Cappellazzo is one of the art world’s true powerhouses. She left her role as head of contemporary art at Christie’s, where she was for thirteen years, to set up the private consulting firm Art Agency, Partners, only to be bought… Read More
JONATHAN HORWICH
PHILLIPS
Unsure if he’s the ‘old new boy or the new old boy’ at Phillip’s, the auction house’s new 20th-Century and Contemporary Art chief specialist Horwich says he has ‘slotted straight into the role’. ‘There’s a lot of very positive energy… Read More
Vanessa Curry
Fine Art Source
‘I never wanted to work in a gallery day-to-day because what I really wanted was that one-to-one time with collectors, working in their homes,’ Curry says. Her favourite moment is when the art piece she had helped her clients source,… Read More
IMPERIAL BLUE FINANCE
The niche finance house on Brook Street was founded by Tom Harries and his brother James, utilising decades of financial experience within the family. Imperial Blue lends sums from £10,000 to over £100 million, having financed projects in excess of… Read More
Ronak Ruparell & Vivek Jeswani
BridgeInvest
Trust is a vital metric between any investor and investee – but it certainly calms the nerves when there’s an alignment of interests. Bridge Invest proudly counts itself as one where such synergy happens naturally: ‘We wouldn’t offer our clients… Read More
BILL SHIPTON
Bold & Reeves
Started four years ago by Bill Shipton after he tired of finding an exacting and professional property management firm to look after seven London properties owned by a Saudi family office, Bold and Reeves was born with the mantra that… Read More
CHRIS MATTHEWS
RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Matthews might have stumbled upon the wealth management industry ‘completely by accident’, but he describes the diversion from his initial interest in the hospitality business as a happy coincidence. His preconception of the private banking world as a ‘number-crunching’ landscape… Read More
IAN RYAN
HOWARD KENNEDY
A respected trials and investigations lawyer with over two decades’ experience, the head of criminal law at Howard Kennedy founded the department from scratch in 2008 as its first and then only lawyer. Today he runs a legal powerhouse of… Read More
STEPHEN PARKINSON
KINGSLEY NAPLEY
A former high-ranking civil servant and senior prosecutor, Parkinson has been looking after politicians and high-profile individuals in spiky situations for most of his career, from Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Michael Heseltine to Rebecca Brooks, Tony Blair and former… Read More
HUSSEIN KANJI
Hoxton Ventures
‘Necessity,’ says Kanji, Hoxton Ventures’ co-founder and partner, when asked about how the idea of the company came about. ‘After leaving Accel Partners, no venture fund would hire me — accept from California funds who insisted I move back —… Read More