About us

Richard Staveley has over twenty-five years’ experience of equity investment and fund management.

Having qualified as a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Richard joined Bradshaw Asset Management as assistant fund manager in 1999. He subsequently joined Société Générale Asset Management where he became Head of UK Small Companies and a CFA charterholder. In 2006, he co-founded River and Mercantile Asset Management where he was Head of Research and launched both the UK Small Company Fund and the UK Income Fund. In 2013, he joined Majedie Asset Management to co-manage and subsequently solely manage the UK small company investments. In 2019, he joined Gresham House Plc as fund manager for Gresham House Strategic Plc, the Strategic Public Equity LP and eventually the Gresham House UK Small Companies Fund. In 2021, Harwood Capital was appointed the new Investment Manager for Gresham House Strategic Plc, which changed its name to Rockwood Strategic Plc and Richard was subsequently re-appointed as lead fund manager.

Nicholas has over a decade of investment experience having joined Harwood Capital in 2019 after spending 5 years at Gabelli Asset Management in New York. He acted primarily as a Research Analyst covering the multi-industrial space and also gained experience in Merger Arbitrage strategies and Closed End Funds. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. He also works on North Atlantic Small Companies IT and is Co-Fund Manager of Oryx International Growth Limited. He currently sits on the Boards of Niox Group Plc, Trifast Plc and Hargreaves Services Plc.

Stavros has been the Head of Trading at Harwood Capital since 2011. Prior to this he was a Trader at JO Hambro Capital Management from 2000 until 2010. He has sell-side experience at N+1 Singer and Piper Jaffray prior to rejoining Harwood Capital. He is considered one of the most highly experienced dealers in small- and mid-cap equities in the London market.

Noel Lamb has had a 25-year career in investment management. He is a graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and is a barrister-at-law. He joined Lazard Brothers & Co Limited in 1987 and from 1992 to 1997 he was the managing director of Lazard Japan Asset Management where he was the fund manager for Japanese equities. In 1997, he moved to the Russell Investment Group where he established the investment management capability of Russell in London. In 2002, he was promoted to Chief Investment Officer in North America where he managed assets of $150bn until his departure in 2008. Noel served as Chairman of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund and currently sits on the board of Guinness Asset Management Funds.

Paul is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and is a Member of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment.

Paul founded Aer Ventures (formerly HD Capital Partners Ltd) in 2011 where he is Managing Partner, advising and leading corporate transactions on numerous public and private companies. Previously he worked at stockbroking firm WH Ireland where he was approved as a Qualified Executive acting as the Corporate Finance adviser on fundraisings and M&A transactions and also at Sigma Capital Group plc, a venture capital investment firm, where he advised on investment into emerging growth companies. Earlier in his career, after qualifying at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Paul was seconded to the listing department of the London Stock Exchange. He is currently an Independent Director at Katoro Gold plc and Pyne Gould Corporation Ltd.

Ken is Chair of the audit committee at Rockwood Strategic also Chairman of Marstons Plc and Cirata Plc.

Ken was previously Chief Executive of Xchanging plc and during his career has held listed company executive board positions with Tomkins plc, Albright and Wilson plc, Alfred McAlpine plc and private equity owned Numonyx BV.

In his early career Ken qualified as a Chartered Accountant and became a partner in Arthur Andersen. Until 2014 Ken was a member of the UK Accounting Standards Board. He graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Management Sciences and is now Chair of the Advisory Board of the Alliance Manchester Business School.

45 years of investment experience, Chief Executive Officer and principal shareholder of Harwood Capital Management since 2011.

He founded JO Hambro Capital Management with Jamie Hambro in 1993 acting as Chief Investment Officer and Harwood Wealth with Alan Durant in 2013 until their respective sales in 2011 and 2020. He is CEO of North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust (“NASCIT”) which he has managed since 1982 and Executive Director of Oryx International Growth Fund which he has managed since 1995. NASCIT has delivered a total NAV per share of nearly 200x under Mr. Mills’ management. He has sat on the Board of over 100 companies during his career and is currently on the Board of MJ Gleeson Plc, Bigblu Broadband Plc, River Global Plc, EKF Diagnostics Plc, Elementis Plc, Frenkel Topping Group Plc and Renalytix Plc.

16 years of investment experience.

Yuri holds degrees in Economics from University of Cambridge and LSE (distinction), as well as a degree in Bioscience Enterprise from University of Cambridge. He is also a CFA charter holder. He joined Majedie Asset Management in 2009 working as an analyst and subsequently 6 years as a fund manager of both Global and UK equity income portfolios. Yuri is CIO of Tema ETFs, acts as an adviser and board member to several early-stage businesses and writes the award-winning blog www.snippet.finance.

30 years of investment experience.

Rupert is the Founder of Edale Capital LLP (2011) where he manages a Long-Short European Hedge Fund. Rupert was formerly at Sloane Robinson for 11 years where he managed the SR European Investment Trust for 10 years and Invesco where he specialised in European equities and small companies investing. Rupert read History at Bristol.

30 years of investment experience.

Jamie was formerly lead fund manager for the Hanover Catalyst Fund, prior to which he was at Lombard Odier where, as a Fund Manager, he specialised in strategic UK small cap equity investing, having moved with the team from Henderson Global, and, prior to that, Gartmore. Earlier experience was gained at 3i and Deloitte’s where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Jamie read Maths at Oxford and is currently NED at Flowtech Fluidpower Plc, Titon Holdings, Chapel Down Group Plc and Oryx International Growth Fund.

35 years of investment experience.

Adam was a Founder of Majedie Asset Management in 2003, managing UK equity portfolios, in particular UK small companies and helping build AUM to £15bn. He joined Mercury Asset Management in 1987 where he managed the UK smaller companies Fund and High Alpha UK portfolios. Adam studied Chemistry at Oxford and is currently NED at Berkeley Energia Plc.

40 years of investment experience.

Head/Founder of European equities at Jupiter Asset Management, New Star Asset Management and Henderson Asset Management. Founder of Crux Asset Management, building European Special Situations to £2.5bn, sold to Lansdowne Partners 2023. Studied General Arts at Durham.