Biographies of Team

Nitin has 20 years investment experience, including senior positions with leading blue chip financial institutions. At Credit Suisse Private Bank, he was Global CIO responsible for all discretionary assets. As CIO of HSBC Asset Management in Hong Kong, he ran a team focused principally on equities, improving performance across both unit trusts and pension funds. Prior to founding Hume, Nitin was one of the founders of PMA Capital, Asia's premier hedge fund, whose funds grew to US$2.5bn at their peak. Nitin read PPE, graduating from Oxford University, he has an MSc in Economics from London University and a Phd. in Finance.

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Before he joined Hume Capital, Stephen was head of Northern Trust Global Investors' active International Equity group. Prior to this he was Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Dryden Capital Management (a division of Prudential-Bache International). He has over 25 years of investment management experience, both as a portfolio manager and a business manager, running global/ European equity portfolios on behalf of a wide variety of clients including both institutional and retail funds. A graduate of the University of St Andrew's with an MA in Economics with International Studies, Stephen is also an Associate (ASIP) of the CFA UK.

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Before joining Hume as an independent Risk Manager, Mark Baker was co-founder of Eriswell Capital, a Multi-Strategy hedge fund. It was here, between 1997 and 2002, he specialised in equity volatility arbitrage before extending his knowledge to cover many other forms of arbitrage including mergers, structural/quantitative pairs, convertible and capital structures. Prior to this he helped build a new equity derivatives business to generate proprietary revenue and provide pricing for exotic customer-driven structures at First Chicago bank. Mark started his career as a currency options analyst at Citibank. He has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of York.

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A Senior Portfolio Manager with over 22 years experience, Stephen was responsible for pan-European and Eurozone accounts at Northern Trust whilst co-lead with Stephen Dowds on the International Growth Fund. Before that he was a Director at Framlington Investment Management where he was in charge of building-out the firm's European funds, and from 1995, the emerging market funds in Eastern Europe, as well as winning numerous new client accounts. His specialist knowledge as portfolio manager includes the industrials, energy, materials and oil sectors. Stephen has a BA Hons degree in Politics from Durham University.

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Bryan Bazin, Director of Investment, has over 23 years experience of running conservative fixed income portfolios for insurance companies and Lloyd's syndicates. He was Senior Investment Manager with Whittingdale Limited before joining JR Butler Investment Management as Managing Director. He remained a Director with its successor, Apsley Investment Management, where he was jointly responsible for all investment policy and the management of £1.6 billion. Prior to joining EPAM (EPIC Asset Management ) Mr Bazin established a UK investment dealing desk for City Capital Counselling UK. He has a masters degree in Economics.

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Darren Sadek is Director of Operations and Compliance. He is a co-founder of EPIC Investment Partners. He was previously with Benfield Greig Asset Management and before that with Barclays Global Investors and Kemper (Zurich) Investment Management where he was an Assistant Vice President responsible for the supervision of fixed income and equity settlement and client service. He has over 25 years experience in the industry.

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Nigel Davies, Director, joined EPAM (EPIC Asset Management )  in December 2008, having held similar posts at Singer & Friedlander Investment Management and Tilney Fund Management. Throughout his career Nigel has specialised in all aspects of treasury business with particular emphasis on the UK and European bond markets. He has managed fixed income and short-term liquidity portfolios for major institutions and advises a large number of building societies on their liquid assets.

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Emma Butler, Fund Manager, has a BSc honours degree in Economics and is also a Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. She has extensive knowledge of the institutional sector, specialising in the management of fixed income and money market securities on behalf of such bodies as universities, building societies, friendly societies and local authorities. Emma joined EPAM (EPIC Asset Management )  in January 2009 to enhance their institutional business, having fulfilled similar roles at Tilney Fund Management and Singer & Friedlander Investment Management.

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Prior to joining Hume, Josh also formed part of the former Northern Trust team, starting his career there in 1997 as a management accountant in the Financial Control department. In 2002 he then moved to the International Equities team as an analyst and Portfolio Manager. His specialist fields are technology, telecoms and the growing businesses of renewable energy, power and water. Josh has a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London and is a CFA Charterholder.

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Before joining Hume Capital, Charlie was Portfolio Manager for the European Credit Opportunities Fund at PMA Investment Advisers, managing a credit hedge fund with a geographic mandate spanning developed and emerging Europe. Charlie has fourteen years’ experience in fixed income and credit markets, with previous roles encompassing credit research (high yield and investment grade) at Bear Stearns and Royal Bank of Canada; leveraged finance origination, structuring and syndication at ABN AMRO; and audit, business assurance and transaction services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A graduate of Strathclyde University in Glasgow with an Honours degree in Law and post-graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Charlie is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

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Victoria Oakley is an Assistant Fund Manager. Victoria comes from a banking background and started her career at Singer & Friedlander Limited. Here she was responsible for raising liquidity on behalf of the bank from a range of sources, including charities, local authorities, universities and pension funds. From here she went on to join the Corporate FX and Derivatives sales team at Investec Bank and then joined EPAM (EPIC Asset Management )  in May 2009. The move to EPAM is a change of direction for Victoria and as such she has recently passed the IMC qualification (Investment Management Certificate).

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Ranil is a risk and regulatory compliance consultant. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry working with Barclays Bank, Citibank, and the financial services consulting practices of Price Waterhouse and then Touche Ross. His experience includes marketing planning, product development, risk management and business systems implementation for both wholesale and retail financial businesses as well as exchanges and clearing organisations. Immediately prior to launching his risk and compliance business, Ranil spent seven years at the Financial Services Authority where he worked in Supervision and then in Policy.

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Phil Riches is a Portfolio Administrator with over 20 years experience in the Fund Management industry. Before EPIC he supervised the Operations team at Cigna Investment Management which he joined from the settlements department of JP Morgan Chase Bank. There he was responsible for Fixed income and Equity trade settlements. Previously he worked for a UK Stockbroker. Phil holds the FSA Investment Management Certificate.

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Rob Steele is a Portfolio Administrator. He has over 20 years experience in the industry. Before EPIC he worked for Threadneedle Asset Management, which he joined from Zurich Investment Management. Previously he worked for an investment management company and a stockbroker which were both based in Edinburgh. Rob holds the UKSIP Investment Management Certificate.

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Viji Thambyrajah, Operations Manager has over 20 years of experience in investment administration. She joined EPIC from New Flag Asset Management. Viji previously worked at Kemper (Zurich) Investment Management. She holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Wales, Cardiff.

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