HILCO CAPITAL - Key Persons


Adam Gordon - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Investment Director
Adam joined Hilco in 2013 and is responsible for deal sourcing, transaction execution, due diligence and portfolio management. Adam has managed equity turnaround plans and direct lending investments across a variety of sectors including retail and industrial. Adam is also responsible for Hilco's presence in Scotland.

Catherine King

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Investment Analyst
Catherine is a Chartered Accountant with over six years' experience in professional services.

Chris Emmott - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Investment Director

Gavin Caine - Retail Director

Job Titles:
  • Retail Director

Henry Foster - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
Henry joined Hilco in 2007 and was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Hilco Capital in January 2017.

Hugh Whitcomb

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Engineer
  • Lead Advisory Partner - Manufacturing
Hugh is a Chartered Engineer with over 38 years' experience of industrial operations and commercial management across a wide range of industrial sectors including power generation, petrochemicals and general manufacturing/engineering. He specialises in industrial business investment and turnaround, working with both the Hilco Investment Team and portfolio Directors and Boards to facilitate accelerated financial and operational performance improvement post acquisition.

Jaimin Shah

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Investment Analyst
Jaimin is a chartered accountant with over four years' experience of turnaround, financial and operational restructuring.

James Turner - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Investment Director

Jeremy Nettlefold

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Investment Manager ( Australia )
Jeremy is a Chartered Accountant who has over seven years of turnaround and restructuring experience having worked at KordaMentha in Australia before working at KPMG and Interpath Advisory in the UK.

Jimmy Barnard

Job Titles:
  • Investment Manager - Industrial Projects

John Turner

Job Titles:
  • European Chief Finance Officer

Josh Robertshaw

Job Titles:
  • Investment Manager

Lewis McMenamin

Job Titles:
  • Director ( Australia )

Mark Biermans

Job Titles:
  • Director ( Europe )

Matthew Holt - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Investment Director
Matt is a chartered accountant with fifteen years' experience in corporate restructuring, having trained at an international restructuring practice.

Paul McGowan - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chairman

Ryan Sher

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Head of Investment Modelling and Analysis
Ryan is a qualified Chartered Accountant who runs the Investment Modelling and Analysis team at Hilco with nearly 20 years‘ post-qualification experience in corporate finance, restructuring and turnaround work. Having joined from Deloitte in 2009, Ryan has played a key role in a number of extremely high profile restructuring and turnaround projects within the retail, manufacturing and wholesale sectors, through developing deal investment models and undertaking detailed financial due diligence. He also works closely with CFOs post-transaction to help them create company budgets and key management information as a tool to implement a successful turnaround.

Steven Pell - Chief Investment Officer

Job Titles:
  • Investment Director

Tom Jones

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Investment Manager
Tom is a Chartered Accountant with over five years' experience in restructuring advisory and insolvency.