Pali International in London. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2000 and was recruited to work for the US House of Representatives in Washington DC during the 2000 Presidential Election. He started his finance career as a Portfolio Manager at HSBC Investments (previously James Capel) in 2002 before moving to become a Divisional Director of Brewin Dolphin in 2006. He has an Honours degree in Civil Engineering and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Name Nick Edwardson
Title Equity Sales
Email nick.edwardson@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7365

Nick joined Matrix in September 2009 after ten years institutional broking with Sutherlands, Charterhouse and, latterly, ING Wholesale Banking where he co-ordinated equity sales to Scottish Institutional clients and ran the Edinburgh office. Prior to this he enjoyed three years trading soft commodity futures and options, four years in the British Army and holds a degree in Russian from the University of Exeter.

Name Charlie Peat
Title Equity Sales
Email charlie.peat@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7394

Charlie joined Matrix in November 2009. After leaving the London School of Economics in 2001 Charlie began his career as a financial journalist at The Sunday Times. In 2003 Charlie moved to Investec Securities where he worked predominantly with UK Hedge-Fund clients. In 2006 Charlie joined the ECM team at Collins Stewart where he was involved in a number of IPOs and corporate transactions. In August 2008 Charlie moved to Dubai to help setup Collins Stewarts’ Middle-East office.

Name Chris Grudniewicz
Title Specialist Oil & Gas Sales
Email chris.grudniewicz@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7393

Chris trained as an Oil & Gas equity analyst before migrating to sectoral marketing in the late-80s. Chris been actively involved in the role for some 20 years, with Merrill Lynch/Smith New Court till 1999 & ABN AMRO until 2004. In 2005 Chris helped start-up Tristone Capital’s London office (MD - Institutional Sales), leaving following its acquisition by Macquarie Bank in 2009. Chris began his career at BP (1980) and the City (Scott, Goff, Hancock, 1982) after gaining a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics and a PhD (both London Univ).

Name Dick Hine
Title Head of Trading/Sales Trading
Email dick.hine@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7191

Dick joined the broking division of Matrix in January 2007. After starting his career with Bisgood Bishop in 1968, progressing from Blue Button to Director, he then joined UBS in 1986 as Managing Director, Deputy Head of Trading. He went on to become Head of European Proprietary Trading before leaving in 1998 to pursue private business. Dick was then hired by Bridgewell in 2002 to set up their Trading Desk.

Name Andy Cuthill
Title Head of Sales Trading
Email andy.cuthill@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7335

Andy joined Matrix in January 2009. He has over 25 years experience and most recently set up Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander’s capital markets desk. Andy has also set up the sales trading desk at Chevreux (part of Credit Agricole); headed up the UK sales trading desk at Credit Suisse First Boston and ran the UK sales trading desk at UBS Phillips & Drew.

Name David Crompton
Title Sales Trading
Email david.crompton@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7335

David joined Matrix in January 2009. He began his career at Akroyd and Smithers in 1980 and became a member of The Stock Exchange in 1985. He then joined Hoare Govett as a market-maker following which he moved to BZW in (taken over by Credit Suisse in 1997) where he carried out various equity trading roles as well as spending 18 months as Head of Japanese Warrant trading. On returning to the equity division David became a sales trader, following which he joined Credit Agricole Chevreux in 2002. In 2006 he joined Kaupthing Singer and Frielander.

Name Paul Bigwood
Title Trader
Email paul.bigwood@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7336

Paul joined Matrix in June 2009. After starting his career in 1984 with stockbroker Guy Puckle & Co, Paul moved to BZW in 1986 (now Credit Suisse) as a market maker, progressing to Director, where he ran various sector trading and proprietary books. Paul then joined Credit Agricole Cheuvreux in 2002 to help set up and head the facilitation desk for UK, Swiss & Skandinavian equities.

Name Daniel Dempsey
Title Sales Trader
Email daniel.dempsey@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7341

Daniel joined Matrix in September 2009. He began his career in 1994 at Lombard Odier before moving to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi where he traded foreign exchange. In 2000 Daniel joined Dresdner Kleinwort as a sales trader and then as a small cap market maker.

Name Robert Martin
Title Institutional Trader
Email robert.martin@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7192

Robert joined Matrix Corporate Capital in September 2006 as institutional trader for the Broking division. He has over 7 years experience working within the financial markets. Robert spent most time at Pershing Securities Ltd, where he started his career, gaining exposure to both operational and trading areas. Robert gained further trading experience in various products working as equity dealer for both City Equities Ltd and SVS Securities Ltd.

Name Mahmoud Sahyoni
Title Trading Convertible Bonds & Sukuks
Email mahmoud.sayhoni@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7337

Mahmoud joined Matrix in July 2009. Previously at Ansbacher & Co. Ltd, Mahmoud worked as an Investment Analyst in the award-winning asset-management team covering the MENA /GCC region for total-return portfolios where he specialised in regional fixed-income and sukuk markets, along with capital-guaranteed structured products. Mahmoud has an MSc in Finance from Reading University and is a member of the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA). Mahmoud began his career as a research analyst at AUDI Investment Bank in Lebanon, where he focused on regional banks.

Name Steve Cox
Title Head of Life Sciences Corporate Broking
Email steve.cox@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7328

Steve joined Matrix in 2009. He was formerly CEO of Elixir Securities, a corporate finance business which focuses on structuring individual financing solutions for early-stage public and private biotech and life sciences companies, which he founded in 2002. Prior to Elixir, Steve spent 8 years in equity research variously covering pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemicals and healthcare at UBS Warburg, HSBC, Cazenove and, most recently, as Head of Biotech & Healthcare Research at Commerzbank Securities. Steve has a healthcare industry background having spent 5 years in research and development and in business development for Genzyme Corp in the US.

Name Stephen Waterman
Title Senior Executive, Life Sciences Corporate Broking
Email stephen.waterman@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7329

Stephen joined Matrix in July 2009 from Elixir Securities, a specialist Life Science corporate finance boutique. Prior to Elixir, Stephen worked as a sell-side analyst in Life Sciences equity research at Commerzbank and Teather & Greenwood. Stephen started his career in Life Sciences at Evaluate Pharma Plc, one of the leading providers of industry analytics. Stephen holds a PhD from Cambridge University.

Name Nick Feeny
Title Head of Operations
Email nick.feeny@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7322

Nick is a qualified chartered accountant completing his training with Price Waterhouse. He is head of operations for Matrix Corporate Capital LLP and Matrix Investment Management. Prior to joining Matrix, Nick accumulated over 20 years experience of operations and infrastructure primarily at Winterflood Securities and State Street Global Markets.

Name Andrew Harris
Title Senior Operations Coordinator
Email andrew.harris@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7361

Andrew joined Matrix in February 2009. He spent 20 years in various settlement areas of Teather & Greenwood and the last three years at Hichens Harrison covering Equity, Derivative and CFD settlements.

Name Mal Tucker
Title Operations Manager
Email mal.tucker@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7370

Mal joined Matrix Corporate Capital in August 2009 from Singer Capital Markets. He has over twenty years experience in operations roles. He joined Teather and Greenwood in 1998 in managerial roles within operations.

Name Ben Massett
Title Operations
Email ben.massett@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7320

Ben joined Matrix in October 2009 after working at Credit Suisse for 3 years in a Trade Support role. Prior to joining Matrix Ben has accumulated 12 years experience in Operations covering Equity, Fixed Income and Futures.

Name Cally Finch
Title Operations Assistant
Email cally.finch@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7366

Joined Matrix March 2009 after working at Teather & Greenwood for 3 years in a Middle office/ Trade support role. Previous to that worked in various settlement roles.

Name Chantelle Human
Title Operations Assistant
Email chantelle.human@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7323

Chantelle joined Matrix in August 2007 as Office Assistant to the Group. She has grown within the company, moving to the Investment Funds team and now concentrates on her role as Operations Assistant for Matrix Corporate Capital and Matrix Investment Management.

Name Paul Springer
Title Compliance Officer
Email paul.springer@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7390

Paul joined Matrix in October 2009 after 8 years as Compliance & Finance Officer at a small firm of brokers. Prior to this he spent 5 years at the FSA in Corporate Authorisation, after originally joining IMRO. Paul’s background before this was in audit and accountancy, having qualified as a chartered accountant.

Name Juliet Biggart
Title Assistant to Charles Good
Email juliet.biggart@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7182

Juliet joined Matrix in August 2008 as assistant to Charles Good. Juliet previously worked for the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Jones Lang LaSalle.