About Us
Our People
CORE TEAM
ADVISORY BOARD
Julian Rogers-Coltman
CHAIRMAN
Julian started his career at GNI Ltd in 1982 where he spent 15 years working in and eventually running their Financial Futures division. In 2001, after the sale of the company to Old Mutual, he was appointed CEO of GNI, which employed over 450 staff globally at that time. In 2002, GNI was sold to Man Financial and in 2003 Julian left to become CEO of Fleming Capital Management, a hedge fund seeding platform established by Fleming Family and Partners, the largest multi-family office in the UK. FCM built AUM to c. $500m by 2008 in 4 equity long/short funds but in 2012, a strategic change of direction led to the business being closed and Julian became a consultant to FF&P Corporate Advisory Group. In 2015, following the merger of FF&P with Stonehage, Julian left to establish his own consultancy business, focussing on aiding smaller companies with their strategic direction and capital raising. In 2019, Julian joined London and Oxford Group as Chairman.
Paul Newton
FOUNDER
Paul spent the first part of his career working for large financial institutions, namely the Bank of America NT&SA and Swiss Bank Corporation where, at the time of leaving, he was the Head of Special Transactions. While establishing London & Oxford Group as a niche investment banking operation, he has been responsible for several ground-breaking transactions and has built up many senior level contacts within the investment banking and asset management sector. He graduated from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford with an MA in Chemistry.
Sijia Wang
CEO
Sijia is the Director of London & Oxford Group and is the key investment banking contact serving Chinese private companies and high net worth individuals. Previously, she was Head of Asian Markets at Valbury Capital. Sijia graduated from Queen Mary, University of London with an MSc in International Finance.
Endre Sagi
ADVISORY BOARD
Endre Sagi is founder and general partner at Inference Partners. Inference Partners is an independent technology investment firm exclusively focused on early stage infrastructure software investments. Key focus areas include data & machine learning infrastructure, cybersecurity, capital markets & payment infrastructure and blockchain technologies.
Endre holds an Engineering Degree in Computer Science with specialization in Data Science from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and an MBA from London Business School with a specialization in Finance and Private Equity.
Hammer Zhu
ADVISORY BOARD
Hammer is a senior adviser to the London and Oxford group of companies and has over 26 years of industry experience working for one of the largest global investment and construction groups, China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC).
His expertise extends to Construction, Infrastructure Investment, as well as Property and Investment management, and has worked in numerous markets including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, UAE and the UK.
Hammer has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Automation, as well as International Project Management, from Tianjin University, China.
He also holds numerous industry qualifications and certifications issued by the Ministry of Construction P.R.China and the Construction Industry Training Authority of Hong Kong.
John Macpherson
ADVISORY BOARD
John Macpherson is a senior adviser to the London and Oxford group of companies. John’s background in leading electronic trading and derivatives at JP Morgan and then Goldman Sachs, led him to the world of FinTech. He led BMLL Technologies as CEO, through its Series A investment round before starting his own consultancy and advisory firm. John is the acting Chair of the Investment Association Engine accelerator and works alongside a number of the member firms. Prior to his time in finance John served in the armed forces.
Jack Lang
ADVISORY BOARD
Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and Business Angel. He is also the former chairman of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and was part of the original Pi Team.
He holds a degree in Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge, was an affiliated lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, a Director of Studies in Management and a By Fellow at Emmanuel College.
Jack is also the author of ‘The High-Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook’. He includes molecular gastronomy among his many interests outside of the boardroom or the classroom.
Dylan Tudor-Williams
HEAD OF REAL ESTATE
Dylan Tudor-Williams is a Chartered Surveyor with 20 years experience in real estate, primarily Investment Management on behalf of International Institutions and UHNWI’s. Director at BNP Paribas, Partner at Strutt & Parker working within Property Wealth Management. Extensive experience in real estate investment, finance, corporate structuring, portfolio and asset management across all commercial sectors.Dylan graduated from Kingston University and holds a post graduate Diploma in Investment & Portfolio Management from the IPF and University of Cambridge.
AKM Ismail
advisory board
A seasoned banker with over 20 years’ experience in cross-border deals and project financing, including a number of significant real estate transactions. He has an extensive network of high-level contacts in the Far East and South East Asia. He graduated from National University of Singapore with a B.R. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Emmanuel Blouin
SENIOR ADVISER
Formerly an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and with 15 years of banking and property experience with other institutions including Paribas in London, Paris, New York, Prague and Moscow, Emmanuel graduated from HEC Paris with a Major in Finance. Emmanuel’s experience and skills set is wide ranging and includes advisory and board roles with a number of listed companies.
Henry Blyth
ADVISORY BOARD
Henry brings to London and Oxford significant experience of investment analysis, asset manager compliance, board level appointments and advisory roles. Henry has degrees from The Queen’s College Oxford (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and the University of London (Law).
Dr Chaiyakorn Yingsaeree
CFO
At London & Oxford Group, Chaiyakorn is responsible for fund and quantitative risk management. He worked at the US hedge fund Citadel in New York where he was responsible for high frequency trading and arbitrage strategies, as well as software development. Dr Yingsaeree graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London.
Ben-Hur Baraki
CFO
Ben has considerable experience in commercial and residential property sales, asset management and off market development projects. A senior commercial investment manager with a Canary Wharf estate agency for the past seven years, Ben is an excellent communicator driven by business needs and experienced in innovative business solutions.
Pei Wu
PARTNER FAMILY OFFICE
Pei has many years of investment experience in Private Equity and Family Offices in China. She was VP for healthcare investments at New Hope Group and was a founding member of China Entrepreneur’s Club in Beijing, at which she coordinated a private network of over 100 billionaire entrepreneurs. Pei holds a Master of Finance from Renmin University of China and an Executive MBA from Peking University.
Richard Divall
Head OF CAPITAL
As Head of Cross Border Capital Markets, Richard leads the company’s expansion into private equity and alternative asset management.
He brings over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry to London & Oxford Group,  joining the company from Colliers, where he was the business leader of a team of over 300 capital market advisors in the EMEA region for 10 years and was responsible for generating over €10 billion in investment volumes. Prior to that, Divall was a partner at Strutt & Parker LLP, where he advised major UK institutions and property companies on acquisitions and sales.
Richard is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a sought-after keynote speaker. He has sat on numerous panels at international real estate conferences, including The Global Property Conference in Toronto, Cityscape Global in Dubai, PERE Global Investor Forum in Hong Kong, and MIPIM Europe.
Kam Fai Tai
ADVISORY BOARD
Kam is an internationally acclaimed architect with over 20 years’ experience globally including major work in Beijing for OMA and at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 extension for Forster and Partners. He has led the SURE Architecture team to complete many large projects in Asia and the UK. Kam was educated at Oxford (MMPM St. Hugh’s), Sheffield (M. Arch) and Tsinghua (B.Arch). He is experienced in development, management, and investment of property projects, particularly in the UK and China. His expertise and knowledge will undoubtedly be invaluable to our team. Â
Justin Gray
HEAD OF DIGITAL MARKETING
Information coming soon
Fabian Huang
ADVISORY BOARD
Fabian is a modern digital strategist, and technologist focusing on human brilliance experience design and futurism sensory AI experiences.
His core experience includes being the Global Managing Director/Board of an A.I. US$300M Tech Fund, Chief Marketing Officer/Board of an Enterprise A.I. Company (US$350M) invested by Byte Dance, Deloitte Digital’s Managing Partner, and was a Global Client Service Partner, Global Markets Partner at Ernst & Young in London. He was also the Executive Creative Director for a global top 5 creative agency in Asia, and the Chief Creative Officer at a FTSE250 $4Billion listed company in the United Kingdom.
At London Oxford Group, Fabian is responsible for the Technology Advisory and Accelerator business unit where he is focused on investing, scale-up and digital accelerating the last 1% to growth for growth-stage companies.
Tyler Wang
Senior Partner
At London Oxford Group, Tyler is responsible for the Technology Advisory and Accelerator business unit where he is focused on investing, scale-up and digital accelerating the last 1% to growth for growth-stage companies.
His core experience includes being the Global Managing Director/Board of an A.I. US$300M Tech Fund, Overseas Markets/Board of an Enterprise A.I. Company (US$350M) invested by Byte Dance.
As a 25+ year veteran in technology, he was previously the CEO of Alibaba Cloud in EMEA region, and member of Alibaba Group Management Committee. Also, as the country leader for Huawei Italy, France, and Global Account Leader for Hutchison, Tyler had first-hand practices in growing the business from 0 to 1, managing multi-cultural teams, solving Go-To-Market problems, and scaling up technology businesses to greater than USD 1B.
In addition, Tyler led successfully highly complex digital venture models which includes media, new retail and fintech solutions. Tyler is also very active on the global speaking circuit advising the strength of the blending of the Eastern and Western digital models.
Richard Tan
HEAD OF LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE
Richard is a qualified lawyer who was admitted to the U.K. and Singapore Bar. He holds LLM degree in International Business Law from UCL and MSc degree in Financial Regulation and Compliance Management from London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan University). Richard has a vast experience working at various credit and financial institutions in the City of London holding senior positions.
Orapun Parapob
ADVISORY BOARD
Over her 20-year-career as a Human Resources Management and Organization Development Consultant, Orapun has established lasting, trust-based relationships with C-level leaders across multiple sectors in the Southeast Asia market.
Orapun’s educational background is in organization psychology, graduating her MA with Distinction Thesis Recognition from the Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University. Orapun also holds a First-Class Honours BA from the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Her multi-disciplinary knowledge and unique skills in solution design, delivery, and project management make her a valued and sought-after subject matter expert in her field of Human Resources Management and Organization Development. Orapun is a consultant/advisor to many companies in Thailand, she is a lecturer at Mahidol University, International College, and she also is sought after as a trainer in her field for various organizations.  Orapun is the founder and Managing Director of her own consultancy business, BeeU Consultancy.