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Richard has spent the last 6 years at Santander as a Relationship Director covering the Corporate and Commercial markets. Richard brings a wealth of experience within the banking and finance industry, having previously worked at Deutsche Bank, NatWest and HSBC.
At ThinCats, Richard is responsible for supporting deals across the South West and Wales where he works alongside the business community delivering funding solutions for growing regional businesses.
Richard Bowles
Senior Relationship DirectorRichard 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.
Richard Henshaw
Head of HealthcareHaving 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.
Stuart Thompson
Head of Transitional CapitalBrian brings over 30 years’ experience within financial services, covering roles in credit sanctioning, business development and relationship roles in corporate and commercial banking. Brian joins us from NatWest Bank where he was a Credit Manager for Commercial Credit in the Midlands South West and Wales region.
Brian works closely with the Business Development team, local advisors and businesses to help shape funding across the Midlands and South West.
Brian Don
Regional Head of Credit, Midlands and South WestRichard Thwaite joins us from Santander where he worked in the Structured Finance and Growth Capital team, before which he worked at HSBC in Corporate Banking.
Richard is based in Cheltenham and helps drive our presence and activity in the South West and Midlands region.
