Management Team

Nicola Horlick, Chief Executive

Nicola has been a leading fund manager in the City of London for over twenty-eight years.
During that time, she has set up and managed a number of investment businesses.

Nicola was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and began her career in the City in 1983 when she joined SG Warburg, which was then one of the leading merchant banks. She worked in the investment department, which eventually became Mercury Asset Management, and was appointed a director in 1989. In 1991, she moved to Morgan Grenfell Asset Management (the UK institutional and private-client business) in 1992. During her time in this role, assets under management increased from £4 billion to £22.5 billion. In 1997, Nicola set up SG Asset Management (UK) for the French Bank Société Générale with Keith Percy, with whom she had worked at Morgan Grenfell. Their target of raising £5 billion within five years was achieved in two years, and funds under management reached £7 billion a year later. In 2004, Nicola set up Bramdean Asset Management  LLP with Sir Derek Higgs. The company ran a number of alternative investment mandates and the fund-of-funds business was sold to Aberdeen Asset Management at the end of 2009. Nicola is also the chairman of Rockpool Investments LLP.

Rachel Geen, Development Director


Rachel has worked in the investment management industry for over 12 years, with a primary focus on the media sector. Her experience covers quoted equities, private equity and intellectual property investments as well as a range of alternative assets. 
She has designed and structured specialist funds investing in film and other industries.
   
Rachel joined SG Asset Management (UK) in 1999 having gained a degree in History at Cambridge University and she worked with Nicola Horlick in the UK equity team. Rachel joined Bramdean Asset Management LLP in 2005 and initially co-managed a Dublin-based unit trust which invested in UK-quoted shares, before moving into alternative investments. Rachel was instrumental in launching Resonant Music I LP, a film music copyright fund and served on the fund's Advisory Committee.  Rachel is a CFA Charterholder.