Greg Swenson
is our founding Senior Partner. He brings 25 years of capital markets experience on Wall Street to Brigg Macadam. He spent over a decade at Lehman Brothers. At HSBC he was Head of North American Middle Market Sales in Global Banking and Markets. Most recently he was President of Agincourt Ltd, a fixed income specialist investment bank based in Bermuda. He holds a BSc in Accounting from Boston College and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University. He is a frequent guest commentator on BBC and Sky News.
Tim Murray
is our founding Managing Partner. He has advised clients extensively across the emerging markets, especially in Africa. He headed international telecoms investment banking teams at BZW, Schroders and Société Générale, executing a large number of IPOs and M&A transactions all around the world. He was CEO, and later Chairman, of Libertas, an AIM nomad and broker specialising in energy and high growth markets. He founded Macadam, the predecessor to Brigg Macadam, in 2003. He holds an MA (Cantab) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and an MBA (with distinction) from INSEAD in France.
Brett Clark
is our Partner based in Australia and heads Brigg Macadam’s activities in the Asian capital markets. He has over 25 years’ experience in the mining and energy sectors in funding, operations and advisory, with Rio Tinto Iron Ore, WMC Resources Limited, Iron Ore Company of Canada, and subsequently with Ernst and Young, Tethyan Copper Company Pty Ltd, Barrick Gold and Antofagasta PLC, Oakajee Port and Rail, Mitsubishi Development and Murchison Metals. He has also worked as an investment banker in the US and Asian capital markets, encompassing middle markets and structured debt, equity and mezzanine transactions. He holds a BEng from Curtin University in Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma of Business Management and Finance from Deakin University in Victoria.
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Lou Sampanis
has 25 years of experience in the international capital markets where he has advised corporate and financial institutions with respect to capital raising. Working from Bank of America’s New York and London offices he assisted European issuers with accessing the private and public US debt markets.
Subsequently he led a London-based team at Deutsche Bank that worked directly with European issuers and US institutional investors to arrange privately placed long-term bond transactions. Most recently he has specialized in financing for emerging markets companies and investments in corporate international litigation claims. He has a BSc in Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Robert Millbourn
has over fifty years of banking experience, especially focused in the area of family offices. After training in France with Comptoir National D’Escompte de Paris (now BNP Paribas) and in London with M. Samuel (later Hill Samuel), he spent seven years as a director of international trade finance house Tozer, Kemsley and Millbourn in Hamburg and London. He spent five years as CEO of sports marketing firm West Nally Inc in New York. For nearly two decades he was a principal and director of Robert Fraser, in family office placing and as head of corporate finance. For the past two decades he has been a retained consultant to a number of investment banking firms in London, including J.O. Hambro Magan, ABN Amro and Capital Plus Partners.
Martin Schwarzburg
is a Partner at Brigg Macadam. He has more than thirty years of global finance and operational experience in private equity and real estate with a focus on emerging markets. At AIG Global Real Estate he helped to build the AIG/Lincoln Real Estate development platform across Europe and later served as Finance Director for the London-based direct investment business. Subsequently he served as Global COO for the real estate platform of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Most recently he specialised in corporate advisory and financing for emerging market companies. He holds a Masters in Accounting and Finance from Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany, an MBA from Duke University, has completed postgraduate law studies at the University of London and qualified as US CPA.
Anita Schwarzburg
manages investment market research at Brigg Macadam. With more than 25 years of experience in research-driven multinational industrial companies and institutional investors across Europe and the Middle East, Anita’s role at Brigg Macadam is focused on global market research, client management and distribution.
Thilo Hoffmann
has more than fifteen years’ experience as a senior corporate adviser within the renewable energy, clean technology and related industries. His focus has been on fundraising and guiding public and private companies through corporate transactions. He worked for several banks and corporate finance firms including WestLB, Landsbanki, Libertas and EGR Broking. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University, spent some years in cancer research at the Terry Fox Laboratories in Vancouver, Canada and received an MBA in Finance and Management from Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College.
Vanessa Ndakengerwa
is an Associate based in our London office, having spent four years helping our clients in frontier markets. She has lived in more than ten countries including Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Belgium and Ireland. She is fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda. She has been a volunteer for the London Metropolitan Police for the past four years. She holds a BSc in Economics from SOAS University London.