Personal and local

Dave has spent his career building relationships and securing new business. Working within the financial services sector his entire career he has spent time growing entrepreneurial SME businesses and leading sales teams for multi-national banks. His recent focus has been centred around fundraising for SMEs enabling them to fulfil their ambitions of growth and productivity in a benign lending environment. 

Dave heads up the sales team across London and the South from the London office, overseeing the growth of ThinCats’ loan book.

Prior to joining ThinCats, Dave led all new business across London for Santander, serving SME businesses. He previously worked at RBS helping build the partnerships book at RBS Insurance (Direct Line) leading up to their IPO.

Having worked for a number of high street banks, Stuart has seen the traditional lenders limit their appetite for SME cashflow lending. With a pragmatic approach and the ability to make quick decisions, he believes that Thincats are well positioned to support an underserved SME market - Stuart particularly enjoys working with management teams to provide finance to support their business needs and growth aspirations.
Stuart works to develop relationships with key finance professionals including brokers, accountants and corporate financiers along with Private Equity, to support SMEs in their growth ambitions, covering both London and Reading.
Stuart has 11 years’ experience in banking, working with SMEs and mid-market businesses across a number of industries, most recently for RBS and Clydesdale. He has provided finance to support event driven transactions such as management buy outs, acquisitions, growth finance and refinance.

Richard is passionate about supporting a sector of the economy that desperately needs better funding options. He has significant experience from both sides of healthcare, and so is very keen to support good operators in the sector who are looking to grow, but are being badly let down by traditional lenders.

Richard’s role is to raise ThinCats’ profile in the healthcare sector and lead the launch of the healthcare fund, focussing on providing lending options to residential, nursing and dementia care homes as well as the many specialist care homes in the field. 

Richard comes with more than twenty years of experience across financial services and healthcare, including 13 years with RBS and AIB, and eight years with healthcare specialist brokers, Chandler & Co. Additionally, Richard has six years’ direct experience as a care home owner.

Counteracting a lack of appetite from traditional lenders, Gary believes that offering flexibility, a flat decision making structure and speed of delivery to otherwise overlooked businesses with strong credit metrics is where ThinCats’ strengths lie.

Gary is responsible for the origination, transaction and delivery of debt solutions to strong and ambitious SMEs and mid corporate clients, who are requiring a fresh approach to funding and seeking to grow both organically and/or by acquisition.  He brings an extensive network of key business contacts active within Corporate Finance, Business and Debt Advisory, and Private Equity.

Gary has 32 years banking experience.  He has supported SMEs and Mid-Corporate businesses within a variety of industries, including over 15 years within leveraged and structured finance, providing bespoke funding packages to support LBOs, MBOs, acquisitions and other cashflow lending propositions. Gary came to ThinCats from AIB where he was Director of Structured Finance, and previously held the role of Regional Head of Corporate Transactions Team at RBS.