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WEALTH MANAGEMENT: men with suits

Over a year prior to the launch of Meridian Rock McKagan had met
Andy Bottomley, a British investor and former banker and the two hit it
off immediately, so much so that they along with Ian Watson another
professional investor decided to form Meridian Rock and McKagan and

Bottomley started interviewing money managers in both Europe and the
U.S.

The company web site provides the following information on the
company and its founders:

Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity , Finance

SIC Codes: 6799

Company Description:

Meridian Rock Capital Management LP is a new and ambitious venture,
which seeks to redraw the landscape for wealth and asset management
within the global music industry. Founded by experienced professionals
and a world-renowned musician/artist, the business will target the clear

gap in the marketplace for fully bespoke and customised wealth
management services for the broader music industry. The music industry

continues to create vast wealth. Meridian Rock will ensure this is
retained by those who made it.

Founders

Andy Bottomley (www.meridianrock.com)

After an early career in academia Bottomley entered the financial market
in the mid- ‘90s and became a main board member of a UK LSE listed

investment bank (now owned by a division of Lazard) specializing in
high-growth companies. At age 34 he was co-managing a publically
quoted business, which enjoyed a peak market capitalisation of c$3.5bn.