The Directors
David Tallboys
David Tallboys graduated from the
London School of Economics (LSE)
with a degree in Economics and International Relations. He
also gained a Masters degree in Business Analysis
after which he worked with Price Waterhouse in
London
for two years before going to Bahrain
with Ernst & Young. This was followed by two years in South
America working mostly in Rio de
Janeiro
for Brazilian Investment Advisory Services with whom he structured the
first management buyout in
Brazil.
He joined
Kleinwort Benson in
London
working with its corporate banking group involved in lending to
management buy-outs and then moved into private equity at Schroder
Ventures where he was involved in structuring large buy-outs for both
quoted and unquoted companies. Later he started working for Security
Pacific Hoare Govett
Equity Ventures and was involved in extensive re-negotiations and
assessment of new deals on its behalf prior to Equity Ventures doing
its own buy-out since when it has been independent.
Robert Lindemann
Robert graduated from Oxford
with an Honours degree in Politics Philosophy and Economics, he then worked
for the First National Bank of Boston
in London
before attending INSEAD. He worked as a management consultant with
Ernst & Young and subsequently advising
industrial companies.
After
spending two years with the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Security
Pacific Bank he moved to Hoare
Govett having worked on the acquisition by
Security Pacific of a stake in Hoare
Govett, He was Senior Vice
President of Hoare
Govett Incorporated, latterly with
specific responsibility for Europe; and was instrumental in forming
Security Pacific Hoare
Govett Equity Ventures which he joined as
a Director, and was directly involved in all its investment
activity before arranging the buy-out of Equity Ventures Ltd.
Robert was a board member of the
publicly quoted and very successful British Smaller Companies VCT as
the Equity Ventures nominee.