First Columbus

First Columbus’ pivotal position at the centre of the London fund raising market has enabled us to attract high quality industry and capital market professionals onto our Advisory Panel. These people play an instrumental role in helping our clients meet their financing needs from a number of different angles including:

  • Advice on business strategy and positioning ahead of a financing event.
  • Advice on presentation structure and content to enhance appeal for the UK financial audience.
  • Lending their market credibility to help promote businesses to the NOMAD/broking and institutional community.
  • In the case of equity analysts actually facilitating the pre IPO or IPO financing.

The advisory panel currently consists of a number of professionals:

  • Malcolm Morgan - Malcolm won the prestigious StarMine Award (the objective rating survey of security analysts in the UK) as being the best stock picker across all analysts in the market in 2006. He was also rated the top analyst in the Media and Communications sector.
  • Simon Strong - Simon was top 3 ranked in the IT Services and Software sector by the StarMine Survey. Simon has been responsible for numerous technology IPOs onto AIM over the past decade.
  • Sebastian Jantet - Sebastian was rated top analyst in the UK market in the Healthcare sector by Star Mine. Sebastian has presonally listed a number of Healthcare companies onto AIM.

  • James Espey - James has spent his career in the consumer goods industry. He has  held numerous high profile senior international management positions in the liquor industry including Chairman of Seagram Distillers plc and President of The Chivas and Glenlivet Group. His particular expertise is in marketing and brand creation. James holds several non executive positions including Stealthmark, a First Columbus client.

  • Paul Cliff – Paul is a Metals & Mining analyst with a particular focus on emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Paul was rated number 1 by StarMine for stock picking for the UK Metals and Mining sector in 2004 and 2005. Paul has worked for a number of major firms including Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and JP Morgan and has worked on a number of high profile IPOs on both AIM and the main London List.

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