People
Cameron Barney brings the talent and experience from being directors of global investment banks to serve fast growing infra-tech companies. We have a wealth of expertise across all types of transactions in multiple geographies and across the entire life cycle of a business.
Charles Cameron
Partner
Partner
Charles has advised public and private company boards and entrepreneurs for over 30 years at Cameron Barney and previously as a director at Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Kleinwort Benson, working in London, New York and Tokyo.
In 2002 he was appointed CEO of the quoted cloud and on-site data storage provider InTechnology plc; in 2008 he co-founded Encore Ventures which acquired and managed a portfolio of private equity interests from 3i; and within Cameron Barney he sits on the Investment Committee of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Partnership.
Connect:
charles@cameronbarney.com
Eleanor Doody
Vice President
Vice President
Eleanor has over 15 years of investment banking experience. She was a Director at Citigroup and spent 5 years at Goldman Sachs in its equity research and investment banking divisions. Eleanor joined Cameron Barney in 2016 as part of their Women Returners program following time-out from the industry to focus on her young family.
Connect:
eleanor@cameronbarney.com
Dr Steve Fawkes
Partner
Partner
Steve has over 30 years experience at the intersection of sustainable energy and finance. He founded EnergyPro which has executed more than £60m of investment in the UK on behalf of its JV with EESL from India. He has been an NED for private and public companies and sits on the Investment Committee of the London Energy Efficiency Fund. He has published extensively on energy and sustainable finance and received awards from the Energy Institute, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and the India Business Group.
Connect:
steven@cameronbarney.com
Vitor Giesteira
Analyst
Analyst
Prior to joining Cameron Barney, Vitor was an intern with Oxford Capital where he assisted on transactions within the energy infrastructure sectors. He holds a Master of Science in Management and Finance from The London School of Economics and is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Connect:
vitor@cameronbarney.com
Matthew Hindhaugh
Partner
Partner
Matthew has 30 years of corporate finance experience. After qualifying as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, Matthew worked at Morgan Grenfell, then Deutsche Bank, leading deals in a wide variety of areas including structured finance, IPOs and M&A. After a period working as CFO of a small retail business he returned to corporate finance. As well as working on corporate fund raising he has developed a growing practice in fund raising for private equity and other alternative Asset Managers. He has strong relationships with a wide range of institutional investors and family offices.
Connect:
matthew@cameronbarney.com
Sam Keanly
Analyst
Analyst
Prior to joining Cameron Barney, Sam interned at PKF Francis Clark and Porta Wealth Management. He holds a BSc in Mathematics with Finance from the University of Exeter and a Masters in Finance from UCL.
Connect:
sam@cameronbarney.com
Peter Norris
Partner
Partner
Peter is an international investment banker who has advised corporates, private equity, governments and charities across a range of complex transactions. His early career was with Kleinwort Benson and HSBC Investment Bank and he later became Head of European M&A at Bank of America. Peter has advised on IPOs and other public and private financings, privatisations, and a variety of buy and sell side mandates.
Connect:
peter@cameronbarney.com
Brian Robertson
Partner
Partner
Brian has over 30 years of investment banking experience, having worked in the City since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1985. For much of that time, he has specialised in the communications sector, working in financing and M&A in all the major development phases of the industry: including cable TV, Mobile communications, fixed-line liberalisation and, more recently, FTTH rollout, where he has helped raise finance for a series of UK operators. Brian is also actively involved in Cameron Barney's investment management activities and is Chairman of Wightfibre Limited.
Connect:
brian@cameronbarney.com
Mike Tivey
Partner
Partner
Mike has 25 years of commercial and corporate experience in the property, energy and construction sectors. His career has spanned start-up and early-stage businesses through to the large corporate arena; having worked at executive board and divisional level for a FTSE250 outsourcing and energy services company.
An entrepreneur who has experienced the fulfilment of investing, driving the development of and ultimately selling the energy services and infrastructure business he co-founded. Raising capital for organisations or projects has been a constant in Mike’s career with a particular focus on investments that generate measurable social and environmental, as well as financial returns.
Connect:
mike@cameronbarney.com
Mark Vargo
Strategic Advisor
Strategic Advisor
Mark J. Vargo is a recognized business leader with 30+ years of experience in scaling, optimizing and transforming the commercial and operational activities of large and small high technology companies. His executive experience spans hardware, software and services businesses in Europe and North America, including leadership roles at EMC, IBM and Akamai.
As a Strategic Adviser within Cameron Barney Mark brings an additional commercial focus to support Cameron Barney’s clients in optimising their performance and strengthening their commercial processes when approaching a liquidity event and when raising capital. This is particularly the case in the context of digital infrastructure and services companies.
Mark is based in London and serves as a non-executive director on a number of technology-centric companies.
Connect:
mark@cameronbarney.com
Andrew Webster
Partner
Partner
Andrew was previously the co-founder of Boost & Co, a UK-based debt fund, providing debt to high-growth technology-centric SMEs. He has worked in the SME debt funding community for over 25+ years including structured finance, leasing, asset and venture finance.
Connect:
andrew@cameronbarney.com
Jack Welsher-Forsyth
Vice President
Vice President
Jack has been involved in the advisory and investment industry for more than 5 years, joining Cameron Barney in 2017. His career began at Clearance Capital, a London-based specialist pan-European real estate investor operating in the public and private markets, where he supported both investment and operating activities. Prior to this, Jack graduated in Economics from Nottingham Business School, has since completed the IMC and is a part-qualified Chartered Accountant.
Connect:
jack@cameronbarney.com