Our financial planning team

As a Senior Financial Planning Director, my priority is to help my clients achieve their financial goals. By understanding their current position, requirements and financial objectives, I help them to build a tailored financial plan that suits their present and future needs. I mostly specialise in providing detailed financial planning advice to individuals, in areas such as pensions, retirement income planning, inter-generational tax planning including trusts. To ensure the best possible outcome for my clients I work closely with Investment Managers and Rathbones' in-house research team to identify suitable retirement solutions, matching clients' risk profiles and objectives to investment portfolios that will deliver for them over the years.

Jack is a Chartered Financial Planner and a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. His role as a Financial Planning Assistant is to work closely with our Financial Planning Directors, assisting them in delivering suitable outcomes and financial advice to new and existing clients. He joined Rathbones in 2020 as a Client Service Executive and is working towards being a Financial Planner. He now has almost 5 years’ experience of assisting private clients and their families to achieve their financial goals and ambitions through a range of financial planning services including but not limited to: investment planning, retirement planning and estate planning.

Jack also holds the title of Master of Engineering (MEng). He obtained this when achieving a first-class Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Newcastle University. Prior to joining Rathbones, Jack lived in Newcastle and worked as a Chemical Engineer for a large manufacturing company, EGGER (UK) Ltd. EGGER is one of the leading manufacturers of wood based panels in the United Kingdom.

Jack currently lives in London but is from a small town just north of Manchester. Outside of work, Jack enjoys spending time with his fiancée, family, and friends. He is also is a keen fitness enthusiast and enjoys travelling the world, experiencing new places and cultures.

James is a Chartered Financial Planner, Fellow of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).  James recently joined Rathbones Financial Planning and has over 20 years’ experience of helping people grow, protect and enjoy their wealth, sometimes over several generations. 

James has worked for a number of Investment Management Firms, most recently Killik & Co., where he mentored and developed new planners alongside managing his own advice team.  He has also enjoyed more technical roles at Coutts, supporting advisors to provide complex at retirement advice to wealthy individuals and families.