Richard is Head of the Investment Banking team at Liberum and joined in November 2013.
He has over 30 years’ experience working in corporate finance, equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions and advising clients across a range of sectors and sizes.
A chartered accountant, he started his career at Charterhouse Group in 1985 as a corporate financier before moving to BZW (subsequently acquired by Credit Suisse) in 1997 in corporate broking and equity capital markets where he spent 10 years.
He was appointed Head of Corporate Finance & Corporate Broking at Oriel Securities in 2007 and then joined Espirito Santo in 2010 where he had been Head of Corporate Broking & Advisory before joining Liberum.
Management Board
Bidhi Bhoma
Chief Executive Officer
Bidhi joined Liberum in December 2017 as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking team.
David Parsons
Executive Chairman and Head of Equities
David joined Liberum in 2008 as Head of Equity Sales and was appointed Executive Chairman in December 2020.
Shane Le Prevost
Founder & Executive Director
Shane Le Prevost is Liberum’s founder and is an Executive Director of the Company, he was Chairman and Chief Executive until December 2020.
Andrew Duquemin
Non-Executive Director
Andrew is a Board Director of Liberum and Liberum Wealth and is also Executive Chairman of Elysium Fund Management.
Christopher Howlett
Chief Operating Officer
Christopher is Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Management Team.
Rebecca Gordon
General Counsel
Rebecca is General Counsel at Liberum and is also a member of the Risk & Regulatory Committee.
Dru Danford
Head of Investment Banking
Dru is Head of the Investment Banking team at Liberum, having joined in November 2022.
Oliver Baxendale
Head of UK Sales
Oliver joined Liberum in April 2016 as a member of the UK Small and Mid-Cap Sales Team. He was then appointed as Head of UK Sales in March 2021.
Joe Brent
Head of Research
Joe joined Liberum in 2009. He was previously Managing Director and Head of UK Small and Mid Cap research at Citigroup.
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.
Clayton Bush
Investment Banking Managing Director
Clayton joined Liberum in 2008 from Canaccord, having previously worked for Credit Lyonnais, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and PWC.
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.
