NEW STREET ADVISORY - Key Persons

Iain Johnston - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Senior Managing Director and Founder of New Street Research
As Senior Managing Director and Founder of New Street Research, Iain has 35 years' experience in equity research and investment banking, covering telecommunications companies in Europe, Japan, and South-East Asia in this period, based in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Prior to founding New Street Research and leading its international development, Iain was a Managing Director and Global Head of Telecommunications Research at J.P.Morgan, where he was ranked as the No. 1 European Wireline Services analyst in Institutional Investor in 2001 and 2002. Iain brings an in-depth knowledge of both the global telecommunications industry and has been involved in many large-scale advisory and equity capital transactions in his career, including the privatisations and IPOs of BT, NTT, Swisscom, Telkom South Africa, PT Indosat and Cesky Telecom, the IPOs of Telefonica Moviles and STET Hellas, and advising KPN on the acquisition of e-Plus, the defence of Telecom Italia versus Olivetti, and the demerger of Vodafone from Racal. Iain holds an MA from Cambridge University where he was a University History Scholar.

Peter Golob - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Managing Director and Founder of Anchor Partners Ltd
As Managing Director and Founder of Anchor Partners Ltd, Peter has 33 years of experience in telecommunications, media and technology finance both as a research analyst and an investment banker serving as Head of TMT Investment Banking (EMEA and Asia) for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and SGWarburg. Until recently, Peter was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Chairman of TMT at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Over the course of his career, Peter was responsible for managing teams of 15-50 advisory and corporate finance professionals, as well as major client relationships.