The Management Team

Simon is a founder of Oriel Securities.  Launched in 2002, Simon has grown the business aggressively to its current strong position. Prior to this role, Simon worked at HSBC Investment Bank, Cargill Financial Markets and Hoare Govett.

Simon has over twenty years experience in financial services, helping companies and investors to be successful.

Simon graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Chemistry and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell (KPMG).

David has over 25 years' corporate finance experience advising companies on M&A and capital raising transactions.

David followed his graduation in Law from Nottingham University by qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.  In 1984 he joined the Corporate Finance Division of Schroders where he spent a total of twelve years, including four on secondment to Schroders in Sydney.  His experience with Schroders encompassed a wide range of transactions, including hostile and recommended public bids, public and private company mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings for a mid-to-large capitalisation client base.  From 1996 he worked as a Director of Close Brothers Corporate Finance, developing its business advising mid-capitalisation companies across most industry sectors.

Susan read law at Hertford College, Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1991.  After qualification, she worked as an employment lawyer in the City, most recently as an equity partner at Nabarro.

Susan joined Oriel as its Human Resources Director in November 2009 having worked with the business previously over a number of years and became Company Secretary in April 2011.

Andrew has 28 years experience in Equity Markets and prior to joining Oriel was Head of Sales at Numis.  He spent 14 years (1992-2006) at ABN (Hoare Govett) latterly as Deputy Head of Pan European Sales and 6 years at BZW where he was a Leisure sector specialist, this included a period in Corporate Finance/M&A.  Andrew originally joined the City in 1983 as a Hotel & Leisure sector analyst with stockbrokers, Laurie Milbank & Co.

Mark has over thirty years experience in Investment banking and joined Oriel in October 2009.

Mark is a senior trader with a vast range of experience and knowledge of the Securities Industry.

He was Head of Pan European trading at Dresdner Kleinwort where he has been on the trading desk for 17 years. He started his City career at De Zoete and Bevan before moving to Morgan Grenfell Securities and then Natwest Securities

David joined Oriel in 2009 and became Finance Director in 2011.  David graduated with honours from the University of Glasgow in 1993 and then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with ICAS in 1996 as a prize winner whilst at KPMG Glasgow.  Having spent two years on secondment to KPMG Paris, David then joined HSBC International and latterly worked as financial controller of HSBC Card Services before moving to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Natixis.

Paul Thompson joined Oriel Securities as Deputy Chief Executive in January, 2011. He has over 25 years’ experience in the securities industry, including stints as a European chemicals sector analyst and a South East Asia specialist equity salesman, and has held senior management posts at a number of investment banks. Between 1999 and 2009 he was Chief Operating officer for EMEA Equities at Citigroup and, latterly, was a founding partner of Amias Berman & Co., a global fixed income brokerage. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union.

Mike joined Oriel Securities in April 2006 from HSBC Investment Bank to initiate research coverage of the UK banks sector and became Head of Research in January 2011.  He has over 20 years experience in the UK banking sector, initially working for TSB Group plc in corporate planning and finance.  For the last 17 years or so Mike has been the UK banks analyst with S G Warburg, Schroder Securities and HSBC.  At HSBC he also managed the global banks research teams for both the debt and equity markets.  Mike has been involved in a number of corporate transactions including building society demutualisation, acquisitions, recapitalisations and securitisation.

David was until December 2000, Chairman and Chief Executive of the investment bank ING Barings, and a Board member of the ING Group. Before joining the ING Group, he spent 18 years with Phillips & Drew and UBS, becoming Executive Vice President and Regional Head of UBS Europe, and a member of the Group Executive Board.  David has extensive UK and international experience having held senior management, research, sales and trading roles in the UK, Japan, the United States, Switzerland and Australia.

David is a former non-executive Chairman of LCH Clearnet Ltd, non-executive Director of RWC Partners and investment advisor to the Universities Superannuation Fund.  He is currently non-executive Chairman of the Henderson TR Pacific Investment Trust, Senior Independent Director of Meggitt PLC and a non-executive director of two venture capital-backed companies. In addition, he is the former Chairman of New Philanthropy Capital and Chairman of two other charities.

John is non executive Chairman of Norcros plc an international group which includes Triton the leading UK shower manufacturer.  Until his retirement in 2005 he was Chief Executive of Speedy Hire plc, a company he founded in 1977.  Curently John is a non exec director of Henry Boot plc and Lookers plc and Chairman of Scott Harris the leading investor relations company.

Bim is CEO and owner of The Santon Group, which has successfully undertaken several hundred million pounds of developments across the UK.  He was a founder and CEO of Raven Mount plc, a founder of Raven Russia Limited, which he helped to list on AIM raising over £450m, and CEO of the external Fund Manager to that company.  He was Chairman and a founder of Audley, an assisted living business operating retirement villages.  In the 1990s he was MD of the UK Operations of the Australian developer Hudson Conway and represented their 50% interest as a director of The Courage Pub Company plc.  He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and was secretary to the UK Property & Construction Group.

Bim is a graduate of the LSE and graduated from CASS Business School with a distinction and joint-top of his class.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounants as well as the Institute of Directors and Chartered Management Institute.  He is Chairman and founder of The Sandhu Charitable Foundation.

Peter joined Hoare & Co in 1965, he became a partner of Hoare Govett in 1973 and spent 42 years working in the City prior to his retirement from Hoare Govett in 2007.  Peter was previously a member of Oriel's Advisory Board before agreeing to join the board as a Non-Executive Director.