Our people

Betsy joined Greenbank in January 2021 and is an assistant investment manager. She started her career at Rathbones in September 2018, after graduating from The University of Manchester with a first class degree in Psychology. She spent her first year at Rathbones working with the anti-money laundering team. She then spent 15 months on the trainee rotation programme, gaining in-depth experience and knowledge of Rathbones by exposure to a variety of departments.

Betsy is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, having achieved the CISI Level 4 Investment Advice Diploma (Securities) in July 2020. She passed her Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 1 exam in July 2021.

James was one of the founding members of the Rathbones Newcastle office when it opened in the city in 2013. Prior to that he was a Director at UBS Wealth Management. He has 25 years investment industry experience and specialises in the management of all aspects of multi-generational family wealth. 

James graduated in Law from Newcastle University in 1998, holds the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI) Diploma and is a Chartered Fellow of the CISI. James is a current trustee of the St Mary the Virgin charity and a former trustee of the Great North Air Ambulance Service.

Thomas specialises in managing investment portfolios for private individuals, pensions, trusts and charities. Within Rathbones he sits on the Strategic Asset Allocation Committee.

Thomas joined Rathbones in May 2012, after graduating from the University of St Andrews with a honours degree in History. He is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charterholder and holds  a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

Simon is a regional director and the head of office for Edinburgh. He has managed investments for private individuals, trusts, pension funds and charities for 17 years and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments.

Simon began his investment career with Albert E. Sharp in 2001. After completing his training, he moved back north of the border to work at Brewin Dolphin in Edinburgh, before joining Rathbones in 2006. Simon looks after some £525m of client funds and chairs the Groups Self Invested Personal Pension Committee. The other investment directors on his team are John Gunn, Evangelos Assimakos and Keith Mackenzie. They are supported by client service executive Sarah Masterton-Hale. 

Kirsten assists Andy Pitt and Gareth Pearl with the administration of charity portfolios. She joined Rathbones early in 2017, after previously working for JP Morgan for over 10 years in client services.

Kirsten graduated from Edinburgh University with a BA (Hons) degree in Business Management.

Stuart works with Bryn Jones, assisting in the management of the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund and the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund. He is also the lead fund manager of the Rathbone High Quality Bond Fund. 

Stuart joined Rathbones in September 2017 and was made an Assistant Fund Manager in January 2020, then Fund Manager in January 2022. Previously, he gained three years industry experience at Brown Shipley.

He graduated from Bath University with a first-class Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He is a CFA Charterholder and also holds the CISI Chartered Wealth Manager qualification, having won the CISI Financial Markets & CISI Chartered Wealth Manager Qualification awards at the annual CISI awards in 2016 & 2017 respectively. He was named in the 2018 Citywire Top 30 under 30 investment management awards.

I am a member of the team that manages the IW&I AIM IHT Portfolio Plan for clients.

Grant has almost 20 years experience in the industry having joined Glasgow stockbrokers Stirling Hendry in 1995 whilst still at university. Starting on the firm's graduate trainee programme, he progressed to the role of investment manager looking after a variety of private clients, trusts and charities. Through a variety of mergers, the firm eventually became part of the Gerrard Group and Grant moved to Brewin Dolphin in 2005 and became an assistant director. He joined Rathbones in May 2015.

Grant is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments. Outside of the office, his interests are running and travel.

Simon's specialisms centre around pensions, investments, and long term tax planning. His clients are largely made up of barristers at a variety of chambers across the Inns of Court and solicitors at firms such as Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills, and Stephenson Harwood. He also helps accountants, entrepreneurs and some retired folks.

Simon loves bringing order and simplicity to his clients’ financial affairs, giving them the peace of mind that we have considered everything that they would otherwise need to think about themselves. His aim is to free up their time to allow them to focus on their own work, families and personal interests. Outside of work, Simon’s attention is on his wife and three young children, and planning holidays to visit their family around the world. He also tries to squeeze in a healthy dose of test cricket and southern hemisphere rugby.

Stuart joined Rathbones as a client service executive in April 2020 as part of the acquisition of the Barclays Wealth Court of Protection team.

Before joining Rathbones, Stuart held various roles in Barclays’ Retail, Corporate, Real Estate and Wealth divisions. Since his move to the Court of Protection team, Stuart has enjoyed supporting our clients and their deputies/trustees. He is currently studying for the CISI Investment & Advice qualification.

Away from work Stuart has two young children and is a keen sportsman with a golf handicap of 7.

I am a senior investment director, working in our specialist charities team based in London. I provide bespoke investment advice and management to a diverse group of charity clients, working closely with Trustees to create portfolios tailored to meet their objectives. I am passionate about sustainability and am a member of our environmental research group as well as sitting on our Collectives investment committee.

I help clients with some of the most important decisions they'll ever make regarding their financial future and take pleasure, and pride, in helping multi-generations of the same family. I take a great deal of care to ensure I fully understand my clients' financial circumstances and their future goals, to evolve and develop plans over time which deal with life changes. I manage investment portfolios on behalf of individuals, offshore bonds, trusts, companies and pensions, as well as managing funds on behalf of charities and not-for-profit organisations.