Senior Management

Nick Finegold is founder and Executive Chairman of Execution Noble Limited. After 20 years of industry experience Nick established Execution in July 2001 to become a leader in the provision of conflict-free broking and research to the world’s major institutions. Prior to founding Execution, Nick spent five years as Head of Global Equity Sales Trading at Deutsche Bank in London where he was instrumental in setting up their European equity trading business. Nick also established the Execution Charitable Trust in 2002, which targets community projects in the UK’s poorest and most deprived areas. Nick is based in our London office.

Angus graduated in History from Cambridge University and subsequently worked for Lazard Brothers, Smith New Court and Merrill Lynch. During his career he worked in London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, latterly as Head of Capital Markets and Financing for Merrill Lynch in Asia. He joined Noble in 2006 and was appointed chief executive in 2007. A driving force in the merger with Execution, Angus is Deputy Chief Executive of Execution Noble Ltd and also holds a non executive directorship of JPMorgan Elect plc.

Damien Devine is a founding partner and Global COO of Execution Noble Limited. Prior to joining Nick to establish Execution, Damien spent 6 years at Deutsche Bank where he was Chief Operating Officer of Global Exchange Services and was appointed Managing Director. Damien is also currently Chairman of the Execution Charitable Trust and is based in our London Office.

James Blackburn joined Execution Noble Limited in September 2001 and is European COO. James joined us from Merrill Lynch where he was Managing Director in charge of Sales Trading to U.S. clients. James is based in our London office.

Garreth Hodgson joined Execution Noble as one of the founding partners in July 2001 and is now Head of European Equities. Prior to joining Execution, Garreth spent 6 years in Equity Sales and Sales Trading at Goldman Sachs. He is based in our London office.

After graduating in PPE from Oxford University, John qualified as a barrister in 1984. He joined Hill Samuel Merchant Bank and became Head of Corporate Finance and a member of the Bank Executive Committee. The team moved to Close Brothers and John became Chief Executive of the enlarged corporate finance group and founded its international business. He was also an Executive Director of Close Brothers Group. He joined Noble in 2002 and since 2003 has led the development of Noble into a growth market investment bank. At Execution Noble he heads up M&A.

Nigel Morris-Jones joined Execution Noble in June 2008 and is Head of Equity Capital Markets. Nigel joined us from Fox-Pitt Kelton and is based in our London office.

Dipesh Patel joined Execution in March 2005 and is Head of UK Sales. Dipesh joined us from DPS Capital and is based in our London office.

Joe graduated from the University of Oxford in 1988 with a MA in Jurisprudence.  Joe led Noble’s investment activity in UK Infrastructure with over 20 projects with a capital value in excess of £800 million and their subsequent sale to a secondary fund, one of the first major portfolio sale in the UK PFI sector.  He worked with venture capital backed businesses in North America before joining Noble in 1991.  He has led the development of the Infrastructure business from 1995 and   established the company’s Natural Resources and Energy practice with key IPOs of clients with assets in West Africa, South Africa and Asia.

John is the Head of the Noble Financial Services Team and the GMA FIG Sector team. His past clients have included many major banking and insurance groups, both in the UK and overseas, and he has extensive experience in handling asset finance transactions. Specifically, he advised Aviva on the disposal of their stake in Lex Vehicle Leasing (one of the largest UK vehicle leasing groups) to HBOS in 2005. Previously, he advised on the merger of United Bank of Kuwait and Al Ahli Bank of Bahrain to form AUB, and on transactions involving banks in the Czech Republic and Spain. Prior to joining Noble he headed the international financial services M & A sector team at KPMG Corporate Finance.

Neil Strong joined Execution Noble in September 2007 and is Head of Insurance Products. Neil joined us from Willis Ltd and is based in our London office.

Peter joined Execution Noble from Merrill Lynch where he initially headed up the Pan-European Small & Mid Cap sales desk before moving to Investment Banking to lead the Small & Mid Cap Corporate Broking department. Over this period Peter led a variety of IPOs, secondary fundraisings, M&A and P2P transactions for corporate clients including Punch Taverns, Premier Foods, Debenhams, Halfords, Body Shop and many more. In 2007, he moved to New York to start the Equity Advisory Content Group. Within 12 months, the Sector Specialist Sales team was ranked #1 in the Insititutional Investor All America Sales Survey for Industry Specific Sales Group across Wall Street. Before Merrills, Peter spent four years at Charterhouse Securities in the team ranked #1 in the Reuters Small Cap survey.

Scott graduated with an MSc. in Economics from Bristol in 1990. A career in academia saw stints at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Tutor and Lecturer in Economics at Oriel, Oxford. He joined UBS (Phillips and Drew) working in the smaller companies team before moving to ABN Amro, then Merrill Lynch and back to ABN Amro in 2003, where he became latterly Head of Equity Sales with responsibility for UK, Europe and North America. Scott joined Noble as Head of Research in 2009.

Prior to joining Execution Noble Paul was a Director at Merrill Lynch, where he has been for eight years. Throughout Paul and Laura’s time at Merrill’s the team was ranked one of the leading UK small/mid cap sales trading teams. Prior to Merrill’s Paul was a core part of the team which drove Charterhouse Securities to the no.1 Extel rank for UK smaller company brokers before its acquisition by ING.

Gary Cunningham joined Execution Noble in December 2002 and is Head of US Equities. Gary joined us from ABN AMRO and is based in our Greenwich, CT office.

Dan joined Execution in 2006

Co-founder and a former Board Director of Clear Capital. At Clear Capital, Saurabh ran its UK Financials team, leading it to a top 3 Extel ranking. He previously worked as a strategy consultant at Accenture and London Economics, specialising in Financial Services. He graduated in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Ben's has worked in the UK and the US for D'Arcy and Publicis Group with clients like UBS, Ernst & Young, ING Group, Merrill Lynch, Touchstone Energy, London Stock Exchange, Birds Eye Walls, Canon, Elida Gibbs and Toyota Cars.  In 2005 he turned gamekeeper becoming Head of Corporate Marketing at Insight Investment (HBOS) before joining Noble in 2007. At Execution Noble he takes responsibility for all group marketing and brand development activities.