Cairneagle People Rupert Barclay Rupert Barclay is Cairneagle’s Managing Partner. His strategic advisory career spans twenty-five years working in consulting and in industry. He spent ten years at LEK Consulting, the last five as a partner, working on a wide variety of strategy and M&A assignments in various industries. He followed this with spells as Head of Strategy and M&A at two top 50 UK companies, Allied Domecq and Reuters. In the former he led the aborted attempt to merge Allied with Seagram, and at Reuters he was responsible for floating its subsidiary Instinet on Nasdaq. In 2003 he joined forces with former colleagues to build Cairneagle. He specialises in corporate and business unit strategy and M&A and focuses on the intersection of media, information and financial services businesses. He also looks after the firm’s clients in the consumer and leisure industries. He is on the board of two quoted companies, Dimension Data plc and Lowland Investment Company, and a number of private companies. He has an MA in Classics from Cambridge, an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.   Matt Cooksley Matt Cooksley is a Partner at Cairneagle, having joined the company in 2004. Alongside strategy consulting, where he focuses on business development and new commercial opportunities, Matt is responsible for Cairneagle’s venturing and corporate finance activities. Having graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a degree in engineering, he spent the first 5 years of his career as a consultant with Corporate Value Associates, a Paris-headquartered strategy consulting firm. Thereafter, Matt spent 3 years at Cazenove as an equity analyst covering the European telecoms and technology sectors and advising Cazenove’s Private Equity team on telecoms equipment deals. As well as having deep expertise within the technology and telecoms industries, Matt has spent a significant proportion of his time over the last four years on engagements in the carbon and clean technology, business information and healthcare sectors. He has a diploma from the Securities Institute in investment analysis, accounting and compliance.   Ian Koxvold Ian Koxvold is a Partner and Member of Cairneagle Associates LLP. Over the last 10 years as a strategic and change management consultant he has helped clients in a wide range of sectors to develop the information and understanding to make difficult business decisions. His experience includes significant transaction support (providing due diligence support to over a dozen transactions) as well as strategy engagements with the Credo Group and change management with Opera Solutions (formerly Mitchell Madison Group). Ian has a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and is an Associate of the Securities and Investment Institute.   Paul Suter Paul Suter is a Partner at Cairneagle having joined the firm from Sciowa Consulting, the boutique strategic and financial advisory founded by Paul in 2001. Paul has over 20 years experience advising senior management on complex strategic and financial issues. Paul has deep experience in the financial services sector, where he has led over 20 major assignments covering corporate & business unit strategy development and execution, operational development, M&A strategy & execution (including two of the most successful mergers in UK banking history), performance improvement & restructuring and organisational effectiveness. Paul has worked on high priority assignments in most areas of the Financial Services sector, including retail and commercial banking, wholesale / investment banking as well as general insurance and life assurance. Paul has also led significant programmes for Business Services, Automotive, Retail, Healthcare / Pharma, Travel & Leisure, FMCG, Energy, Logistics, Media and Telecoms clients. Paul began his career as an Investment Banker with Morgan Stanley, was a Financial Analyst with Stern Stewart & Co in New York & London, an Engagement Manager with Marakon Associates and a Director in the Financial Services practice of Braxton Associates (the former strategy arm of Deloitte Consulting). Paul continues to work closely with his clients, ranging from multinational corporations to high potential start-ups, early stage ventures and MBOs/MBIs, to generate meaningful insights and help them make the changes necessary to deliver substantial enhancement to long-term shareholder value. Paul has a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from London Business School.   Mark Pearson Mark Pearson is a TMT industry expert with almost twenty years experience, primarily working as a strategy consultant but also with stints in industry at both large corporates and innovative start-ups. He has particular expertise in fixed and mobile telecoms and TV. He has conducted a wide variety of assignments ranging from business unit strategy development through to cross-industry scenario planning and complex company valuations. Mark was a founding member of Cairneagle in 2001 and is now a Senior Associate with the firm. He started his consulting career at LEK and has also worked at Cable & Wireless. He has a degree in Computer Science from Manchester University.   Peter Fenichel Peter Fenichel is a Senior Advisor to Cairneagle Associates. His career spans 35 years in investment banking and capital markets advisory including key strategic work in financial markets technology and product development. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of SecFinex Limited, the leading European electronic marketplace for Stock Borrowing & Lending. Peter’s previous experience includes positions as Chief Executive Officer of Instinet Global Fixed Income Markets, Managing Director, Fixed Income at Barclays de Zoete Webb in the USA, London and Tokyo where he was BZW’s resident Director at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a Director of the Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange, and resident Director of the Osaka Securities Exchange. His investment banking career also included time at Security Pacific Hoare Govett and Bankers Trust International. Mr. Fenichel was educated at the American University, Washington, DC where he received a BA degree in 1973 and The University of London, MA 1975.   Michael Tyler Michael Tyler is a Senior Advisor to Cairneagle Associates. His career spans 36 years as an executive, adviser and board member in high-technology business, especially network industries, with emphasis on telecoms and entertainment distribution media; electric power; and transport. Michael’s experience includes positions as Chairman of Spectrum Strategy Consultants; Managing Director at PHB; and Partner and Executive Committee member at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. At Booz, Allen he led the ”Information Industry“ business serving telecoms, computer, information and entertainment clients. He was co-founder and CEO of CSP International, a US-based firm (acquired by Booz, Allen in 1987) providing management, technical and operational services. Michael was previously a senior manager at BT. Michael’s career also includes board roles at several public companies. He is currently a Director, and Audit Committee chairman, for Kubera Cross-Border Fund (LSE/AIM: KUBC). He was previously a Director of Telecom New Zealand (NYSE: TEL); ALC Communications; and ConNova AB. Michael is an innovator in structured finance and has served as expert for more than $10 billion of lease-financing transactions for high-technology assets. Mr Tyler was educated at Cambridge University (MA in Natural Sciences (Physics) and Economics). He has held research and teaching positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); New York University (Sloan Associate Professor of Technology and Public Policy); and Harvard University.   Michael Williamson Michael Williamson is a Senior Advisor to Cairneagle Associates. He is a seasoned financial professional with over thirty years of experience advising on capital structure, debt and equity finance, financial strategy, financial litigation, M&A, restructuring and valuation. His long and successful track record includes advice to CEOs and Boards of major listed companies and financial institutions on mould-breaking transactions for major listed companies in the UK and Europe. He has extensive senior management experience at major financial institutions including membership of Investment and Commercial Bank Management Boards, and Credit, Risk and Technical committees. He is also a Special Advisor to STJ Advisors, the independent capital markets advisory firm. Mike spent the core of his investment banking career at SGWarburg, ultimately as Global Head of Financing. He was also a member of the Investment Banking Committee, the Credit Committee and the Group Risk Committee. Other leadership positions include at Houlihan Lokey as Co-Head of Financial Advisory in the UK and as Co-Chairman of the Technical Standards Committee for Portfolio Valuation, at Commerzbank Securities as Head of Capital Structuring (including Leveraged Finance), as a member of Executive Committee and of the Universal Board for Corporate and Investment Banking of Commerzbank AG, at Barclays Capital/BZW as Global Head of Corporate Finance, as a member of the Investment Banking Management Committee and Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets and at Deloitte & Touche as Co-Head of the Capital Consulting Group and as a Partner of Corporate Finance. Mike has a first class honours degree in Economics from St. Andrews University and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.