Senior Management

Alex Abadie, Chief Executive Officer of Shore Capital Limited

Alex has more than 20 years financial experience in New York, Paris, London and Zurich. Prior to joining Shore Capital, he was Managing Director, Global Head of Products, Investment Solutions and Marketing, in the Asset Management Division of Credit Suisse, where he was responsible globally for structuring all new investment products and providing customised solutions to insurance and pensions clients.  He was also a Board Member of Credit Suisse Asset Management Ltd and a Management Committee member of the Asset Management Division. Prior to Credit Suisse, Alex was Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions Global Capital Markets, at Morgan Stanley in London. Alex has a Master of Science (MS) from Stanford University, a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Chicago and a Senior Management Programme (SMG) certificate from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. 

Rupert Armitage, Head of Stockbroking Sales

Rupert joined Shore Capital in 1988 after a degree in management and a period working in his family's business. He leads the institutional and private client sales teams, and is also qualified as a registered market-maker. He became a director of Shore Capital Stockbrokers in 1995.

Dr Clive Black, Head of Research

Clive is one of the UK's top five stockbroking analysts in food and drug retailing. He was rated first for coverage of smaller companies in this sector in the last Reuters' survey. Clive holds a PhD. from the Queen's University of Belfast, his thesis being on the Northern Ireland food industry. He worked in London for the National Farmers' Union for five years and then joined Northern Foods plc. He moved into stockbroking research with Charterhouse Tilney where he was for eight years when it latterly became ING Financial Markets. He joined Shore Capital in 2003 as head of research.

Simon Fine, Head of Equity Capital Markets

Simon joined Shore Capital in 2002 as Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets, responsible for all aspects of trading and brokerage as well as the integration of related corporate broking activities. He is the former Managing Director and Co-head of Pan European Equity Cash Trading at Lehman Brothers. Prior to that, Simon spent the previous 14 years at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, most recently as Head of Pan European Equity Cash Trading - developing its UK operations into one of the leading players in the UK and German equities.

Eamonn Flanagan, Head of the Liverpool Office

Eamonn is one of the UK's top ten stockbroking analysts in the insurance and specialty finance sectors, and was rated second for coverage of smaller companies in these sectors in the last Reuters' survey. After a degree in mathematics, he qualified as an actuary with Royal Insurance where he worked for nine years; he is now a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He moved into stockbroking research with Charterhouse Tilney where he was for nine years when it latterly became ING Financial Markets. He joined Shore Capital in 2003 as head of the Liverpool office.

Thomas Marlinghaus, Chief Operating Officer of Shore Capital International

Thomas graduated with a degree in business administration and began his career at Berliner Bank, where he became an investment manager in the bank's private equity unit. In 1995, he joined a family-owned private equity and management group as managing director. In this role, Thomas acted as the CFO of ProMarkt, at the time Germany's second largest consumer electronic retail chain, which was sold to Kingfisher in 1998. Thomas was also directly responsible for identifying acquisition and disposal opportunities including in real estate. Thomas is Chief  Operating Officer of Shore Capital's German team and also responsible for asset management.

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Consultants

Mike Orsborn, Consultant

Mike was the youngest partner of Tilney when this long established stockbroking partnership was taken over at Big Bang and has been involved in all its major activities over the 30 years 1972-2001. He was the joint managing director of Charterhouse Tilney and ran its stockbroking activities for many years, becoming a deputy Chairman of Charterhouse Securities. He joined Shore Capital as a consultant in 2003.