Meet The BwB Team
Angus Forbes
Chairman / Board
Angus worked in the City for 20 years, at James Capel, Smith New Court / Merrill Lynch and GLG Partnersrespectively. After leaving GLG he became the first Director of the Prince's Rainforest Project.
William Watts
Managing Director
William had a long career in traditional money and bond markets in the UK, US and European Rabobank. He became Head of Solar Lending then took a placement in Rwanda for Rabo Development as a special advisor for Banque Populaire du Rwanda.
Flona Melrose
Managing Director
Fiona spent over 20 years in equity research analysing financial services and heading up bank equity research teams. She then moved into strategic roles at banks and was head of strategy for UBS Investment Bank.
Sarah Powell
Executive Director
Sarah is a finance industry supervisory analyst and editor, with an extensive knowledge of compliance in global equities research.
Julien Roques
Executive Director
Julien worked at Santander as vice president in their investment banking division based in Paris.
Jade Bouhmouch
Vice President
JJade helps set financial and business strategy at Google UK. He was previously a senior analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in San Francisco.
Emre Eren
Analyst
Emra previously worked with PwC in corporate finance department, Insurance broker at ESL insurance, Head of marketing at Smart Accident Claims, Sales role in Barcelona.
Rupesh Madlani
CEO / Board
Rupesh spent a decade at Lehman Brothers and Barclays in equity research in sustainability and clean technology, ranking first in the Institutional Investor survey.
Arindam Basu
Managing Director
Arindam is a seasoned financial analyst with over eight years of experience in Equity Research at Lehman Brothers and Barclays.
Philip Mitchell
Managing Director
Philip is based in Stockholm and spent the past 5 years as a Global portfolio manager for the Swedish pension fund AP1.
Alexander Wiese
Executive Director
Alexander is based in Zurich and has close to 15 years of experience in sales and structuring of cross asset solutions for institutional clients based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Marc-Alexander Pohl
Executive Director
Alexander is a Director in HSBC’s Client Network Banking team which helps large customers solve supply chain challenges using banking products and services.
Yang Zhou
Vice President
Yang has over 12 years of professional experience in various advisory and asset management roles, including private equity fund management, investment banking, financial advisory, business compliance, and legal service.
Chris Smith
Managing Director
Chris worked in the City of London for 15 years up to 2009 where his last role was Head of Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered.
Rufus Grantham
Managing Director
Rufus has close to 20+ years of experience in investment research and advisory. He is currently the Director / Owner at Blood & Sands Ltd.
Andrew Hughes
Managing Director
Andrew worked in the City of London as a sell side analyst for 35 years, covering the Retail sector. He was latterly a MD and team head at UBS, and formerly worked at Nomura and Hoare Govett.
Sonal Biyani
Executive Director
Sonal has over 12 years of experience in capital markets, fund raising (IPO, PE) and Mergers & Acquisitions in India. She has previously worked as an Investment Banker.
Biraj Borkhataria
Executive Director
Biraj is Co-head European Energy Research at RBC Capital Markets. Biraj has spent a decade in equity research, the majority of which has been covering large integrated energy companies.
Kailash Ligade
Vice President
Kailash has over 12 years of Equity Research and Investment Banking experience. He has worked with some of the leading sell-side and buy-side firms such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Al Rajhi United, PE Plus Capital Advisors, India Bulls and India Infoline.