Senior Advisors

Roger Lidell
Senior Advisor
Roger was Group CEO of LCH.Clearnet, one of the world’s most important financial infrastructure companies providing clearing services 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 Wilson
Senior Advisor
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.

Stuart Calnan
Senior Advisor
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 a Masters 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.

Nawaz Imam
Advisor
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 and also 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.

Patrick Field
SENIOR Advisor
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.