Corporate Finance Boutique
Corporate Finance Boutique
Masters Of Finance
What We Do
Masters Of Finance
What We Do
Meet Our CEO
Meet Our CEO
Ross Andrews
CEO, Guild Financial Advisory
Ross is an experienced and well connected investment banker who has provided corporate finance advisory services to companies for more than three decades. He has established long term relationships and held senior roles at a number of investment banks, including Zeus Capital where he was a main board director, most latterly as Head of PLC Advisory during the period that saw the company emerge as a challenger investment bank. Ross has worked with numerous public and private companies, helping them achieve their ambitions across a range of sectors and geographies, not just in the UK but also overseas. He is a Non-Executive Director of a number of public companies.
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Ross Andrews
CEO, Guild Financial Advisory
Ross is an experienced and well connected investment banker who has provided corporate finance advisory services to companies for more than three decades. He has established long term relationships and held senior roles at a number of investment banks, including Zeus Capital where he was a main board director, most latterly as Head of PLC Advisory during the period that saw the company emerge as a challenger investment bank. Ross has worked with numerous public and private companies, helping them achieve their ambitions across a range of sectors and geographies, not just in the UK but also overseas. He is a Non-Executive Director of a number of public companies.
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Meet Our Consultants
Meet Our Consultants
John Bridges
Consultant
Sixty years in the City have not dimmed his interest in helping fast-growing businesses. ‘Not a bit of it’, says Bridges. ‘Now, more than ever before, entrepreneurs whose Companies have above average growth prospects, need help through the maze, which is the City of London. I am proud to be part of a team, which has been brought together to provide that help with experienced advice in the field of flotations, acquisitions and fundraising’.
With experience ranging through Barclays Bank, Merrill Lynch and a number of boutiques at Partner and CEO level, also serving as a Committee Member of the Compliance Forum at CISI, John's City activities are regulated by the FCA and in Dublin by the Central Bank of Ireland. As Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Wey Education PLC, he is also available for other NED positions when a need is identified. John holds a senior management function within Guild.
John Bridges
Consultant
Sixty years in the City have not dimmed his interest in helping fast-growing businesses. ‘Not a bit of it’, says Bridges. ‘Now, more than ever before, entrepreneurs whose Companies have above average growth prospects, need help through the maze, which is the City of London. I am proud to be part of a team, which has been brought together to provide that help with experienced advice in the field of flotations, acquisitions and fundraising’.
With experience ranging through Barclays Bank, Merrill Lynch and a number of boutiques at Partner and CEO level, also serving as a Committee Member of the Compliance Forum at CISI, John's City activities are regulated by the FCA and in Dublin by the Central Bank of Ireland. As Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at Wey Education PLC, he is also available for other NED positions when a need is identified. John holds a senior management function within Guild.
Leo Godsall
Consultant
Leo has over 20 years in lead advisory corporate finance and corporate strategic development. His career so far has been equally split across Equity Capital Markets, Private Equity Investments and M&A.
He has specific experience of working within the SME sector, small-cap and mid-cap market, advising and assisting companies with their strategic and commercial development. Leo has successfully advised both quoted and private companies, leading specific corporate transactions, including funding exercises, IPOs, strategic acquisitions, shareholder and investor exits, corporate mergers and post acquisition integration. He also advises investment vehicles on investment selection, post investment change and exit.
Leo has also been a PLC and private company board director in financial services, media, and technology companies.
Tomas Klaassen
Associate Director
Tomas is an ACCA Qualified Accountant with over 7 years experience in Finance and joined Guild in April 2023 from Burgess where he worked as a Management Accountant in the yacht management department. This role involved overseeing the finance function and managing client relations with a number of family offices for high net worth individuals. Prior to this, he trained and qualified at accountancy practice Jeffreys Henry LLP.
Evangeline Klaassen
Associate Director
Evangeline joined Guild’s Corporate Finance team in 2021. Prior to this, Evangeline worked at Jeffreys Henry LLP where she gained her Chartered Accountant qualification and worked as an auditor largely dealing with AIM quoted companies. Evangeline graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a first class honours in International Finance and Investment.
Compliance Officer
Compliance Officer
Brendan Langheim
Compliance Officer
Brendan started his career in 2004 at KPMG South Africa in audit within the Industrial and Automotive Business Unit where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 2007. Since relocating to the United Kingdom in 2008, Brendan has held senior roles in Finance, Risk and Compliance within FTSE listed Energy and Financial Services companies including Centrica Plc, Close Brothers Plc and Barclays Plc. He specialises in Finance, Risk and Compliance Reporting and Analytics.
Brendan Langheim
Compliance Officer
Brendan started his career in 2004 at KPMG South Africa in audit within the Industrial and Automotive Business Unit where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 2007. Since relocating to the United Kingdom in 2008, Brendan has held senior roles in Finance, Risk and Compliance within FTSE listed Energy and Financial Services companies including Centrica Plc, Close Brothers Plc and Barclays Plc. He specialises in Finance, Risk and Compliance Reporting and Analytics.
