Our Team
One of our strongest attributes is the mix of skills, personalities and experiences among our partners.
Each has their own specialist field of knowledge and experience, and client projects will often involve a blend of partner involvement, as required.
Our talent proposition is “independent thinkers”. We look for people who can think for themselves, contribute to our collective knowledge and have a fundamental desire to do the right thing.
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Charles Fallon
Charles co-founded S.I.Partners with Alistair, and leads the firm’s consultancy practice. This involves conducting strategic reviews, and providing advice regarding every aspect of business improvement.
Some assignments are analytical and quantitative, and involve helping clients to develop and change their businesses, and increasing their profitability. Others address interpersonal issues, and involve training and coaching teams and individuals to change their behaviours and to work together better.
Charles and the consulting team work with clients in all major business regions: the Far East and Continental Europe as well as the UK. As well as carrying out consulting assignments, Charles carries out a non-executive role for a number of clients, and acts as a personal coach to a number of business leaders.
Before creating S.I.Partners, Charles and Alistair started, built and sold the Pets’ Pyjamas internet and catalogue business. Pets’ Pyjamas was one of Europe’s major dot-com business stories. Charles and Alistair have collaborated with a number of entrepreneurs to help build and sell businesses.
Prior to this, Charles spent nearly a decade at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising London as a Group Account Director responsible for clients such as Hewlett Packard and Schweppes. He restructured Saatchi’s direct marketing and sales promotion offerings, and launched Saatchi Vision and Saatchi Interactive.
Charles is a frequent speaker at conferences, and runs a series of workshops with the AAR.
Charles Fallon - Managing Partner
Tel: +44 (0) 7970 409 268
Email: charles@sipartners.co.uk -
Alistair Angus
Alistair co-founded S.I.Partners with Charles, and runs the firm’s transactions practice. This involves initiating and managing deals, including both sales and acquisitions.Alistair and the transactions team work on deals in all major business regions: the Far East, the Americas, and Continental Europe as well as the UK.
Before creating S.I.Partners, Alistair and Charles started, built and sold the Pets’ Pyjamas internet and catalogue business. Pets’ Pyjamas was one of Europe’s major dot-com business stories. Due to the ‘dot-com’ nature of the business, Pets’ Pyjamas gave Alistair plenty of opportunities to add to his mergers and disposal experience.
Prior to working with Charles, Alistair had acquired a loss-making manufacturing company and developed it by acquisition and organic growth into a profitable business.
This entrepreneurship followed General Management roles for Inchcape Plc in the Near, Middle and Far East.
Alistair’s first degree was in Chemistry and this was followed by an MBA from Manchester Business School, conducted in part at Università Bocconi, Milan.
Alistair Angus - Managing Partner
Tel: +44 (0) 7970 409 271
Email: alistair@sipartners.co.uk -
Otto Stevens
Otto is a partner at S.I.Partners, and leads the firm’s financial practice. Recent assignments handled by the practice include a profit improvement programme at a multinational PR group, turnaround programmes for two UK agencies, and a cross-border MBO.In early 2005, Otto undertook a share buyback for Iris Group during a period of rapid growth. He was subsequently asked to join Iris as CFO and became an integral part of the management team implementing the group’s strategy and overseeing a period of sustained growth.
His commercial expertise helped the group to increase profits whilst setting up new overseas offices in North America and the Far East, and making investments in data, digital and brand planning disciplines / services. He was also responsible for finance, including financial reporting, business planning and treasury.
Before joining Iris, Otto was a co-founder of Pembridge Partners, which provides management consultancy, corporate finance and investment funds for creative businesses.
Otto qualified (FCCA) as an accountant with Grant Thornton’s corporate finance team, becoming lead adviser on a number of mergers and acquisitions.
Otto Stevens – Partner
Tel: +44 (0) 7866 317 574
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Nick Horswell
Nick spent 16 years working in the media departments of various full-service advertising agencies, before leaving in late ’89 to set up an independent media agency with his friends David Pattison and Jonathan Durden (PHD).By mid ’95 the company had grown to around £90 million turnover, and P, H and D were all looking for new challenges. They sold their business to the AMV Group, merged with AMV’s media department and embarked on a 5-year earn-out with very scary targets.
By the end of 2000, PHD had become a group of 8 companies, employing 240 mainly happy people, turning over nearly £400 million a year, and making very healthy profits and margins. In early 2002, Nick left to set up Uncle, offering consultancy support (uncle-ing) to small and medium sized creative agencies and the people who run them.
Since then Nick has worked with companies in every sector of marketing services, and more recently with a number of other consultancy businesses.
Nick Horswell – Chairman
Tel: +44 (0) 7785 706 520
Email: nick@sipartners.co.uk -
Tristan Rice
Tristan joined S.I.Partners in 2006 and became a Partner in 2010.
He now heads up the corporate finance practice in Europe, advising entrepreneurs on exit strategies and managing transactions internationally.
Prior to joining S.I.Partners, Tristan built and sold the specialist media planning & buying agency Red Media. He co-founded the agency in 1994 at the age of 24, following several years in media sales. Red Media was acquired by BLM Group (now Arena Media) in 2005.
Tristan Rice – Partner
Tel: +44 (0) 7770 238 922
Email: tristan@sipartners.co.uk -
Sanjeev Gandhi
Sanjeev joined S.I.Partners in March 2011 from Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, where he was primarily responsible for executing strategic advisory, M&A and fund-raise assignments within the wider Technology sector. Sanjeev also led the Firm’s cross border India-UK M&A initiative, and during 2009/10 he was seconded to GT’s Bangalore office where he established relationships with major acquisitive IT corporates in India.Previously he was with PwC’s Technology Corporate Finance Team and also spent several years in various corporate in-house M&A roles within the Technology and Telecoms sector responsible for sourcing, negotiating and executing mid-market transactions.
Sanjeev is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Securities Investment Institute.
Sanjeev Gandhi – Director
Tel: +44 (0) 7717 833 286
Email: sanjeev@sipartners.co.uk -
Sarah Longfield
Sarah joined the S.I.Partners transactions practice in March 2010.Before joining S.I.Partners, Sarah held an advisory role working alongside underwriters at Lloyd’s of London.
Previously, she designed bespoke training courses for customers of a leading operations training consultancy. She also devised their marketing, advertising and sales strategy.
Sarah holds a degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic) from Oxford University as part of which she spent a year studying at the University of Damascus and travelled extensively in the region.
Sarah Longfield – Consultant
Tel: +44 (0)7790 608 469
Email: sarah@sipartners.co.uk -
Isabel Langdon
Isabel joined the S.I.Partners Consultancy practice in November 2010.Prior to joining S.I. Partners, Isabel was employed at the Client Relationship Consultancy, a boutique firm which specialises in the advertising and media industry. There she worked directly with international networks to help monitor and improve agency and client relationships and facilitate good communications.
Isabel read History at the University of Oxford, where she first gained commercial experience as Business Manager of the independent student newspaper, The Cherwell.
Isabel langdon – Consultant
Tel: +44 (0) 7585 978 311
Email: isabel@sipartners.co.uk -
Jimmy Lam
Born and educated in Hong Kong, Jimmy started his career as Chinese language copywriter, rising through the ranks in six international advertising agencies in Hong Kong to become Executive Creative Director & CEO, and Asia Pacific Executive Creative Director & Greater China Chairman.Over the years, Jimmy earned his reputation as one of the most awarded home grown creatives, taking four years sabbatical to get his fix as TV commercial film director. Jimmy was the first Hong Kong creative invited to judge at Cannes International Advertising Festival.
Author of three Chinese books on the lighter side of advertising creativity, Jimmy dedicates his free time to running the Longyin Review magazine to showcase outstanding Chinese language advertising.
In 2008, Jimmy was honoured by the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication as one of the 40 most distinguished alumni at its 40th anniversary.
Frequently invited to speak at industry forums and university seminars, Jimmy has been appointed as visiting professor of the Shanghai Tong Ji University; curriculum advisor to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication, and is a part time professor of the Shanghai Communication University.
Jimmy is currently a Creative Advisor to Dentsu Japan & Asia, member of the MastersHUB in China and President of Asia Pacific Advertising Festival.
Jimmy Lam – Chairman, Asia
Tel: +86 1350 1878 411
Email: jimmy@sipartnersasia.com -
Felicity Conlan
Felicity joined S.I.Partners in January 2011 to expand the Asia financial practice and establish S.I.Partners Australia.Felicity works with creative service businesses to provide the optimum structures, systems and processes to enable them to succeed financially and grow profitably – with particular experience identifying opportunities and challenges during rapid expansion and change.
Most recently, Felicity was Commercial Director at Beattie McGuinnessBungay London where she managed growth from start-up (2005) to turnover of £25m and staff of 125 across London, New York and Mumbai (2010). Felicity managed the successful sale of 49% of BMB to Cheil Worldwide, a South Korean communications group, including intensive financial, legal, commercial and tax due diligence process.
Before joining BMB, Felicity was Finance Director at M&C Saatchi Australia and was directly involved in the growth from start-up (1995) to annual turnover A$70m, staff of 230 across Sydney and Melbourne and public float (2004).
In 2005, Felicity completed an executive MBA at The Australian Graduate School of Management. Felicity is a Certified Practicing Accountant with undergraduate degrees in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland.
Felicity Conlan – Partner, Australia
Tel: +61 410 65 40 40
Email: felicity@sipartnersaustralia.com.au -
Stephanie Stamatakou
Stephanie joined S.I. partners in 2011 and leads the firm’s marketing services consultancy practice. Stephanie comes with over 16 years of global marketing communications experience having led business units and key clients in London, Athens, NY and Singapore for leading agencies. Most recently, Stephanie was based out in Asia and was Ogilvy&Mather’s regional lead for healthcare marketing communications. As part of their growth strategy for health, Stephanie led the mergers and acquisitions effort, which focussed on China, India, Japan and HK.
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Francesca Revell
Francesca joined S.I. Partners in December 2011.
Before joining, Francesca was employed by a management consultancy firm, providing assistance to the Directors and working with clients within the Public Sector. In parallel, Francesca managed the events, PR and marketing for the CIPD, a large HR corporation within one of its London branches.
Recently, Francesca interned at the London 2012 Organising Committee, interviewing volunteer candidates for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Francesca studied History at Manchester University, where she was sub-editor of the Student Newspaper. She holds qualifications in ECDL and project management.