Meet the team
Fund Solutions
Grant Crosby
Head of Fund Solutions
Heads up the UK Fund Solutions business. Investec has built an international franchise which originates, structures and provides capital solutions to the private capital funds market (i.e. private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit funds) from key geographies where we have expertise. The team is run out the UK and focusses on fund managers that invest in the UK, Europe and the USA, irrespective of where they are domiciled.
Grant has been with Investec for 15 years and has experience working in the Advisory, Leveraged Finance and now the Fund Solutions business.
Oliver Bartholomew
Fund Solutions
I work with the Fund Solutions origination team to help support our existing clients and drive new opportunities. This includes assisting with funding requests and taking these through our credit process. I also help to guide clients through both the initial deal process and the deal management phases to ensure they’re well supported at all times.
Additionally, I work with the team on the portfolio and risk management side of the business.
Libby Eastman
Fund Solutions
I provide personal assistance to our global head of Fund Solutions and also support the Fund Solutions team. I’m responsible for diary and email management, travel arrangements and preparing and processing documentation. I also work closely with the marketing and events team to help develop and deliver exceptional events and communications to our clients.
Grant Crosby
Head of Fund Solutions
Heads up the UK Fund Solutions business. Investec has built an international franchise which originates, structures and provides capital solutions to the private capital funds market (i.e. private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit funds) from key geographies where we have expertise. The team is run out the UK and focusses on fund managers that invest in the UK, Europe and the USA, irrespective of where they are domiciled.
Grant has been with Investec for 15 years and has experience working in the Advisory, Leveraged Finance and now the Fund Solutions business.
Oliver Bartholomew
Fund Solutions
I work with the Fund Solutions origination team to help support our existing clients and drive new opportunities. This includes assisting with funding requests and taking these through our credit process. I also help to guide clients through both the initial deal process and the deal management phases to ensure they’re well supported at all times.
Additionally, I work with the team on the portfolio and risk management side of the business.
Libby Eastman
Fund Solutions
I provide personal assistance to our global head of Fund Solutions and also support the Fund Solutions team. I’m responsible for diary and email management, travel arrangements and preparing and processing documentation. I also work closely with the marketing and events team to help develop and deliver exceptional events and communications to our clients.
Seb Wright
Fund Solutions
As the primary dealer in the fund solutions team I handle our clients' FX risk management needs. This can include anything from booking a simple FX payment through to bespoke, credit intensive hedging requirements. It is my job to understand our clients’ pain points and help them plan strategies to minimise risk in the most efficient way possible.
I provide our clients with regular updates and keep them informed of any moves in the financial markets. Through getting to know their businesses I am able to keep our clients informed of the developments that I know will be of most relevance to them.
For clients who are interested in considering a range of hedging options I help them evaluate the potential trading strategies as they consider which would best meet their needs.
Finally, I send out our Fund Solutions Weekly Update featuring our critically acclaimed ‘fact of the week’.
Helen Griffiths
Legal Counsel
My role within the team is one that enables, advises and mitigates legal risk for both our clients and Investec. Using my experience from state practice, I’m responsible for structuring, negotiating and managing deals across multiple business models and different jurisdictions.
My participation in the initial structuring of deals and the guidance that I add as they progress through the credit and documentation stages, allows the team to provide a streamlined service for clients, providing them with holistic and seamless financing solutions.
Clients can benefit from working with a team that has an experienced, involved and innovative embedded legal team. This helps to ensure that deals are run efficiently by skilled, solution driven people.
By working on transactions from the outset, I have a good understanding of our clients’ needs and their broader market challenges. This ensures that I can provide relevant legal advice and input that’s appropriate throughout our commercial relationship.
I am a point of contact for our clients and can help with queries they may have from a legal and deal management perspective.
Matt Hansford
Fund Solutions
Matt joined Investec in 2011 as one of the former members of Fund Solutions. Matt leads the origination of new clients and relationships across the business and heads the NAV Financing strategy. He co-led the UK Fund Solutions team growing the business to one of the largest credit businesses in Investec Bank Plc accounting for up to 15% of the bank’s balance sheet and over £3bn of third party capital raised. Across his time with the team he has originated, structured and executed deals across the entire Fund Financing spectrum and has overseen a team with zero impairments.
Matt has 14 years+ of lending experience. Prior to Investec, Matt was a Vice President in the Subordinated Debt and Leverage Finance teams at Barclays where he provided a range of solutions across the capital structure. Matt holds a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from Loughborough University and has qualified as an Associate of the Corporate Treasurers.
Seb Wright
Fund Solutions
As the primary dealer in the fund solutions team I handle our clients' FX risk management needs. This can include anything from booking a simple FX payment through to bespoke, credit intensive hedging requirements. It is my job to understand our clients’ pain points and help them plan strategies to minimise risk in the most efficient way possible.
I provide our clients with regular updates and keep them informed of any moves in the financial markets. Through getting to know their businesses I am able to keep our clients informed of the developments that I know will be of most relevance to them.
For clients who are interested in considering a range of hedging options I help them evaluate the potential trading strategies as they consider which would best meet their needs.
Finally, I send out our Fund Solutions Weekly Update featuring our critically acclaimed ‘fact of the week’.
Helen Griffiths
Legal Counsel
My role within the team is one that enables, advises and mitigates legal risk for both our clients and Investec. Using my experience from state practice, I’m responsible for structuring, negotiating and managing deals across multiple business models and different jurisdictions.
My participation in the initial structuring of deals and the guidance that I add as they progress through the credit and documentation stages, allows the team to provide a streamlined service for clients, providing them with holistic and seamless financing solutions.
Clients can benefit from working with a team that has an experienced, involved and innovative embedded legal team. This helps to ensure that deals are run efficiently by skilled, solution driven people.
By working on transactions from the outset, I have a good understanding of our clients’ needs and their broader market challenges. This ensures that I can provide relevant legal advice and input that’s appropriate throughout our commercial relationship.
I am a point of contact for our clients and can help with queries they may have from a legal and deal management perspective.
Matt Hansford
Fund Solutions
Matt joined Investec in 2011 as one of the former members of Fund Solutions. Matt leads the origination of new clients and relationships across the business and heads the NAV Financing strategy. He co-led the UK Fund Solutions team growing the business to one of the largest credit businesses in Investec Bank Plc accounting for up to 15% of the bank’s balance sheet and over £3bn of third party capital raised. Across his time with the team he has originated, structured and executed deals across the entire Fund Financing spectrum and has overseen a team with zero impairments.
Matt has 14 years+ of lending experience. Prior to Investec, Matt was a Vice President in the Subordinated Debt and Leverage Finance teams at Barclays where he provided a range of solutions across the capital structure. Matt holds a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from Loughborough University and has qualified as an Associate of the Corporate Treasurers.
Jonathan Harvey
Fund Solutions
Working in the Fund Solutions team, I focus on providing flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams. I work with a range of primary, secondary and fund of funds based across Europe to provide GP facilities, structured fund bridging, concentrated NAV-based funding and secondary leverage. My aim is to help clients improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Alan Macdonald
Fund Solutions
I joined the Investec Fund Finance team in 2016 as legal counsel. I work closely with the origination teams throughout the transaction process and will be involved in deal structuring, negotiation and deal execution. I am a point of contact for our clients and can help with queries they may have from a legal and deal management perspective.
Joe McKenna
Fund Solutions
I work on Investec’s fund solutions team, with a specific focus on helping funds manage foreign exchange within their business. Movements in foreign exchange prices are notoriously volatile and unpredictable so our clients value having a trusted partner to help them navigate the currency markets. They may need help with day-to-day FX transactions, making payments and receiving funds or it could be putting in place a long term hedging strategy to protect the fund from a significant FX risk.
Our legal, credit and dealing teams work closely together to ensure we have an offering that is sympathetic to how funds operate. No fund is the same so my first step is always getting a deep understanding of our client.
Jonathan Harvey
Fund Solutions
Working in the Fund Solutions team, I focus on providing flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams. I work with a range of primary, secondary and fund of funds based across Europe to provide GP facilities, structured fund bridging, concentrated NAV-based funding and secondary leverage. My aim is to help clients improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Alan Macdonald
Fund Solutions
I joined the Investec Fund Finance team in 2016 as legal counsel. I work closely with the origination teams throughout the transaction process and will be involved in deal structuring, negotiation and deal execution. I am a point of contact for our clients and can help with queries they may have from a legal and deal management perspective.
Joe McKenna
Fund Solutions
I work on Investec’s fund solutions team, with a specific focus on helping funds manage foreign exchange within their business. Movements in foreign exchange prices are notoriously volatile and unpredictable so our clients value having a trusted partner to help them navigate the currency markets. They may need help with day-to-day FX transactions, making payments and receiving funds or it could be putting in place a long term hedging strategy to protect the fund from a significant FX risk.
Our legal, credit and dealing teams work closely together to ensure we have an offering that is sympathetic to how funds operate. No fund is the same so my first step is always getting a deep understanding of our client.
Slade Spalding
Fund Solutions
I work with a range of fund managers based throughout the UK to provide GP facilities, structured fund bridging, and concentrated NAV-based funding. My focus is to provide flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams to help improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Ian Wiese
Fund Solutions
As an origination director for Fund Solutions, I provide a range of flexible leverage solutions to funds and fund managers across private equity, infrastructure and other fund strategies. My main focus is in the UK primary and the European secondary markets.
I work with clients to help them improve returns, optimise their balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunities. This can be achieved through various solutions such as GP facilities, structured fund bridging, concentrated NAV-based funding and secondary leverage.
Joshua Band
Fund Solutions
I work predominantly with the UK and European Fund Solutions teams to maintain and grow existing client relationships and to drive new opportunities. I have worked on a range of transactions with fund managers to provide solutions from structured fund bridging to general partners’ and concentrated NAV-based financing.
Slade Spalding
Fund Solutions
I work with a range of fund managers based throughout the UK to provide GP facilities, structured fund bridging, and concentrated NAV-based funding. My focus is to provide flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams to help improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Ian Wiese
Fund Solutions
As an origination director for Fund Solutions, I provide a range of flexible leverage solutions to funds and fund managers across private equity, infrastructure and other fund strategies. My main focus is in the UK primary and the European secondary markets.
I work with clients to help them improve returns, optimise their balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunities. This can be achieved through various solutions such as GP facilities, structured fund bridging, concentrated NAV-based funding and secondary leverage.
Joshua Band
Fund Solutions
I work predominantly with the UK and European Fund Solutions teams to maintain and grow existing client relationships and to drive new opportunities. I have worked on a range of transactions with fund managers to provide solutions from structured fund bridging to general partners’ and concentrated NAV-based financing.
Michael Zornitta
Fund Solutions
I work within the Fund Solutions origination team to help support our existing clients and drive new opportunities and strategies. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions
Michael Slane
Fund Solutions
Working within Investec Fund Solutions the team and I provide a breadth of financing and risk solutions to the funds sector including private equity, real estate, private credit and the investors in alternative assets. I’ve been with Investec since 2009, firstly in the fixed income business before launching Investec’s Risk Solutions offering for Financial Institutions in 2016 and moving into my current role as Co-Head of Origination in 2019.
Olivia Deroy
Fund Solutions
I work with the UK and Europe focussed side of the Fund Finance teams to maintain and grow our existing clients and drive new opportunities and strategies. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions.
Michael Zornitta
Fund Solutions
I work within the Fund Solutions origination team to help support our existing clients and drive new opportunities and strategies. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions
Michael Slane
Fund Solutions
Working within Investec Fund Solutions the team and I provide a breadth of financing and risk solutions to the funds sector including private equity, real estate, private credit and the investors in alternative assets. I’ve been with Investec since 2009, firstly in the fixed income business before launching Investec’s Risk Solutions offering for Financial Institutions in 2016 and moving into my current role as Co-Head of Origination in 2019.
Olivia Deroy
Fund Solutions
I work with the UK and Europe focussed side of the Fund Finance teams to maintain and grow our existing clients and drive new opportunities and strategies. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions.
Kate Bezuidenhout
Fund Solutions
I work within the Fund Solutions team focusing on developing, tailoring and managing bespoke financial solutions for funds and fund managers across private equity, infrastructure and real estate. I have been involved in providing solutions for each stage of the fund lifecycle, namely portfolio-based NAV lending facilities for funds, subscription facilities for funds and solutions to assist GPs with their co-invest.
Punit Mistry
Fund Solutions
I work with the UK and Europe focussed side of the Fund Finance team to maintain and grow existing client relationships and to drive new opportunities. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions, including capital call bridging, general partner financing and portfolio NAV financing.
Stuart Ingledew
Fund Solutions
Working in the UK Fund Solutions team, I provide a range of flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams. I work with a range of primary, secondary and fund of funds based throughout the UK and Europe to provide GP facilities, capital call facilities, concentrated NAV facilities and secondary leverage. My aim is to help clients improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Additionally, I am working on the concentrated NAV financing strategy, which will enable third party investors the opportunity to gain exposure to the concentrated NAV financing product.
Kate Bezuidenhout
Fund Solutions
I work within the Fund Solutions team focusing on developing, tailoring and managing bespoke financial solutions for funds and fund managers across private equity, infrastructure and real estate. I have been involved in providing solutions for each stage of the fund lifecycle, namely portfolio-based NAV lending facilities for funds, subscription facilities for funds and solutions to assist GPs with their co-invest.
Punit Mistry
Fund Solutions
I work with the UK and Europe focussed side of the Fund Finance team to maintain and grow existing client relationships and to drive new opportunities. This includes supporting funds through all stages of their lifecycle and providing our clients with innovative and flexible financing solutions, including capital call bridging, general partner financing and portfolio NAV financing.
Stuart Ingledew
Fund Solutions
Working in the UK Fund Solutions team, I provide a range of flexible financing solutions to private equity funds and fund management teams. I work with a range of primary, secondary and fund of funds based throughout the UK and Europe to provide GP facilities, capital call facilities, concentrated NAV facilities and secondary leverage. My aim is to help clients improve returns, optimise balance sheets, create liquidity and facilitate opportunistic transactions.
Additionally, I am working on the concentrated NAV financing strategy, which will enable third party investors the opportunity to gain exposure to the concentrated NAV financing product.