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Principal Investors •
Darren Carter Rob Memmott
Darren has substantial experience in the financial sector Rob was Group Chief Financial Officer at Arrow Global
dating back to when he started his career in the securities Group PLC and qualified as a chartered accountant with
industry in 1986 at Cresvale Ltd where he was promoted to KPMG in Manchester.
Head of Sales and Trading, responsible for managing the
firm's Japanese equity-linked operations. He has been a corporate Chief Financial Officer for 10 years
and has over 15 years experience in senior financial
He went on to join D.E. Shaw Securities International as leadership roles within private equity backed and listed
Director of Sales and Trading in charge of equity-linked organisations.
products. Darren went on to become Managing Director,
before leading the sale of the securities business to KBC Prior to joining Arrow Global, Rob was CFO and Company
Bank in 1999. Secretary of Leeds Bradford International Airport Ltd. He
also previously served as finance director of Alfred
Following the sale, Darren took the role of Chief Investment McAlpine and was Chief Financial Officer at Servisair UK
Officer at KBC Alternative Investment Management Limited Limited (now known as Servisair Group Limited).
before becoming Chief Executive Officer at KBC Financial
Products UK Limited, with the management responsibility Rob brings significant corporate experience to Praetura,
for the firm and its subsidiaries. providing valuable expertise in raising and restructuring
debt and in undertaking corporate M&A transactions.
In more recent years Darren has served as a Non-Executive
Director of Avoca Capital Holdings, an asset management Rob also has a wealth of corporate governance experience
company which was sold to KKR in 2014. and oversaw the growth of Arrow Global from £14m
EBITDA to £250m EBITDA.
Darren was also the lead investor and Chairman of Peel
Hunt LLP until 2016. He also holds a number of substantial Rob has committed £2.0m (with an option for a further
personal investments in financial services businesses, £500k) to the Group.
including Transact (IntegraFin Holdings Plc), Praetura
Commercial Finance and Embark Group.
