CEO Today Europe Awards

www.ceotodaymagazine.com 70 CEO Today Europe Awards 2018 the united kingdom ANTHONY HOTSON CEO of Cenkos Securities PLC FIRM PROFILE Cenkos is a leading securities firm focused on growth companies. We act as nominated advisor, sponsor, broker and financial adviser to companies across all sectors and stages of growth. Our ethos is to focus on understanding our clients’ needs to deliver results. We aim to be the lead long-term, trusted adviser to our clients on all their equity capital needs. We have both flexibility and strength. Since we opened for business in 2005 we have raised more than £15bn of equity capital for our clients ranging from less than £1m to £1.4bn Our stable team of experienced professionals is one of the most active and has executed some of the most complex transactions in our space. We know well the issues facing entrepreneurs and business owners and how to address them. Every day we work with promising businesses and ambitious teams to help them achieve their objectives. We also work with business owners looking for an exit. Some of our most successful transactions have facilitated an exit for private equity groups. If you are considering the equity markets whether as a business or as a business owner, we would be delighted to have an informal conversation. We pride ourselves in providing rapid, honest feedback and making practical suggestions for alternative options if we cannot help ourselves. Cenkos was founded in 2004 by a small group of professionals with more than 20 years’ experience each, in funding smaller companies. Cenkos’ founders share a long term commitment to bring together capital and enterprise and to play a role as a leading broker and adviser, fostering growth and shareholder returns. Reflecting on their long experience in the market, Cenkos was set up with a distinct model to address the specific challenges that smaller companies face. Cenkos was admitted to trading on AIM in 2006 has been profitable every year since inception and has a strong balance sheet. We have opened offices in London (2005), Edinburgh (2008), Singapore (2014) and Liverpool (2015). ABOUT ANTHONY HOTSON Anthony was appointed as an Executive Director and to the position of Chief Executive Officer in August 2017 prior to this Anthony had been a Non-executive Director of the Company since May 2012. Anthony joined the Bank of England in 1978 and worked in the Economics Division, Governor’s Office and Money Markets Division. He subsequently worked for McKinsey & Company and then the corporate finance division of S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. He was a Director of S.G. Warburg & Co. Ltd. from 1992 to 1995 and subsequently Managing Director and Head of the Financial Institutions Group, SBC / UBS Warburg until 1998. He was a Non- executive Director of Henderson Group plc and Chairman of its subsidiary companies, London Life and Towry Law, before their sale. Anthony has an MPhil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Financial History, Darwin College, Cambridge and an associate member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.