Stuart WiddowsonStuart is the Managing Partner of Odyssean Capital, which he founded in 2017. He has spent the last 17 years investing in public and private UK small and mid-size corporates and a further two years providing investment advice in the same field.
Prior to founding Odyssean he was a Director and fund manager at GVQ Investment Management. In 2009, he became lead fund manager of Strategic Equity Capital plc. Over the following 7 years, was instrumental in driving a turnaround in the performance and fortunes of this closed ended fund. Stuart began his career as a strategy consultant undertaking commercial due diligence and strategy projects for private equity and corporate clients. In 2001 he joined HgCapital and spent five years executing small and mid-cap leveraged buyouts in the UK and Germany, including working on a number of public to private transactions of UK quoted companies. |
Ed WielechowskiEd joined Odyssean in December 2017. Prior to joining Odyssean Ed was a Principal in the Technology team at HgCapital. He joined HgCapital in 2006 and worked on numerous completed deals, including multiple bolt on transactions made by portfolio companies. He has additional quoted market experience having led all aspects of the successful IPO of Manx Telecom plc in 2014 as well as having evaluated and executed public to private transactions.
Ed started his career as an analyst in the UK mergers and acquisitions department of JPMorganCazenove in 2004. |
Kate ReidKate joined Odyssean in September 2017 as Head of Investor Relations. Kate has over 10 years of experience working in financial services, including 3 years at Algebris Investments where she was involved in launching a UCITS version of their flagship fund and the first ever ‘CoCo’ (Contingent Convertible) fund.
Kate started her Investor Relations career at ZA Capital LLP, a value-focused long-short equity fund, and has also worked at Praxis Fiduciaries, Hamiltonian Associates (formerly Connolly Global Macro Advisors) and New Amsterdam Capital. |
Ian ArmitageIan joined Odyssean in September 2017 as the Non-Executive Chairman. Ian is the former Chairman and CEO of HgCapital (formerly Mercury Private Equity), a leading European mid market private equity house. Under his leadership AUM grew from £300m to £5bn. The investment trust managed by Hg outperformed the FTSE ALL share by an average of 7.4% per annum over the 10-year period prior to his retirement from Hg in 2012.
Ian is now an adviser to Tenzing Private Equity, which is focused on lower mid-market buyouts in the UK and a Managing Partner of Isfield Investments, a family office which manages Mr Armitage’s investments. |
Christopher MillsChristopher is a non-executive director of Odyssean Capital and is CEO of Harwood Capital LLP, which he founded in 2011. He has over 42 years investment experience in quoted and unquoted smaller companies. Harwood's flagship investment trust, North Atlantic Smaller Companies, has generated annualised returns of c. 14% NAV per share since Mr Mills began managing it in the early 1980s.
Christopher was a founder shareholder and CIO of J O Hambro Capital Management from 1993 until its sale in 2011, where it had >£9bn AUM. |
Ryan CortonRyan is Chief Operating Officer of Harwood Capital LLP and has been a Board Director of Harwood Capital Management Limited since 2011. Ryan has responsibility for Group operations and infrastructure, finance, compliance, third party administration, human resources, relationship management and IT.
Prior to founding the Harwood Capital Management Group with Christopher Mills, Ryan was Group Operations Director with J O Hambro Capital Management Limited for 14 years during which time AUM grew from c.£175m to >£9bn, with the team increasing from 15 to 135, and with responsibility for overseeing retail and closed ended fund operations including private equity transactions and foreign exchange . Before joining J O Hambro Capital Management Limited, Ryan was at Schroder Investment Management, and previously Perpetual Investment Management, where he held senior positions within the external custody, client trading and fund administration departments. |
