13 January
2025
Pollen Street Group
Limited
("Pollen
Street Group" or the "Company")
Crispin Goldsmith joins
Pollen Street as Chief Financial Officer
13 January 2025: Pollen Street Group
Limited, the purpose-led alternative asset manager, announces that
Crispin Goldsmith has joined the Company as its new Chief Financial
Officer and will be a member of the Company's Executive
Committee.
Crispin joins Pollen Street with a
breadth of experience as a public company CFO, private equity
investor and from corporate finance advisory. Most recently,
Crispin served as Group CFO and Chief Strategy Officer at eEnergy
Group Plc for four years, helping the company to substantially
increase revenues through strong organic growth and strategic
acquisitions. Prior to this, Crispin was Group Strategy and
Corporate Development Director at Dixons Carphone Plc, having
previously been an Investment Director at private equity business
Duke Street.
Earlier in his career, Crispin was a
Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Special Opportunities Fund
where he worked with several members of the leadership team,
helping manage a £1.1bn fund targeting structured equity
investments in European and North American companies.
Lindsey McMurray, Chief Executive
Officer, commented:
"We are delighted to welcome Crispin to Pollen Street as our
new Chief Financial Officer; his experience will be invaluable in
this role. Crispin is well known to me and several members of our
leadership team as we have worked together previously. We know that
he will hit the ground running, which will be critical as we
continue to deliver our strategy and growth plans. I look forward
to working with him."
For further information about this
announcement please contact:
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Pollen Street Group
Limited
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Corporate Development
Director
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Shweta.Chugh@pollencap.com
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+44 (0) 7813 58 1377
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Link Company Matters
Limited
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Company Secretary
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Polncosec@linkgroup.co.uk
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FGS Global
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Communications Advisor
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Chris.sibbald@fgsglobal.com
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+44 (0) 7855 95 5531
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Barclays Bank plc
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Joint broker
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Neal West / Stuart Muress
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+44 (0) 20 7623 2323
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Investec Bank plc
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Joint broker
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Ben Griffiths / Kamalini Hull
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+44 (0) 20 7597 4000
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LEI: 894500LP94M98N8CY487
About Pollen Street Group Limited
Pollen Street is an alternative
asset manager dedicated to investing within the financial and
business services sectors across both Private Equity and Private
Credit strategies. The business was founded in 2013 and has
consistently delivered top tier returns alongside growing
AuM.
Pollen Street benefits from a
complementary set of asset management activities focused on
managing third-party AuM (the "Asset Manager") together with
on-balance sheet investments (the "Investment Company").
The Asset Manager raises capital
from high quality investors and deploys it into its Private Equity
and Private Credit strategies. The strong recurring revenues from
this business enable delivery of scalable growth.
The Investment Company invests in
the strategies of the group delivering attractive risk adjusted
returns and accelerating growth in third-party AuM of the Asset
Manager through investing in Pollen Street funds, taking advantage
of attractive investment opportunities and aligning interest with
our investors to grow AuM. Today the portfolio is largely invested
in credit assets with the allocation to Private Equity expect to
increase to 30 per cent in the long term. The portfolio consists of
both direct investments and investments in funds managed by Pollen
Street.
POLN is listed on the London Stock
Exchange (ticker symbol: POLN). Further details are available
at www.pollenstreetgroup.com.
