Charlie Cottam
Since 1995 Charlie was an equity analyst focused mainly on the Support Services sector at stockbrokers Panmure Gordon from 2002 and where he was head of the team, and before that Cazenove & Co. He has been the analyst on 33 companies where his firm was the corporate broker. In 1996 he was awarded the Reuters Award for Investment Analysis, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1994. In 1991 he graduated from Durham University with a degree in Economics and Politics.

Rob Murphy
Rob acts in an advisory capacity to the fund. He is currently at Gladstone Capital Management LLP, having been Manager of GLG Financials Fund from 2003 to 2007. From July 2007 to December 2007 he was a portfolio manager at Merebis, and from 1999 to 2003 was at Gartmore Investment Management. From 1991 to 1999 he was an analyst at JP Morgan Investment Management. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated from the University of Birmingham with a Masters degree in Money, Banking and Finance in 1989.