Our Team

Patrick has over 40 years’ experience in finance and investment and has worked in both the UK and internationally.

He founded Stanford Capital Partners in 2018, with the aim of establishing a specialist investment advisory and broking firm that placed client interests at the heart of the business, avoiding the potential conflicts of interest that can arise in the investment banking industry.

He was previously Chief Executive Officer at Northland Capital Partner, the investment banking boutique, which he led from 2014, and before that headed Merchant Securities. He grew Merchant Securities’ corporate advisory and broking services and its wealth management operations to £800 million of client assets, and subsequently led its successful sale to Sanlam, the South African bank.

In his earlier career, he was Chief Executive Officer of E*TRADE Securities UK Limited, and Head of Global Brokerage at TIR Securities, based in Asia.

With more than 35 years’ experience in UK equity capital markets, John brings a wealth of knowledge and Institutional relationships to Stanford Capital Partners. John has extensive experience in the UK equity capital markets building an established reputation in the small and mid-cap sectors, holding previous positions as Partner with Matrix Corporate Capital and senior positions at Seymour Pierce, Panmure Gordon and Northland Capital.

With more than 40 years’ experience in UK equity capital markets, Bob brings a wealth of knowledge and Institutional relationships to Stanford Capital Partners, and our clients. Nearly half of Bob’s career to date was at Investec Securities where he was instrumental in building a very strong UK Equity sales presence. Bob has extensive UK Institutional relationships with Small, Mid and Large cap fund managers.

Tom has more than 30 years’ experience in corporate finance, advising quoted growth companies across a broad range of industry sectors on their capital raising requirements, M&A, governance and investor relations. Prior to joining Stanford, he was at Evolution Securities, its predecessor Beeson Gregory and then Arden Partners PLC. He is also a non-executive director of Glantus Holdings plc, treasurer and arts adviser to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, and a trustee of the Braintree Museum Trust.

Roy founded and built Ruffler Bank PLC, which became the first UK Bank to be bought by private equity in 2009. He has also been involved in the establishment and growth of other businesses, principally in the leisure and property sectors, and is a director of a number of companies.

Mike has over 35 years’ experience as a tech and media equity analyst, initially for nine years in Japan with WI Carr, SBCI and latterly Baring Securities where he was No.1 rated for four years, and subsequently as head of EMEA and Western Europe telecoms research for Barings and ING Wholesale Banking For the past decade he has been focused on AIM tech, and was Starmine rated No 1 for tech in the UK.