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Corporate Finance Team

Name Louis Castro
Title Head of Corporate Finance
Email louis.castro@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7209

Louis joined Matrix in June 2008. He has over 20 years of corporate finance and broking experience including three years as Head of Corporate Finance at Insinger de Beaufort, eight years at Williams de Broe, six years at Price Waterhouse and three years at SG Warburg. He has widespread international expertise, having acted for companies in Australia, Canada, the Far East, South America and a number of former Soviet Union countries, in a variety of sectors including Oil & Gas and Mining.

Name Stephen Mischler
Title Director of Corporate Finance
Email stephen.mischler@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7203

Stephen originally joined Matrix in May 2000 as a Director of Corporate Finance. Stephen BA FCA qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in 1977. Since 1978, Stephen has worked in corporate finance with major investment banks and as a director of Hill Samuel, CSFB, Citibank and SG Hambros. He is experienced in flotations and has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisition transactions in public and private, domestic and cross-border markets. Stephen is the initial point of contact for all AIM transactions.

Name Alastair Stratton
Title Director of Corporate Finance
Email alastair.stratton@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7204

Alastair joined Matrix in May 2005. Prior to joining, Alastair worked in Corporate Finance with Williams de Broë Plc, providing financial advice to smaller and medium sized companies. Alastair has advised on all types of transactions including flotations, takeovers, acquisitions and fund raisings. In recent times he has specialised in advising mining and energy companies and completed transactions include the IPO’s of Leed Petroleum PLC, Tanzanite One Limited and UraMin Inc. He is a member of the Securities and Investment Institute.

Name Nick Ellis
Title Partner
Email nick.ellis@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7365

Nick joined Matrix in March 2009, he has a degree in engineering (Bsc MBA). After a period working in engineering and manufacturing he moved into venture capital, before joining the Corporate Finance Department at Cazenove. At Cazenove he was involved with a number of FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies, with specialisation in emerging technology business. Since leaving Cazenove he has worked at Panmure Gordon and Collins Stewart. At Collins Stewart he worked on several innovative transactions, including the first AIPO of Northumbrian Water, the listing of gaming companies and a number of financial services transactions. He has also advised on numerous M&A transactions and IPO’s.

Name Tim Graham
Title Corporate Finance Executive
Email tim.graham@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7206

Tim joined Matrix in July 2007 following two years with PLUS Markets as a Regulatory Analyst. Tim has advised on flotations, takeovers, acquisitions, fundraisings and capital markets regulations. Tim also previously worked for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Financial Services. He graduated from Adelaide University with a Bachelor of Commerce (Corporate Finance & International Business) during which time he also attended the Sauder School of Business in Vancouver, Canada.

Name Anu Tayal
Title Corporate Finance Executive
Email anu.tayal@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7205

Anu joined Matrix in September 2007. Before then he worked in Ernst & Young LLP’s Transaction Advisory Group, providing financial transaction and due diligence advice to Private Equity houses and Corporate clients. He has worked on many types of transactions including flotations, fund raisings, refinancings and acquisitions of both private and public companies and more recently has specialised in Mining and Metals transactions. Anu is a Chartered Accountant.

Name Ken Vere Nicoll
Title Senior Consultant
Email kvn@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7202

Ken merged his company with Matrix-Securities to form Matrix Corporate Finance in 1998. He has over 30 years' corporate finance experience, of which 18 years was spent with Baring Brothers in various locations including South Africa and Australia. Ken has overseen numerous transactions, advisory assignments and fundraisings.

Name Mark Maclean
Title Partner
Email mark.maclean@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7113

Mark MacLean joined Matrix in February 2008. Mark has had over 25 year’s international experience in investment banking, M&A and institutional private placement. Prior to joining Matrix, Mark was a Director and Head of Private Equity Advisory for Seymour Pierce Limited in London and Global Head of Private Placement for WestLB Group. Previously, Mark was a Director of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London and Vice-President of Kidder Peabody & Co in San Francisco.

Name Paul Jackson
Title Director, Real Estate Finance
Email paul.jackson@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7097

Paul joined Matrix in 2009. Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA) with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2003, where he worked in the Private Equity and Investment Management group for 4 years. Following this he worked in corporate finance on two pan European Real Estate Funds at Henderson Global Investors and on a Central and Eastern European focused Fund at Dawnay Day. Paul has worked on the establishment of new Funds, structuring, investor relations and has been involved in transactions in excess of €500 million on a Pan European basis.

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 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 Ruth Macmillan
Title Assistant to Malcolm Le May & Louis Castro
Email ruth.macmillan@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7324

Ruth joined Matrix in July 2009. She previously worked for Marathon Asset Management in the West End of London as an Executive Assistant.

Name Kelly Benson
Title PA to Investment Funds Corporate Finance
Email kelly.benson@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7323

Joined Matrix Corporate Finance in November 2009. Prior to joining Matrix she was an Executive Assistant at Reuters, now Thomson Reuters, for 8 years.