Joe Brent joined Liberum in July 2009 as Head of UK Small & Mid Cap research, before becoming Head of Research in 2013.
Prior to Liberum, Joe was a Managing Director and Head of UK Small and Mid Cap research at Citigroup where he worked for four years. Joe was rated first by Extel in Mid Cap research in 2012 and 2013. He started his career as an accountant at Deloitte and Touche before joining Cazenove, where he worked for ten years before joining Citigroup.
Joe graduated in 1992 from Downing College, Cambridge with a degree in History.
Senior Management Team
Shane Le Prevost
Chairman & Chief Executive
Shane Le Prevost is Chairman, Chief Executive and founder of Liberum.
David Parsons
Director, Head of Equities
David joined Liberum in 2008. Prior to Liberum, David was a Managing Director and Head of UK Equity Sales at Citigroup.
Christopher Howlett
Chief Operating Officer
Christopher is Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Management Team.
Steve Pearce
Co-Head of Investment Banking
Steve joined in 2007 as a founding member of Liberum’s corporate advisory business.
Richard Crawley
Co-Head of Investment Banking
Richard joined Liberum in 2013. Prior to this, Richard was Head of Corporate Broking & Advisory at Espirito Santo.
Neil Patel
Investment Banking Managing Director
Neil joined Liberum in 2013. He previously spent 12 years at UBS, acting as broker and advisor to FTSE100 and FTSE 250 companies.
Clayton Bush
Investment Banking Managing Director
Clayton joined Liberum in 2008 from Canaccord, having previously worked for Credit Lyonnais, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and PWC.
Edward Blair
Head of Product Strategy, Equities
Ed joined Liberum in 2007. He previously worked for Cazenove in both Emerging Market and Pan European equity sales.
Lynsey Cox
Head of Corporate & Investor Relations
Lynsey joined Liberum in 2015, having spent 4 years at Numis as an Associate Director on the Investor Relations team.
Mark James
Head of Expert Access
Mark re-joined Liberum in 2016 after four years away setting up an Innovation function for the main board of PwC in the UK.
Rebecca Gordon
General Counsel
Rebecca is General Counsel at Liberum and is also a member of the Risk & Regulatory Committee.
Mark Godridge
Chief Executive Officer - USA
Mark joined Liberum in 2007 and has been in New York for over 20 years selling Pan-European equities throughout the US and Canada.
Julian Collett
Head of Sales
Julian joined in 2007 having previously spent 11 years working at Cazenove.
Graham Smith
Head of Execution
Graham joined Liberum in 2016. Prior to Liberum, Graham has worked for Dillion Reed, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Unicredit and Trafalgar Capital.
