Jonathan Bell - Chief Investment Officer

Jonathan has over 22 years' experience in fund management, asset allocation and manager selection. Jonathan was formerly Chief Investment Officer of Newton Private Investment Management and a member of Newton's Executive Management committee, overall investment committee and strategy group responsible for the $37 billion under management. Previously he was Senior Investment Manager of Principal Investment Management (formerly a subsidiary of PPP Healthcare) and Assistant Director of BZW Portfolio Management.

A Fellow of the Securities Institute, Jonathan received his MBA from Cranfield School of Management and holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics. Jonathan is the author of 'Start With The Map The Right Way Up', an introduction to investment, and of numerous investment related articles.

Tarek AbuZayyad - Partner, Client Advisory & Merchant Banking 

Tarek is a Partner at Stanhope Capital, and has over 15 years experience in M&A, private equity/venture capital and asset management for high net worth families. Formerly Managing Director at Berggruen Holdings, a family office / private equity firm, and Director in  M&A / Corporate Finance at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and London.

Tarek is currently a director of Lorne Stewart plc, SNS Holdings Ltd and Blossom M&C Ltd. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Tarek holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB Economics from Stanford University.

Ivo Coulson - Partner, Head of Portfolio Management 

Ivo has over 25 years of experience in investment management. He is a Partner and head of portfolio management at Stanhope Capital. 

Ivo was formerly a partner at Tiburon Partners, a specialist equity management group, after successfully organising the sale of his family company to a listed plc. Between 1994 and 2002 he was at SG Warburg, as head of the investments funds broking desk, and was voted no. 1 in his field in the Extel survey. Previously Ivo was at BZW where he managed UK equity portfolios.

Ivo graduated from Cambridge university in 1985 with an MA in law. He is a Fellow of the CISI and has served on the Board of several Private and Public listed companies.

James Hordern - Partner, Head of Research
 
James  is  responsible  for  research  and  manager  selection  within Stanhope's Investment Department. He has over 20 years of experience
in investment management. He was formerly a main board  Director at
Dalton Strategic Partners. James began his career at Mercury Asset Management before moving to head up the European, EAFE and Global Specialist Strategies at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

James is a member of the Investment Advisory Panel of the Royal College of Physicians, a Director of the Salters' Management Company and a Director of the Corporate Trustee Company of South Kensington Estates.

He graduated from Durham University in 1990 with a B.A. Hons degree in Modern Languages and is an Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals. He is also an Associate of the CFA Society of the UK.

Guy Paterson - Partner, Client Advisory 
 
Guy has twenty five years experience of the financial markets. He is a partner in the Client Advisory Team. He headed the client advisory practices of Guinness Mahon and Granville Baird from 1996 to 2001 and then ran the London operation of Unigestion Family Investment Office from 2001 to 2010. He specialises in advising families and trusts on the design and implementation of investment policy.

Guy qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat Marwick Mitchell before spending ten years in corporate finance. He was subsequently chief executive of Linguaphone Group plc, an international language publisher, before returning to investment markets.

He graduated with an MA in History from Oxford University.



 

Jean-Marc Choblet - Senior Director, Client Advisory 

Jean-Marc is a Senior Director in the Client Advisory team and has over 10 years experience in wealth management, advising high net worth families in Europe. He was formerly a Vice President at JP Morgan where he spent 13 years in Paris and London.

Jean-Marc Choblet holds a Master in Economics and Finance from University of Lyon in France. 

Naveed Chaudhry - Senior Director, Investment Management

Naveed is a Senior Director in the Investment Management team and has over 15 years experience in the wealth management industry. He was formerly at Duemme Capital (Banca Esperia) where he was leading research for hedge fund investments. Prior to that Naveed was a senior member of the fund of hedge funds team at Schroders and spent 9 years at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch mainly as an investment manager in the fixed income team.

Naveed is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a BSc in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School. 

Clare Turner - Joint Chief Operating Officer

Clare has over 20 years of Client Services experience. She is responsible for Operations, Finance and HR. She was formerly Director of Rupert Loewenstein Ltd, business managers to the Rolling Stones, where she was responsible for the client relationship. She was also CFO of the firm.

Clare is a Chartered Accountant (Ernst & Young) and holds a BSc. Environmental & Evolutionary Biology (University of Liverpool).

Rupert Mahon - Joint Chief Operating Officer
 
Rupert is responsible for operational due diligence, legal & compliance affairs and for general fund/investment administration and custody. Rupert qualified as a lawyer in 1999 and has 14 years experience in law and investment management. Rupert joined Stanhope Capital in 2009 from Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP, where he was a partner and member of the management comittee with responsibility for a variety of matters including the above. Rupert has also been a partner in a small firm (which he jointly founded) specialising in bespoke investment products for clients, working in conjunction with various private banks and has practiced as a lawyer with experience in financial services and corporate law.

Rupert obtained his law degree in 1995 (University of Wales) and qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales) in 1999.

 

Nicole Curti - Managing Director, Stanhope Capital Switzerland

Nicole is in charge of the Swiss office of Stanhope Capital. She was formerly a Vice-President at Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch in Geneva, where she worked for 10 years in various departments (Key Client Team, Global Custody and Institutional Clients).

Nicole received her MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and obtained her BA in Political Science from the University of Lausanne.