Our people

Formerly Chairman of Global Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan, Ian has worked on over 300 transactions in over 40 countries during a 30 year career. Ian’s capital markets experience includes transformational transactions for BHP Billiton, Xstrata, BT, SABMiller, Pakistan Telecom, Rio Tinto, Rosneft and HSBC. He built J.P. Morgan’s natural resources business into the leading franchise in the sector and is responsible for introducing to the London market – and growing into leading blue chip stocks – several of the major diversified mining companies (BHP Billiton, Xstrata). Ian is a former Captain in the Territorial Army (TD) and has degrees from Imperial College BSc (Eng), ACGI and London Business School (MBA, MSc Econ). He is also a Chartered Civil Engineer (MICE, CEngl, FEANI).

Neil is the CEO and co-founder of Hannam & Partners. He has worked for nineteen years in natural resources corporate finance, advising on a broad range of capital markets and M&A transactions across the natural resource sector for clients including Xstrata, BHP Billiton, British Petroleum, Savannah Energy, and others. He has helped raise over USD30bn in capital in more than 60 capital markets transactions in his career, as well as advising on several of the resource industry’s transformational mergers and acquisitions. He is an active investor and serial business founder in sustainable agriculture and nature based carbon. He is a member of YPO’s London Chapter. He was one of Financial News’ ‘Rising Stars of Finance’. Neil was formerly a helicopter pilot in the British Army and has an MBA and MA (Oxon).

Andrew was previously a Managing Director at Canaccord Genuity where he worked for almost eight years in the natural resources team. He has a broad range of international corporate finance, capital markets and M&A experience focussing on the metals, mining and natural resources sector. He has successfully advised on numerous IPOs, public and private equity and convertible capital raises and M&A transactions including AIM, TSX, ASX, NASDAQ and Official List companies, with a particular focus on Africa and the FSU. Prior to joining Canaccord Genuity, he spent four and a half years with law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner and is a qualified solicitor. He has a first class law degree from Manchester University. Andrew is acting as NED for Cora Gold Ltd (LSE: CORA) and Metals Exploration Plc (LSE: MTL).

Samuel has diverse experience in sourcing and executing M&A and capital raising projects in the energy, infrastructure and oilfield services sectors globally. He previously served in the U.S. Department of Defense as an energy envoy overseeing activity in the Middle East and Central Asia. He worked with Afghanistan’s Minister of Mines & Petroleum to structure, negotiate and manage the implementation of Afghanistan’s first-ever production sharing contracts with CNPC, Dragon Oil and TPAO. He managed seismic operations, monitored operators’ work programs and field development plans, and developed oil & gas marketing and logistics, including the negotiation of the TAPI Pipeline. Samuel is member of the Association for International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and sits on AIPN’s Leadership Committee for its Young Negotiators program. He is a graduate with honours from Union College and completed studies at Central European University (Hungary), University of Tuebingen (Germany) and Babes-Bolyai University (Romania).

Matthew was previously Managing Director at Numis Securities responsible for the mining team. He worked for 7 years as a specialist salesman and latterly in the Investment Bank. He has a broad range of skills including equity capital markets, M&A and private equity transactions. He has worked on a many IPO’s and capital raise’s for LSE, AIM, TSX & ASX companies including Randgold, Pretium, Ero Copper, Yellow Cake, Pilbara Minerals and NexGen. Prior to joining Numis he spent three years at Collins Stewart who were bought by Canaccord Genuity.

David has over 20 years of mining finance experience advising on and executing transactions globally. His breadth of experience across the financing spectrum covers private equity and ECM, trade, project and acquisition finance and royalty and streaming agreements. David was formerly at Citibank in London as the Senior Advisor to its global commodities team, with a focus on mining project analysis and structuring. Before that, he was an Executive Director at Minexia Limited in London where he was responsible for originating and structuring ECM and project finance transactions. David also led the mining investments team at Quantum Global in Mauritius, focusing on private equity and mezzanine investment opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa. This followed many years in banking working on mining project and acquisition finance transactions for Nedbank, WestLB and Rothschild in both London and Australia. David holds an Honours Degree in Business (First Class) from Monash University, a Master in Mining Engineering from Camborne School of Mines at University of Exeter and is a CFA Charterholder.

Sean is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in the natural resources sector. He started his career as an engineer, leading the design and construction of oil refineries and onshore gas plants across various international locations over a ten-year period. Sean then transitioned into banking, working in senior executive roles overseeing project finance, debt restructuring, business development and equity investment across a range of industries, including mining, oil & gas, power, and renewable energy. Sean is a Chartered Engineer and holds a BEng (Honours) from Manchester Polytechnic and an MBA from Bayes Business School in London.

Leif is from Western Australia with over 13 years of capital market experience operating across Europe, North America and Australia. Prior to joining Hannam and Partners, Leif was Head of Sales and Research at Cavendish Plc, a UK investment bank. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Finance, Leif has had a broad range of international experience advising a wide variety of growth focused businesses, providing funding solutions and strategic advisory services throughout all stages of the company life cycle. He has worked on and led numerous IPO’s and capital raisings across multiple sectors, with a bias towards natural resources, energy, industrials and technology. Leif is a board level, trusted advisor who values providing bespoke corporate advice and returns for investors.

Jay has over a decade of capital markets experience focussed on the natural resources sectors. Prior to joining Hannam & Partners in February 2018, Jay was a Director of Sales and Corporate Broking and head of natural resources at WH Ireland. Jay also worked at RBC Capital Markets as a specialist equity salesman in London and in the natural resources investment banking teams in Canada. Over the course of his career, Jay has advised and raised capital for numerous mining and oil & gas companies on most of the major stock exchanges.

Franck joined Hannam & Partners in July 2017 to work in the Investment Banking Metals and Mining team. Before joining, he worked in Global Markets at Deutsche Bank AG in London for three years as an Equity Research Analyst covering European Listed Metals and Mining companies. Franck was Lead Analyst for small / mid-cap base and precious metal names (Boliden, Polymetal, Nordgold, Acacia Mining, and Nyrstar) and Secondary Analyst for Bulk and Large cap diversified (BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore, Randgold). Together with the team, he was runner-up at the 2017 Institutional Investor survey and Top Performer at the 2016 Extel survey. Franck is a CFA Charterholder and a Graduate from ESSEC Business School Masters of Finance (French Grande Ecole). Franck has a BSc in Mathematics (hon).

Roger is Managing Director of Research at Hannam & Partners, leading a team of analysts providing equity market and industry insights for investor clients. Roger has over 16 years’ experience in mining & metals equity research, having worked at UBS, Sanford C Bernstein and J.P. Morgan Cazenove. Prior to joining H&P, he headed J.P. Morgan’s European Steel Sector coverage, winning recognition in the 2016 Institutional Investor survey. Roger holds a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University, graduating with first class honours, and is a CFA charter holder.

Jonathan Guy has twenty three years capital markets experience covering the mining sector as an equity analyst. Prior to joining Hannam & Partners he was co-head of mining research at Berenberg and has also worked at a number of other brokers including Numis, RBC and Investec, principally focusing on covering gold and silver mining companies. Jonathan trained as a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines and holds a B.Eng in Industrial Geology.

Ian has over 20 years of corporate finance experience working across a number of different sectors. Over the last fifteen years, Ian has focused exclusively on the metals and mining sector. Previously, Ian worked in an in-house M&A and strategy role with one of Australia’s largest companies and, prior to that, in the M&A team of a large European investment bank in Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Law from the University of New South Wales. He is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Eloise has over 15 years of experience in project finance, structured finance and capital structuring advisory with a focus on the energy and natural resources sector. She previously worked at ING in the project finance advisory team focusing on large scale projects in the energy and natural resources sector. In addition to English, Eloise speaks French (native) and Spanish (fluent). She holds a Master of Humanities from the Sorbonne University, a Master of International Business (Honours) from Institut d’Etudes Politiques and an MBA from ESSEC. Eloise is currently on the board of Aya Gold & Silver Inc. (TSX: AYA; OTCQX: AYASF).

Anish joined H&P in 2018 and launched coverage on E&Ps Eco (Atlantic), Hurricane Energy and Savannah Petroleum. He has over 15 years’ experience of equity research in the oil & gas sector and most recently was Managing Director for oil & gas equity research at Tudor Pickering Holt & Co, covering global E&Ps and integrated oil companies. Previously he was an oil & gas equity research analyst at UBS covering 15 stocks across Europe.

Andrew is a qualified lawyer with over 25 years’ of experience working on various transactions in the UK and internationally. Andrew spent ten years working for two leading international law firms (White & Case LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP). He then spent ten years as general counsel for two sizeable international funds, leading their M&A transactions and financing arrangements, whilst ensuring that high quality corporate governance was adopted and followed. Andrew holds a Bachelor or Laws from the University of Leeds and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Guildford College of Law. He sits on H&P’s Board as a Non Executive Director as well as our legal counsel.

Kiran has extensive financial services experience across multiple asset classes. Having started her career in private wealth management, she has worked at hedge funds, asset management, and private equity in both front office and compliance roles. Most recently, Kiran was the global head of compliance at a fintech startup covering LATAM, North America, EMEA. Over the course of her career Kiran has worked with many regulatory agencies including the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, the Takeover Panel, the Central Bank of Ireland and the De Nederlansche Bank. She has BSc in Economics & Accountancy from City University.