Fraser has had a 26-year career in the UK equity markets, working in sales and corporate broking. His focus has always been on advising and raising funds for UK companies. He started his career with Kleinwort Benson in 1994 before joining Evolution Securities in 2002, at its inception, managing the Equity Sales desk. In 2008, Fraser joined Collins Stewart to run the small-cap franchise and then joined The Royal Bank of Canada in 2009 as part of the rollout of its European Equities platform. Subsequently, Fraser joined Arden Partners in 2017, as Head of Equities and a member of its Senior Management team.

Adam has over 30 years of experience in the corporate broking world, most recently at Zeus Capital where he was Co-Head of Corporate Broking, and prior to that at Panmure Gordon where he was Head of Corporate Broking. He has also held positions at firms including Lazard Brothers, Hoare Govett, and Deutsche Bank. During his career, he has led over 300 fundraises for a wide cross-section of listed UK plc’s and has advised a number of companies, both large and small, as to their wider corporate requirements.

Adrian joined WH Ireland in October 2011 after 18 years advising small and mid-cap companies with BZW, Baird, and Collins Stewart. He has extensive experience in advising companies, both domestic and overseas, in IPOs, secondary fund raisings, public offers, and M&A transactions on both the Official List and AIM.

John began his career as an institutional equity research analyst in the City in 2002 and has worked for TD Waterhouse, Altium Securities, and WHIreland during this time. He has covered a wide range of businesses and sectors in the smaller companies space, both across AIM and the Main Market.

John has headed up the WH Ireland institutional research team since 2013. Under his leadership, the team has won the ‘Best Research’ category at the high profile AIM Awards and has been ranked on several occasions in the prestigious StarMine analyst awards.

Jasper started his career working on the market floor as a Blue Button in 1987. In 2002 he joined Collins Stewart with responsibility for integrating the newly-acquired broking business. At the end of 2004, he joined the Collins Stewart Smaller Companies Team, which over the next two years raised £2.6 billion for growth companies on both the Official List and AIM.

Chris joined WH Ireland in April 2010 after over 20 years advising small and mid-cap companies with BZW, Hoare Govett, and Arden Partners. He has extensive experience in advising companies, both domestic and overseas, in IPOs, secondary fund raisings, public offers, and M&A transactions on both the Official List and AIM.

Adrian joined WH Ireland in October 2011 after 18 years advising small and mid-cap companies with BZW, Baird, and Collins Stewart. He has extensive experience in advising companies, both domestic and overseas, in IPOs, secondary fund raisings, public offers, and M&A transactions on both the Official List and AIM.

Ben Thorne has been appointed as Managing Director, Corporate Finance in October 2019. Having qualified as a solicitor Ben specialised in corporate law before moving into Investment Banking with Kleinwort Benson where he advised small/midcap corporates on a range of Capital Markets and M&A transactions. Ben has also worked in corporate finance/broking with UK advisers GCA Altium and Panmure Gordon.

Chris joined WH Ireland in April 2010 after over 20 years advising small and mid-cap companies with BZW, Hoare Govett and Arden Partners. He has extensive experience in advising companies, both domestic and overseas, in IPOs, secondary fund raisings, public offers and M&A transactions on both the Official List and AIM.

Jessica is a Director in the Corporate Finance team based in London. A qualified chartered accountant and CFA charter holder, Jessica has advised on a wide range of public and private transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraisings, Code offers, and private M&A deals.  She is a Qualified Executive (Nomad) for AIM purposes.

Jessica qualified as an accountant with Ernst & Young in 2012 where she remained in Transaction Advisory, specialising in valuations and business modelling, until 2014. She then spent three years with Stifel Nicolaus Europe Ltd in corporate finance before joining WHIreland in 2017.

A qualified chartered accountant, Mike joined WH Ireland in March 2009 after 12 years with Rowan Dartington and then Blue Oar Securities. Mike now has over 20 years’ experience with emerging small and mid-cap companies and has advised in connection with numerous transactions including IPOs, public takeover offers and M&A transactions on both the Official List and AIM.

A chartered accountant, James has advised on a wide range of public and private transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraisings, Code offers, M&A and private equity. He previously worked at Arthur Andersen and the London Stock Exchange. Prior to joining WH Ireland, he spent 5 years working at venture capital and corporate advisory firm.

Katy qualified as a corporate lawyer at Pinsent Masons where she specialised in Mergers & Acquisitions and Takeover Code advice for mid-cap companies. She then worked at Cobbetts LLP advising international mining companies looking to quote on AIM. Since joining WH Ireland in 2004, Katy has acted exclusively for AIM companies on IPOs (both domestic and overseas), secondary fundraisings and Code transactions.

James joined WH Ireland from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2017 bringing his market-side experience to the team and has since advised on both private and public fundraises. James is a keen sportsman and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2015.

Darshan joined WH Ireland in August 2019 after more than 4 years, as a Corporate Finance Analyst, advising small and mid-cap companies with Hybridan LLP. He has a demonstrated history of working in the investment banking industry mainly corporate finance advisory, IPOs, introductions, placings, accelerated book builds, block trading and equity-linked instruments.

Chris, a chartered accountant, joined WH Ireland in 2018 after four years at EY working in audit assurance before an internal service line transfer into corporate finance. Chris has enjoyed exposure to a wide range of privately and publically owned companies operating across a variety of sectors, with specific experience within the engineering, software and energy sectors.

Matt joined WH Ireland in the Autumn of 2018 after graduating with a MA Hons in Accounting and Finance, from The University of Edinburgh. Matt is now studying for the CISI Corporate Finance exams.

Lydia joined WH Ireland in March 2019 after qualifying as a chartered accountant at EY. Lydia sat within the Wealth and Asset Management department, specialising in the audit of mutual funds, but also having exposure to a range of both public and private companies in the Financial Services sector.

Adam has over 30 years’ experience in the corporate broking world, most recently at Zeus Capital where he was Co-Head of Corporate Broking and prior to that at Panmure Gordon where he was Head of Corporate Broking. He has also held positions at firms including Lazard Brothers, Hoare Govett and Deutsche Bank. During his career, he has led over 300 fundraises for a wide cross-section of listed UK plc’s and has advised a number of companies, both large and small, as to their wider corporate requirements.

Jasper started his career working on the market floor as a Blue Button in 1987. In 2002 he joined Collins Stewart with responsibility for integrating the newly-acquired broking business. At the end of 2004, he joined the Collins Stewart Smaller Companies Team, which over the next two years raised £2.6 billion for growth companies on both the Official List and AIM.

David joined WH Ireland after over 4 years at Daniel Stewart as Head of Institutional Sales. Prior to this, he was at Collins Stewart from 2004 to 2008 and Panmure Gordon from 1988 to 2004, where he had a number of different roles in equity sales. David has over 20 years of experience in broking, and has been involved in a significant number of UK equity raises on the London market.

Hayley started her career as part of an independent investment firm, before joining the small-cap equity sales and research team at Panmure Gordon. Prior to joining WH Ireland in 2018 Hayley was an Investment Manager independently managing over £40 million of assets for an AIM-listed integrated wealth planning and investment management company. Hayley has been involved in a wide range of UK equity raises on the London market across all sectors; and has strong institutional and PCB relationships, particularly with key UK small and mid-cap investors.

Aimee joined WH Ireland in 2017 from Atlantic Equities LLP where she assisted the management of European roadshows and investor meetings for over 100 mid to large-cap US companies.

Alex joined WH Ireland in July 2020 after graduating from University College London with a 2:1 in Natural Sciences, studying Organic Chemistry and Genetics. He has previously interned at Barclays, Mobeus Equity Partners and Blenheim Chalcot.

John began his career as an institutional equity research analyst in the City in 2002 and has worked for TD Waterhouse, Altium Securities and WH Ireland during this time. He has covered a wide range of businesses and sectors in the smaller companies space, both across AIM and the Main Market.

John has headed up the WH Ireland institutional research team since 2013. Under his leadership, the team has won the ‘Best Research’ category at the high profile AIM Awards and has been ranked on several occasions in the prestigious StarMine analyst awards.

Matthew, a chartered accountant, joined WH Ireland in September 2009 to head up the Institutional Research department. He also contributes as a technology and support services analyst. Prior to this, Matthew spent six years with Williams de Broё (now Evolution). Prior to this, Matt established a technology consultancy business and practised as an accountant.

Brendan has over 13 years of experience valuing upstream oil & gas companies and has cultivated strong relations with the buy-side. Brendan is a CFA Charter holder and holds an MSc. in Finance from the London School of Economics. He also has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences-Po, Paris and a Certificate in Petroleum Reservoir Evaluation from Texas A&M University.

Paul has over 20 years analysing the mining industry. He began his career as a geologist with Rio Tinto before moving into analysis first with Brook Hunt and Associates (later Wood Mackenzie) working on the costs of supply for base and precious metals, before moving into equity analysis with WH Ireland in 2012. Paul holds a degree in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines and a PhD from the University of London.

Susanna joined the WH Ireland Corporate Finance team in 2015 and now provides support to the wider division. She has previously worked in wealth management and holds an LLM in Law.

Zuleika joined WH Ireland in February 2018 after four years at Puma Investments, working in Investor Relations and Business Development. She has 6 years SME funding experience, leading numerous private company fundraises. Zuleika holds the Investment Management Certificate.

Alex joined WH Ireland in July 2020 after graduating from University College London with a 2:1 in Natural Sciences, studying Organic Chemistry and Genetics. He has previously interned at Barclays, Mobeus Equity Partners and Blenheim Chalcot.

Jonathan is the principle consultant based in our Darlington office. He has a record of investments in 70 businesses over the last 10 years with a total raised of over £30m.