Mark Warde-Norbury - Executive Chairman

Mark spent 14 years with the investment bank Robert Fleming and Co Limited (“Robert Fleming”) and its subsidiary Save & Prosper Group Limited, where as a senior manager he helped to launch and manage the Fleming Private Banking operations in the UK. On leaving in 1998 he established Capital Strategy Plc (now St Helen’s Capital). Mark’s other directorships include Flight & Partners Limited and he has previously been a director of STG Holdings Plc, an investment holding company, and HTTP Technology Inc., which was subsequently renamed MedicSight, Inc.

Ruari McGirr - Chief Executive Officer

Ruari has over 13 years’ experience of providing corporate finance advice and corporate broking services to small cap companies. He has advised on all aspects of public company business, including fund raising, mergers and acquisitions, disposals and investor relations, with City firms including Granville Davies Limited, Dresdner Kleinwort Limited, Brown Shipley Limited and Daniel Stewart. Ruari qualified as a chartered accountant and subsequently joined the corporate finance group at KPMG.

Sebastian Wykeham - Executive Director

Sebastian started his City career in July 1996 with Singer & Friedlander Investment Management Limited (“Singer & Friedlander”) as a fund manager in their UK small cap team. The portfolio of funds managed by the team included the headline Singer & Friedlander small cap fund, 3 VCT funds, various EIS funds and other small cap mandates. He left Singer & Friedlander in September 2003 and joined Daniel Stewart’s small cap broking team where he was instrumental in developing important institutional contacts and in raising funds for corporate clients.

Barry Hocken - Executive Director

Barry began his career in the City in 1960 when he joined the stock jobbing firm of Smith Brothers Limited as a “Blue Button” on the floor of the London Stock Exchange. He then went on to become a market maker with Smith New Court before joining JP Jenkins Limited in 1993 where he firstly established Newstrack Limited, an online small cap data and announcement service, before becoming one of the founders of OFEX (now PLUS) in 1995. Barry joined St Helen’s Capital in 2004 to develop its PLUS client base. 

Howard Flight - Non Executive Director

Howard has worked for 35 years in the financial services industry, for amongst others, N M Rothschild & Sons Limited and HSBC’s merchant bank in Hong Kong and India.  In 1979 he established what became in 1986 Guinness Flight Global Asset Management. Between 1997 and 2005 he was the MP for Arundel & South Downs, during which time he held the Opposition Front Bench briefs of Shadow Economic Secretary, Postmaster General and Chief Secretary to the Treasury. From 1999 to 2004 he had Shadow Treasury responsibilities for the Financial Services Industry, Financial Regulations and Pensions. Currently, Howard is a director of Investec Asset Management Limited, Chairman of CIM Investment Management Limited, Speymill Property Managers Limited and the Loudwater Trust Limited. Howard is also a commissioner of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and a director of a number of other financial services companies.

Jon Pither - Non Executive Director

Jon has considerable experience of public and private companies. For 20 years, from 1969, he developed Amari Plc, an international group of engineering companies, acquired by Glynwed International Plc in 1988. Subsequently, he has developed a range of corporate interests, including the Chairmanship of Active Capital Trust Plc, and a number of other public and private companies, including AIM listed Northern Bear Plc. He is also Deputy Chairman of The Alumasc Group plc and Jourdan Plc.