Westhouse Securities Senior Management
Christopher Getley
Chief Executive
Christopher joined Smith's in 2002 having previously been an institutional fund manager. At Morgan Grenfell he built an emerging market business largely for US pension fund clients and then at Cazenove he was the Director of Asian and Emerging Market investments. He became Chief Executive of Westhouse upon acquisition of Smith’s in late 2010.
Jonathan Azis
General Counsel & Company Secretary
Jonathan was previously an adviser to Lord Hanson having been a director, company secretary and tax manager of Hanson PLC. A solicitor, he is on the council of the Royal Albert Hall having been chairman of Molins plc and Isotron plc.
Grant Foley
Finance Director
Grant is a Chartered Accountant and joined Arbuthnot Securities (which merged with Westhouse in 2012) as Chief Operating Officer in September 2008. Previously, Grant was financial controller at Dawnay, Day International.
Prior to this, Grant was Corporate Reporting Manager at Nomura and before that, a divisional controller at Prudential-Bache International.
Bob Butler
Head of Trading
Bob was previously a trader on the London Metal Exchange before joining Kleinwort Benson in 1986 when they began market-making, where he served for 10 years trading equities, later in a director role. After spending two years at Sutherlands salestrading, he joined Investec in 1998 looking after the trading in corporate stocks before setting up the market making desk, where he was employed for 12 years.
Simon Wickham
Head of Sales
Joined Arbuthnot (which merged with Westhouse in 2012) in May 2009
Simon has fifteen years experience in UK Equity market.
Simon joined from Dresdner Kleinwort, (Director and Senior UK Equity Small and Mid Cap Sales).
Core Franchise with major UK long only Institutions in London and Edinburgh - as well as the select larger Hedge Funds.
Adam Lloyd
Head of Corporate Broking
Joined Arbuthnot (which merged with Westhouse in 2012) in September 2010
Over 25 years experience in UK Equities in both equity sales and corporate broking
Previously a Director of Corporate Broking at Evolution Securities
Formerly UK Equity sales with James Capel and Merrill Lynch specialising in UK small and Mid Cap companies
Adam is a serving member of the AIM Advisory Group
Dermot McKechnie
Head of Corporate Finance
Dermot graduated from Bristol University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand, now part of PwC. He joined Cazenove & Co in 1989, became a partner in 2000 and a Director of corporate finance following its incorporation and subsequent merger with the UK investment banking arm of JP Morgan. He has a broad range of corporate finance and corporate banking experience including mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings. Dermot joined Westhouse in summer 2010.