Board Archives - Hannam & Partners

Neil Passmore

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).

Michael Reynolds

Michael was formerly acting Global Head of Equity Compliance for Barclays Capital. He has also held positions as Global Head of Compliance at JPMorgan Cazenove, Co Global Head of Compliance and Legal at Swiss Re (Capital Management and Advisory) and Head of Investment Banking Compliance at Nomura International.

James Ward

James is an accomplished entrepreneurial accountant who founded Whale Rock in 2004 and then sold it to Capita plc in 2012. He has significant advisory and transaction experience in both private and public markets including in the natural resources sector.

As well as acting as NED for Hannam & Partners, James also sits as an advisor to a number of companies across various sectors. He is also a charity Treasurer.